Example sentences of "is [verb] [det] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its chief executive , Neville Bain , said he is seeing many more inquiries from retailers currently buying from Far Eastern producers , while some continental suppliers which had been undercutting British producers are being forced to increase prices . |
| 2 | Increasingly detailed help pages will be displayed if the key is pressed several more times ; the complete screen will be used for these , temporarily replacing the original page . |
| 3 | It may be difficult to explain why a few minutes spent reading fourteen lines of Shakespeare should be a higher pleasure than reading an equivalent length of a James Bond story , but the analyses of literary criticism elucidate how in the former case one is living those few minutes in intensified awareness with an extraordinarily extended span , from the texture of the words sounding in one 's inner ear to the remotest implications for the living of one 's whole life . |
| 4 | So it is good news that Sir Bryan Carsberg , new Director General of Fair Trading , is questioning both these practices . |
| 5 | The IRAS survey is finding many such areas of star formation in our own Milky Way galaxy too . |
| 6 | Whereas your voice er is carrying all all sorts of wonderful . |
| 7 | When an extra radiator is fitted all these valves may have to be adjusted , as the available water has to be reallocated between the increased number of radiators . |
| 8 | Newark wanted to take it forward and er I went and talked to them and I said to them you 're not really appropriate , what you want is to recruit some more specials |
| 9 | This company is planning more such ventures , notably ‘ The Pilgrim 's Way ’ in a Canterbury church and ‘ The Oxford Story ’ in Oxford . |