Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It starts with the observation that Major is struggling desperately to gain stature and authority . |
| 2 | INDUSTRY Minister Peter Lilley said yesterday he is lobbying hard to bring part of a £500m contract to Darlington . |
| 3 | Your readers may not be aware that the Institute is providing much appreciated support to members who have suffered redundancy , with all the personal and career problems that follow in the wake of such an upheaval . |
| 4 | Microsoft supremo Bill Gates is doing more to unify Unix than any other single human being in the last five years . |
| 5 | The metals the government is hoarding probably include manganese , chromium and cobalt , which are important in steel production and the defence industries . |
| 6 | Lyndon Harrison , the member for Cheshire West , is trying again to win grant aid from the EC 's shipbuilding funding for the Birkenhead yard which is scheduled to close next month . |
| 7 | Dispossession can , however , induce a psychological reaction , not least because the mind is trying desperately to make sense of what 's happening . |
| 8 | He is trying hard to develop business ties , with special emphasis on secular Turkey . |
| 9 | NASA is working overtime to get Challenger into orbit by 7 March . |