Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a child is sniffing with a group of young people , and has been for some time , it may help to provide other more interesting and exciting leisure activities . |
| 2 | It is this extra sum which the estate is using as a stick against the BMC , in the hope that it will stump up the cash as the estate can not afford to invest this much in climbing . |
| 3 | Another up-and-coming Middlesbrough and Cleveland athlete , Jeffrey Anderson , is recovering from a hamstring injury received in last month 's Mandale Open meeting . |
| 4 | DEREK RANDALL , Nottinghamshire 's former England batsman , is recovering from a cartilage operation to cure knee trouble that hampered him in the closing stages of the season . |
| 5 | The Lubavitcher Rebbe is recovering from a stroke . |
| 6 | Mabel , who is recovering from a stroke , added : ‘ I feel great . |
| 7 | The City players collected almost £1,000 to enable Lisa Johnson to join Lake in Los Angeles where he is recovering from a transplant operation on his knee . |
| 8 | Lancashire will make a late fitness check on Orrell hooker Neil Hitchen , who is recovering from a neck injury . |
| 9 | The defence will remain unchanged in the continued absence of central defender Kevin Ball , who is recovering from a knee injury , and if Goodman is available Crosby will have to choose between former England international Peter Davenport or young striker David Rush for the remaining midfield slot . |
| 10 | Conclusion : so far , the economy is contracting at a pace that is remarkably similar to America 's two deepest post-war recessions . |
| 11 | As we reported in The Art Newspaper for December 1991 ( No.13 , pp.6–7 ) the boom in museum building that Germany had enjoyed in the Eighties is drawing to a close under the financial pressure of reunification . |
| 12 | The research is concentrating on middle managers ( or , to use the more wide-ranging French term , cadres ) and it is drawing on a range of case study methods . |
| 13 | Is manufacturing as a part of gross national product likely to continue to decline in Europe and the USA ? |
| 14 | GONE : It 's a long way down for a reporter whose life is hanging by a thread |
| 15 | A Class F Land Charge or Notice is binding on a husband 's trustee in bankruptcy , subject to the provisions of the Matrimonial Homes Act ( Insolvency Act 1986 , s336 ) . |
| 16 | They snap at the insect and catch it in their mouths while it is resting on a flower . |
| 17 | At the moment the filter is resting on a flowerpot to keep its top above water and complete the wet and dry circuit . |
| 18 | MARGARET THATCHER 's drive to bring the information revolution to Britain is juddering to a halt . |
| 19 | The two nations are collaborating on several satellite projects , including the L-Sat communications craft that British Aerospace is building for a launch in 1987 . |
| 20 | He is struggling under a mountain of debt today . |
| 21 | Norwich could again be without midfielder Ian Crook ( calf strain ) , and Ian Butterworth is struggling with a rib injury . |
| 22 | Chelsea striker Mick Harford is struggling with a calf strain , while Southampton could be without centre-back Ken Monkou ( hamstring ) . |
| 23 | However , there is no record of any more funds , nor any reported expansion in the 500-strong workforce which is struggling with a spillage about 14 times as large as that in Alaska . |
| 24 | Republic of Ireland left-back Steve Staunton is struggling with a knee injury and Bryan Small is standing by to make his first appearance of the season . |
| 25 | Phil Kite is struggling against a hand injury and Mel Rees faces a long recovery from cancer surgery last summer . |
| 26 | The team at SAUS is collaborating with a team at the University of Bath in a study of Swindon , an expanding town on the M4 which is thought to have received more than its share of the benefits of economic change . |
| 27 | He is leafing through a newspaper , looking for the forecasts . |
| 28 | In order to make his song heard the young man is singing into a microphone wired to a loudspeaker . |
| 29 | So am I am I right in thinking that the western relief road is catering for a north south through traffic element , but its primary purpose is to provide relief to the main e the present A sixty one which runs through the centre of Harrogate and again would seek to distribute traffic around the network and bring it in on other radial roads from the West for example ? |
| 30 | It warns that ever more land will be needed for crop production , while the land surface is shrinking as a result of rising sea levels caused by global warming . |