Example sentences of "[is] going [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter , a 55-year-old distribution engineer at the plant , says his wife believes he is going through a second childhood . |
| 2 | Russia is going through a critical phase which will determine its political future . |
| 3 | The hole-in-the-wall tie and scarf retailer is going through a sticky patch in its drive to adorn the world 's necks . |
| 4 | This is not always easy , especially when the relationship is going through a sticky patch , but if they can feel close from time to time , the pulling-back will happen less , and Elizabeth could reassure Harry that just because she wants to do things for herself does n't mean that she does n't want him . |
| 5 | ‘ I have recalled Browning because Taylor is going through a sticky spell , ’ said Rovers manager Dennis Rofe . |
| 6 | He is going through a dry patch at the moment as he has won only on match in the five tournaments he has played so far this year but I am sure he will work his way back again , he has got it in him . |
| 7 | The promotions business is going through a rocky time , and the Hoover jinx has now hit the Coca Cola Co in the UK , the Guardian reports : customer services at the company 's British headquarters are besieged with callers believing they have won Sega Enterprises Ltd games machines because one batch of bottles appears to make every purchaser a winner ; any bottle cap with the letter M , G or B printed on it wins a Sega prize , but the problem batch have all three letters inside the cap as part of a code to identify consignments , and the company is having to spend thousands of pounds on advertising to make it quite clear that its only caps with only one of the letters that win , and that all three are no good . |
| 8 | The fact that the Sun is producing far less of these enigmatic particles than expected could well be a symptom that it is going through a quiescent period — although it could equally well be that there is something wrong with our theories concerning what makes the Sun shine . |
| 9 | With record repossession figures , house prices that are at best static , and interest rates still uncomfortably high , the property-owning democracy is going through a rough period . |
| 10 | There is no doubt that agriculture is going through a difficult transition period , continually hampered by a serious lack of direction and strategy from Brussels . |
| 11 | The key to delighting in God is going through a constant process of sublimation . |
| 12 | A second KSR1 is going to a General Notors Corp lab in Detroit for development and conversion of systems management tools . |
| 13 | A second KSR1 is going to a General Motors Corp lab in Detroit for development and conversion of systems management tools . |
| 14 | So I 'm particularly pleased this morning that the award is going to a young woman and I 'm equally more pleased that it 's going to a young woman from the Lancashire Region . |
| 15 | The Runners ' sponsorship is going to a wide variety of charities including Alzheimer 's Disease Research , Breakthrough ( research into breast cancer ) , Mencap and the West Sussex Macmillan Appeal for Cancer Research . |
| 16 | Now 7 years after the Morgans took over the site , the matter is going to a public inquiry . |
| 17 | LINFORD CHRISTIE is going for a golden Grand Slam in a bid to rival Carl Lewis as the greatest sprinter on earth . |
| 18 | PeopleSoft Inc is going for a secondary public offering of 1.55m shares for general corporate purposes including working capital . |
| 19 | He remembered every word : Dear Mr Cohen , Do you know that your son Jacob is going with a Christian girl ? |
| 20 | Now this , is this is going at a fantastic rate . |
| 21 | I do n't get the impression from MIND 's local network that the hospital closure programme is going at a reasonable pace . ’ |
| 22 | Right , B two if a train is going at a constant speed of ninety miles per hour how far will it go in two hours ? |
| 23 | so that 's going for a hundred and thirty pounds |
| 24 | using it at the same rate but it 's going for a longer time . |
| 25 | Right it takes two hours it 's going at a steady sixty , great , so we know that 's a hundred and sixty . |
| 26 | It 's going at a steady speed . |
| 27 | Everyone knows — Pepe says he 's going on a foreign tour and wo n't be back for months . |
| 28 | ‘ Sam 's going to a new school , ’ Bella said , and time was oddly foreshortened in Albert 's head so that two or three minutes of silence passed between them and he thought it only a second . |
| 29 | So I 'm particularly pleased this morning that the award is going to a young woman and I 'm equally more pleased that it 's going to a young woman from the Lancashire Region . |
| 30 | And I 'm more pleased that it 's going to a young member in the textiles section because that 's a very difficult section . |