Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a happier note for Parrott , his manager Phil Miller is recovering well from last week 's heart bypass operation . |
| 2 | Digital Equipment Corp is bringing forward to next month its agreed purchase of a further 4.03% stake in Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA , doubling its 4.03% stake , which was bought directly from Olivetti 's controlling shareholders . |
| 3 | The third factor is that recession is bringing home to all three countries the cost of European unity . |
| 4 | The Soviet media observed in March 1979 that ‘ the policy which Iran is pursuing today in many respects resembles the programme formulated by the Non-Aligned Movement which is being implemented successfully ’ . |
| 5 | The Valley Hotel is competing directly with three- and four-star hotels — all of which have greater marketing resources — in the Telford area . |
| 6 | It is trading ahead of this time last year , when sales were hit by the Gulf war , but exports are slowing . |
| 7 | Deepening the Common Market , that is pressing forward with existing policies , had to compete with the claims of policy widening , such as new initiatives in regional and monetary policy . |
| 8 | This is happening particularly to those publications which print stories on the Kurdish intifada . |
| 9 | The temptation for Germans now , even though the generation of which Mann was writing has largely passed away , is to see in the great breakthrough of the last few months simply a kind of vindication of Germany 's efforts to achieve hegemony in Europe , to see the first and second world wars and what is happening now as three chapters of the same story . |
| 10 | The temptation for Germans now , even though the generation of which Mann was writing has largely passed away , is to see in the great breakthrough of the last few months simply a kind of vindication of Germany 's efforts to achieve hegemony in Europe , to see the first and second world wars and what is happening now as three chapters of the same story . |
| 11 | The race is challenging enough in normal conditions , but this year the storms had turned the Wye into a torrent . |
| 12 | Yet a number of head teachers believe that reluctance on the part of some LEAs at present to prosecute parents for the poor school attendance of their children is contributing significantly to high levels of truancy . |
| 13 | It is looking desperately for overseas orders to bolster a declining workload in the UK . |
| 14 | It 's no surprise the audience is looking forward to this show with Great Expectations … |
| 15 | What is likely to prove even more controversial is the suggestion that the Government is looking seriously at imposing tolls on particular roads . |
| 16 | OIL GIANT BP is looking hard at alternative sources of energy . |
| 17 | When an extended family is living together at close quarters , even minor irritations can grow out of all proportion . |
| 18 | At the same time the government is rushing ahead with non-economic reforms which it knows will be popular , such as tightening up the conditions for acquiring French citizenship and clamping down on illegal immigration . |
| 19 | It is , after all , the case that open learning is growing fast in all phases of school and college work as well as for adult study . |
| 20 | The government has announced a near doubling of the number of cases of AIDS among heterosexuals , and says the disease is growing faster in this group than in any other . |
| 21 | Erm , so , so the service is growing rapidly in financial terms , and will continue to grow in the coming two years , if only because it 's new . |
| 22 | Biogas production is growing rapidly in Third World countries . |
| 23 | Further out in the channel the Petite France is heading upriver with another freight of day-trippers . |
| 24 | President Ibrahim Babangida is going ahead with two days of talks with Mr de Klerk despite the refusal of the African National Congress to support the meeting . |
| 25 | My mother is going home in any case and we will go with her . ’ |
| 26 | Not , ’ he added , with a wave at the rain-lashed window , ‘ that either of us is going anywhere in this . |
| 27 | Nonetheless , the first sign that the Japanese government is buying exclusively from domestic PC makers will be seen as confirming its intention to bail out NEC and others with disguised subsidies . |
| 28 | He is speaking really of two different kinds of law — the Common Law on the one side , the rules of Equity on the other — which are equally law . |
| 29 | In many places the Trust is resisting the urge automatically to replant and is aiming instead for natural regeneration by creating the right conditions for species such as birch , ash and beech to self-seed . |
| 30 | WEDNESDAY evening , 7.30 : In Coronation Street Mavis is once again getting her pinny in a twist , and in Coronation Road William Hague is moving effortlessly onto automatic pilot . |