Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [verb] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A NEW breed of telephone is helping create 41 new jobs at the Darlington operation of telecommunications group Hutchison . |
| 2 | This can ( and occasionally did ) lead to a situation in which a linguist claims that the ‘ data ’ he is using illustrates acceptable linguistic strings because he says it does , as a result of personal introspection , and regardless of how many voices arise in disagreement . |
| 3 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA is looking to cut another 3,000 jobs from its global payroll of about 35,000 , chairman Bernard Pache said yesterday as he presented the figures for 1992 ( see page six ) . |
| 4 | The Communist Party is seeking to develop radical socialist politics in Britain . |
| 5 | A prison governor is refusing to accept any more remand prisoners because accomodation for unconvicted inmates has reached bursting point . |
| 6 | One particularly interesting example is the Ivy Leaved Cryptocoryne which he is growing using three different methods . |
| 7 | Er , to expend money on a project over , that is going to last thirty forty years , and expect the people today to pay for it . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't suppose ‘ none of your business ’ is going to do much good , is it ? ’ |
| 9 | They 've had a practice match this morning , and every striker in the club is going to do some finishing this afternoon . |
| 10 | Lack of thought about what is going to replace all this is a common mistake . |
| 11 | Now , of course , we got problems now where they 've all been abolished and is virtually on a voluntary basis , and I say , it 'll be rather interesting to see whether Lamont actually is going to release some more money , cos you probably realise at the moment they 're cutting back on that particular budget . |
| 12 | If you think your — your wonderful offer is going to sound any better coming from you than from that — that pig — ’ |
| 13 | None of this suggests that the NUAAW is going to sanction any widespread militant activity other than a little judicious sabre-rattling by its left-wing faction during negotiations on the AWB . |
| 14 | However , if England do progress beyond the opening round — and with the first two from each group plus the four best third-placed teams going through , it is going to take some wretched performances to fail — they will then travel to Bologna , Genoa or Turin for the second phase , with the prospect of visits to Naples , Rome or Florence in the quarter-finals . |
| 15 | However , if England do progress beyond the opening round — and with the first two from each group plus the four best third-placed teams going through , it is going to take some wretched performances to fail — they will then travel to Bologna , Genoa or Turin for the second phase , with the prospect of visits to Naples , Rome or Florence in the quarter-finals . |
| 16 | But this log-jam is going to take some more than human effort , however sincere and weighty , to break through . |
| 17 | Well , well I think I would , I would rath it I mean i it they 've got the responsibility to whistle blow now , you know , professional they 've got , er you know , they 're they these are professionals and they should , they should whistle blow and I mean Maxwell is a perfect example of how nobody , nobody blew the whistle and if you read through the writs , those lots of these people knew what were what was happening an and the whistle should have been blown and I see no reason why the why the pension regulator is going to get any different , different response and also I mean really these people are being in many cases given by th given information by their clients , you know , and I think it 's a very difficult situation to turn round to , to somebody like Mr Maxwell and say well look I 'm terribly sorry Mr Maxwell , we 're going to report you to the pensions regulator , you know and I think that , that er you will just find that that I just do n't feel that the pension regulator in , in that respect , I mean I , I think that I might like to if Peter suggested a pension fraud squad that , that had a open telephone line and the same sort of er powers as the Serious Fraud Office you know , so that if er anybody in a pension fund could , could ring a number and er and people absolutely descended th that , I mean they ge they say somewhere in the report that the pension regulator is going to have er powers and monies to do spot checks . |
| 18 | Short-changed on the sale , the taxpayer is going to get some bland programming too . |
| 19 | This has been referred to frequently and the panel meetings where I 've been present erm the authority has agreed that Council and what it 's doing is to using a review of the District Planning Procedure is going to list this entire process working in partnership with Hertfordshire 's own Organisation , County Council , the department of transport , and other relevant erm national and local government Organisations as well as of course with and are the owners of the site . |
| 20 | ‘ Who is going to tell that poor child ? ’ said the housekeeper . |
| 21 | ‘ And you really think someone like Chief Inspector Kuhlmann of the German Federal Police is going to swallow this absurd idea that you 're a murderer and a rapist ? ’ |
| 22 | It 's certainly something we 're all gon na have too er adjust too , thank you for pointing it out that the United States is going to have such enormous influence er from , from now on , we 're all going to have to get used to it and er get used to how to deal with it . |
| 23 | Firstly the process of moving down towards our S S A needs to be facilitated because my own instinct is that the government , faced with all sorts of financial tribulations , is going to take a harder and harder nosed attitude towards local government expenditure , as it will unfortunately with an awful lot of the rest of what we have come to expect over the decades to be the responsibility of central government , clearly the current expenditure review is going to have some nasty shocks in it for consumers of account services , consumers of other assets of the welfare state but particularly I would suspect , the local government . |
| 24 | Er the County Council can not look at an individual building and say , this is a particular piece of land which is going to be developed and this is going to have this particular impact on the environment . |
| 25 | We have to understand that it is going to cost many millions of pounds throughout industry in Scotland and we had better get it right . ’ |
| 26 | We know that the actual reorganization is going to cost thirty million I would have thought that every possible drainage problem could ever West Sussex could easily be rectified with thirty million pounds and we could all name a project er on which we would like to spend thirty million pounds . |
| 27 | Your book now is going to bear much more relation to reality than one in which the murderer has to perform two or three pretty unlikely actions so as to provide the impenetrable mystery . |
| 28 | So who is going to buy all these buildings once they are finished ? ’ |
| 29 | With any drug breaking down emotional barriers , there is always a risk that it is going to unlock some psychological problem . ’ |
| 30 | We think it is going to achieve two key improvements in the house transfer process : It will speed things up and will improve the standards of service to the customer . |