Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE National Information Forum is drawing up a directory of hospital-based services for disabled people . |
| 2 | KENYA is drawing up a list of pesticides and medicines to be banned under laws that will pass through parliament this year . |
| 3 | At the same time , it is drawing up a list of preferred suppliers and aiming to reduce the total number . |
| 4 | In a challenge to the perceived order of things MIT Press is bringing out a book that turns the accepted view of Modernism on its head . |
| 5 | Is nursing purely a matter of imitating and repeating rote tasks , and therefore unworthy of anything more than the sympathetic application of a set of predetermined rules ? |
| 6 | Leeds MP Tim Kirkhope is building up a reputation as a quiet but skilful Enforcer but the other junior Whips are relatively inexperienced . |
| 7 | AGE Concern Cleveland is building up a stock of nearly new clothing in preparation for the opening of its RAGS centre in Linthorpe Road , Middlesbrough on June 15 . |
| 8 | Many existing maps concentrate on urban areas , but the National Register of Maps for the Visually Handicapped in London ( 071–873 2599 ) is building up a library of rural maps too . |
| 9 | Alongside the programme of developing the franchise chain — Wilmslow and Bromley open shortly , with Belfast , Harrogate and Kingston planned for the end of the year — Rodier Hommes is building up a network of approved stockists around the UK . |
| 10 | For instance , if a new service is building up a clientele base then one could naturally expect the efficiency ratio to improve over time . |
| 11 | SSL is building up a collection of databases on CD-ROM ( compact disc read-only memory ) in business , scientific and technical subjects . |
| 12 | When Florence of Worcester draws elements of his account of the battle of Assandun in 1016 from Sallust he is revealing quite a lot about the classical interests of twelfth-century historians , but also raising doubts about his own reliability , and William of Malmesbury , whose methods so often find favour with modern scholars , nevertheless records miracle stories which his critical faculties ought to have led him to doubt , and perhaps did ; and like historians of all periods , William , Florence and their colleagues were at the mercy of the bias and inadequacy of their sources , as well as their own prejudices and errors . |
| 13 | It 's not desperately moist , although certainly one of them is cracking quite a bit , and if that helps to dry it up and make it more comfortable then it 's worth giving them a soak ten minutes a day . |
| 14 | Police Constable Harry Evans is driving along a country road when he sees strange lights in the sky and an object larger than a bus hovering in the road ahead of him . |
| 15 | An argument over which bulls are best ; British or Canadian and American is causing quite a rumpus . |
| 16 | What we have is picking up a ragbag of stable door legislation , that came out of other Acts , and that 's why we have offices , shops and railway premises from the Oswald Acts which were neatly tucked in the back of Oswald 's Act . |
| 17 | Provided that Ali 's analysis of Hacihasanzade 's motives is correct-and one must remember that Ali is writing nearly a century after the event it would appear that already at the beginning of the sixteenth century the career of a kasabat kadi was regarded as a dead end . |
| 18 | A hospital is investigating how a woman patient went missing from a ward and was later found dead . |
| 19 | A major problem the country has right now is an economic one ; the Soviet Union is pulling out a lot of its aid programmes and has obviously bankrolled the Country since nineteen seventy nine , so there 's a tremendous economic problem added to the er battles of the Khmer Rouge are causing the government to fight . |
| 20 | In the campaign of February 1910 Mr Punch is peering down a well . |
| 21 | In this way , the hypnotist is not making me attack against my will , he is conjuring up a set of circumstances in which to attack seems the lesser of two evil courses . |
| 22 | Debbie has very fine hair and she is growing out a perm so a strong mousse was used and a reverse combing technique to achieve extra fullness for this amazing new look . |
| 23 | A stately home is selling off a herd of deer , and there has already been a stream of inquiries . |
| 24 | Mind you , his movie career is going downhill a bit . |
| 25 | GUINNESS is going down a treat in Sweden — at £5.50 a pint . |
| 26 | Meanwhile at the Swan in Southrop , Old Spot Pork is going down a treat . |
| 27 | TOLLY beer from Suffolk is going down a storm among the wine drinkers of Italy.And ale from Tolly 's Cliff Brewery in Ipswich could soon be wetting the whistles of beer-lovers in Canada , Germany , Holland and France.Tolly bosses are celebrating after exporting 1,200 cases of their special Year Beer , Cantab , to Italy — and they have received inquiries from four other countries.Brian Cowie , Tolly 's joint managing director , said interest from abroad had initially come since the brewery 's name had been publicised on BBC television 's recent Troubleshooter programme . |
| 28 | He can not understand that he is waiting only a matter of moments before his desire will be satisfied . |
| 29 | The DSM III ( American Psychiatric Association 1980 ) definition of nocturnal enuresis is bedwetting twice a month for children between the ages of 5 and 6 years . |
| 30 | The little thing is kicking up a storm ! ’ |