Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [adv] [art] [noun] " 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 | Hodder is bringing out a Herbs volume in its revamped Teach Yourself series ( June , £5.99 , 0340 58260 X ) . |
| 5 | In association with Philips , Two-Can Multimedia is bringing out a CD-I ( Compact Disc Interactive ) version of its book Make It Work ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Yamaha has a new sports 600 — no word of a 900 — and Honda is bringing out an economy priced 500 twin . |
| 8 | Yale is bringing out The Planters of the English Landscape Garden by Douglas D.C. Chambers , dealing with the philosophy of gardening and landscaping in England in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries . |
| 9 | One view of the overall employment implications of new technology is that it is bringing about the collapse of work . |
| 10 | Northamptonshire County Council is bringing in the ban on nearly four thousand acres of farmland where fox hunting could take place . |
| 11 | A good ‘ test ’ is seeing how the defender would feel about being credited for an OG . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | It follows that if it is raining then the balcony is wet . |
| 14 | The JD Tele is jangly and promisingly loud ; the Signature model sounds subdued to the point of inertia , almost as if the basswood is sucking up the sound — not a good start . |
| 15 | Leeds MP Tim Kirkhope is building up a reputation as a quiet but skilful Enforcer but the other junior Whips are relatively inexperienced . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | For instance , if a new service is building up a clientele base then one could naturally expect the efficiency ratio to improve over time . |
| 20 | SSL is building up a collection of databases on CD-ROM ( compact disc read-only memory ) in business , scientific and technical subjects . |
| 21 | What follows thereafter is building up the knowledge and experience of all those things that will enable us to identify , plan and implement improvements to our business . |
| 22 | ‘ The hardest part of the whole technique is building up the independence of the finger that holds the bottleneck . |
| 23 | ‘ It is absolutely necessary that if somebody is gumming up the system or can not keep pace with what you are trying to do that they should go , ’ he declares uncompromisingly . |
| 24 | It is absolutely necessary that if somebody is gumming up the system or can not keep pace with what you are trying to do that they should go |
| 25 | Since the Common Market annually produces such vast quantities of wine fit for nothing better than compulsory distillation , it is puzzling why the authorities still require producers of Coteaux Champenois to churn out as much as one or two pieces of this liquid for every marc pressed . |
| 26 | Nor is this just a problem that is eating away the character of historic towns and conservation areas . |
| 27 | However , he is climbing up the weights and may find this trip a shade on the short side . |
| 28 | You 're in a position of strength as a potential client who is checking out the service on offer . |
| 29 | Upstairs in the nursery the baby is tearing up The Anatomy of Melancholy , and eating it page by page . |
| 30 | 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 . |