Example sentences of "be making [adj] progress " in BNC.

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1 Still not complete , but we have reviewed that and we 're making good progress .
2 LESTER Piggott 's chances of renewing his famous Derby partnership with Vincent O'Brien increased yesterday as Fatherland was reported to be making good progress from injury .
3 Shortly after the invasion began , Iraq appeared to be making significant progress , but then unaccountably relaxed its grip .
4 THE DARLINGTON Railway Preservation Group have been making good progress on their principal asset Standard 2MT Mogul No 78018 .
5 ‘ We 've been making great progress . ’
6 We have been making great progress as people sometimes prefer to talk to civilians . ’
7 But in the Soviet Union , physicists have been making steady progress for 10 years in speeding up QCD calculations .
8 I mean these people have had a pay freeze since November nineteen ninety and these grievances were as a result of a new pay structure last year that actually worsened the terms and conditions since nineteen ninety , but till then we 've been making steady progress in getting better improvements and we 've gone backwards .
9 The Free French group , however , had been making excellent progress and were well on the way to becoming operational .
10 I am making good progress — slow but sure — and have now graduated on to walking sticks , although I feel very wobbly on these having had the crutches for a month .
11 Britain and several other Western countries are making good progress in curbing CFC usage .
12 Technologies such as ‘ Silver II ’ , for the destruction of organic wastes , are also attracting international interest as an alternative to incineration , and we are making good progress with contracts for aspects of waste management in Japan .
13 Sorry it was another long hard meeting but we are making good progress and I think by the end of our next one when we 've revised most of the procedures we 'll be well placed .
14 However , as my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon so lucidly explained , we are making great progress in reducing those waiting lists .
15 The first sign that you are making real progress in learning to fly is that such mishaps become rarer and , eventually , uncommon despite the model not having been changed in any way .
16 The impression that the being would take home is that Earthlings are making reasonable progress in rudimentary aspects of space science and technology ; that the world is keen to spread the benefits of such studies from the industrialised to the developing world ; and that all work in space science and technology follows the lead set by farsighted government bureaucrats and politicians .
17 What are the signs that tell us whether or not we are making genuine progress in a particular area of study ?
18 We are making fast progress till suddenly a black van pulls out of a lane twenty yards ahead , brakes , and spills a sackful of coppers out the back .
19 They are making satisfactory progress .
20 It is all too easy to assume that if you improve your performance by 5% a year , you are making satisfactory progress .
21 We are making steady progress , of which the country should be proud .
22 And already we are making heartening progress .
23 Happily , we are making excellent progress on inflation .
24 QTs were delighted to hear that both and are making excellent progress and sent them our warmest wishes .
25 We are making slow progress .
26 We are making slow progress today .
27 With a circuit to race Nick The Brief was pulled up , and though Desert Orchid continued to dispute the lead with Ten Of Spades as the runners went away from the stands for the second circuit Toby Tobias and Norton 's Coin were making noticeable progress through the field .
28 In the meantime , he said , the French were making genuine progress in building up native forces although it would be some years before the Vietnamese would be competent to defend themselves .
29 Optimistic leaks had it that the negotiators were making good progress on a statement of ‘ principles ’ .
30 Mr. and Mrs. Harvey , the master and matron , were both away on sick leave in the early months of 1900 , and the Board received a letter from their general practitioner , Mr. C. G.Johnson , to say that they were making good progress and that he recommended continuing the champagne which had contributed to their recovery .
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