Example sentences of "be [v-ing] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The HDZ government of Croatia had been building its own army : it had 35,000 police units of which 25,000 were in the reserves and 10,000 belong to special units . |
| 2 | The cider and wine company has been building its soft drinks portfolio with the acquisitions of the Piermont and Sorelle brands earlier this year . |
| 3 | The human rights organization Amnesty International claimed in a report published on Jan. 10 that torture and summary executions by the Senegalese security forces were becoming more common in the southern region of Casamance , where a separatist movement had been intensifying its armed struggle since mid-1990 [ see pp. 37799-800 ] . |
| 4 | While the NHS has been developing its computerized data-bases and information systems for general hospitals with astonishing rapidity , community care services lag far behind . |
| 5 | Amperif , a long-time player in the Unisys Corp storage subsystems business — it has not always enjoyed an easy relationship with Unisys — has been developing its own disk array product under the code-name Viking . |
| 6 | And while it is BPX-GOM 's first third-party agreement to remotely operate and produce from a subsea gas well , the Offshore Division has been operating its own satellite gas well , High Island A-587 , since 1991 . |
| 7 | Fresh from its triumphant trawl through Liberal affairs , as it were , the Fourth Estate has been turning its prurient attention to the amours of Mr Phillip Schofield , the televisioniste turned stage performer . |
| 8 | Since Win/U is modular , it has been selling its Postscript-based XPrinter and hypertext-style HyperHelp modules separately , the latter for $19,500 as a source code site license , $2,500 for run-time . |
| 9 | Oxfam , the charity founded by an Oxford University professor and a Church of England vicar , has been marking its 50th anniversary . |
| 10 | At a ceremony attended by Chris Green , managing director of InterCity , locomotive 91003 which operates on the high-speed East Coast route will be given the name of this newspaper which has been celebrating its 175th anniversary . |
| 11 | During the course of this year WASL has been celebrating its ten years of public service . |
| 12 | The call came yesterday from Peter Seaman , the new president of the National Federation of Retail Newsagents , which this week has been holding its annual conference in Llandudno . |
| 13 | The Ridgeway is one of the oldest routes in the world , man and beast has been travelling its 85 mile length from Wiltshire to Buckinghamshire for at least 4,000 years . |
| 14 | Terry Shannon also suspects that R&D cutbacks at DEC are threatening its two-year-old effort to produce an architecture-independent version of OpenVMS . |
| 15 | No one was available from National Networks for comment , but it is understood that the company will be building its own trunk network instead . |
| 16 | Motorola will be building its own line of handheld devices around the chip , which costs $28.20 when you order 10,000 or more of the 16MHz version . |
| 17 | Sun Microsystems Inc will be building its next-generation workstations and servers out of a family of 64-bit multiprocessor chips that it is designing called UltraSparc , and the chips should take Sun machines close to the end of the decade . |
| 18 | Sun Microsystems Inc will be building its next-generation workstations and servers out of a family of 64-bit multiprocessor chips it 's designing called UltraSparc . |
| 19 | DEC will be porting its strategic Rdb/VMS relational database to Alpha VMS and OSF/1 platforms . |
| 20 | Unidata Inc , which has opened a new office in Saint Cloud near Paris , says it will be porting its relational database to DEC 's Alpha RISC . |
| 21 | The Institute should be sponsoring its own research in this area and encouraging UK companies to try it for themselves . |
| 22 | He was a rational man and a police officer , but No. 22 seemed obstinately to be producing its own evidence . |
| 23 | Founder member of the consortium , CPRW , has already pledged £5,000 and will be launching its own appeal through its magazine next month . |
| 24 | Hoare said last night it now expected to be trimming its full year forecast back from the £30m pencilled in so far . |
| 25 | Commenting on the thirty one thousand , er Mr 's erm er scenario , that the County Council would clearly think this to be erm unreasonable , it would clearly have regional implications er as I said earlier er in my opening remarks er the County Council would accept that it would n't be meeting its regional commitments , erm er it would be difficult in practice bearing in mind the level erm of commitment we 've got and there may well be local problems in in local housing markets with the level of er of growth er at that level . |
| 26 | If the purpose of the law is to protect women from acts of sexual intercourse to which they have not in fact consented , whether by reason of force actually applied , physical or other threat , or fear induced by the accused or by others , then the relevant question would appear to be : Did this particular woman , in these particular circumstances , submit to this particular man ; or did she in fact freely consent to have intercourse with him ? … if the law deems the woman to have consented to the act despite ample evidence of threats which rendered her submissive but non-consenting , then the law can not be said to be serving its true function of protecting individuals from the imposition of non-consensual sexual intercourse . ’ |
| 27 | Ceausescu 's aim in issuing such a threat was probably to frighten Hungary , but Romania already has the delivery system in the form of Soviet built Scud missiles and is believed to be developing its own missile with the help of Egypt and Iraq . |
| 28 | The most fundamental objection is that the government could be ignoring its long-term obligation to manage the debt cheaply in favour of short-term gains . |
| 29 | Next week , the Royal Air Force will be celebrating its seventy-fifth birthday . |
| 30 | QUEEN 'S ladies ' boat club will be celebrating its 25th anniversary from the start of the new season . |