Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An electronic bug the size of a staple is helping protect valuable antiques . |
| 2 | At St Gabriel , Louisiana , USA , ICI is helping to create new wetlands on the banks of the Mississippi . |
| 3 | Money raised from a variety of enterprise initiatives , including a cafe , is helping to send handicapped pupils from Catcote School in Hartlepool on summer breaks . |
| 4 | In another ear the sole consultant ophthalmologist has resigned from the district general hospital and bought a caravan which he is using to provide private consultations at fundholding practices . |
| 5 | In particular it is revealing to consider two principles in deterrence theory which are considered to inhibit ‘ conventional ’ crime — these are ‘ the certainty of being caught ’ and ‘ the severity of the punishment ’ . |
| 6 | Another firm , Tiger Rail , is bidding to run three trains a week to carry china clay from Cornwall to Scotland . |
| 7 | BROADGREEN MP Jane Kennedy is bidding to make sure jobs at Liverpool 's new customs offices go to local people . |
| 8 | Joe 's obsessive desire to know what is happening brings disastrous results . |
| 9 | It is looking to open further offices abroad too , to complement the distributor network it has set up across Western Europe , the Pacific Rim and Australia . |
| 10 | Ferguson said : ‘ I think Howard is looking to strengthen other areas of his team . |
| 11 | Computer Horizons Corp 's largest shareholder , CGI Informatique SA , itself under agreed offer from IBM Corp , is seeking to persuade other shareholders to overturn corporate policies that it thinks deter potential acquisition offers for the Mountain Lakes , New Jersey company . |
| 12 | Just as the Barnes disputes seem closer to resolution , another Pennsylvania museum is seeking to challenge accepted practices and deaccession an important work of art . |
| 13 | He is attempting to link these differences in ways of indicating status , as between grammatical and paralinguistic forms , with the concept of ‘ objectivity ’ . |
| 14 | Mr John McGarry , a consultant obstetrician , is attempting to monitor all children from the area born after the 6 July incident . |
| 15 | Companies across the country will be subject to a uniform rate set by central government , although Mr Eggar is attempting to calm these fears by pointing out that a special case has been made for small firms . |
| 16 | Jolly Roger ( JR ) is the newly-appointed financial director of a medium sized engineering company which is having trouble with its credit control , or more precisely its lack of it , and JR is attempting to introduce new controls . |
| 17 | CIC is budgeting to sell 100 machines over the next three years . |
| 18 | He is going to see environmental projects which help farmers to use their land in a sustainable way and women 's groups working in Brazil nut factories . |
| 19 | But no American politician , especially a wealthy one , is going to last two minutes if he 's caught looking down his nose at folk the way the French do . |
| 20 | In case anyone should think that some of our commentary on IBM Corp and its problems is a little apocalyptic , hear what they are saying on the other side of the Atlantic : ‘ With IBM , there 's a question in my mind whether the company is going to exist five years from now , ’ Kenneth Heebner of Boston fund manager Capital Growth Management commented to the Wall Street Journal . |
| 21 | But , if Goody is going to draw significant consequences from what he defines as ‘ literacy ’ , then it is important to be clear as to just what it is that is supposed to have these consequences . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't quite see ’ , said one of them , ‘ how Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) is going to stop these humans . |
| 23 | ‘ My friend is going to ask some questions . |
| 24 | Perhaps unsurprisingly the Government remains coy about firstly who really is going to pick these appointees for consideration by the Home Secretary ? |
| 25 | ‘ I swear to you that your honourable gambling partner is going to restore those farms to this estate . |
| 26 | Washington sent ‘ a very strong statement ’ that made it clear that ‘ this is going to affect bilateral relations very negatively . ’ |
| 27 | High standards of accuracy become important if the investigator is going to employ sophisticated methods of analysing the flight recording , such as making a double integration of the vertical acceleration recording to obtain an accurate description of the shape of the flight-path perpendicular to the pitch attitude . |
| 28 | If you know in advance that a customer is going to take six months to pay you instead of one and you still want to make the sale , then consider loading your price to cover your finance costs . |
| 29 | He is going to take some photographs . |
| 30 | So Alan must have had well in mind the fact that any Rokkaku bout is going to offer short odds on a kite crash ! |