Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [det] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its chief executive , Neville Bain , said he is seeing many more inquiries from retailers currently buying from Far Eastern producers , while some continental suppliers which had been undercutting British producers are being forced to increase prices . |
| 2 | The thing to work on is applying this same principle to the playing situation . |
| 3 | It may be difficult to explain why a few minutes spent reading fourteen lines of Shakespeare should be a higher pleasure than reading an equivalent length of a James Bond story , but the analyses of literary criticism elucidate how in the former case one is living those few minutes in intensified awareness with an extraordinarily extended span , from the texture of the words sounding in one 's inner ear to the remotest implications for the living of one 's whole life . |
| 4 | Officially , Microsoft Corp is greeting all this COSE business with a shrug of the shoulders . |
| 5 | Officially , Microsoft Corp is greeting all this COSE business with a shrug of the shoulders . |
| 6 | So it is good news that Sir Bryan Carsberg , new Director General of Fair Trading , is questioning both these practices . |
| 7 | The IRAS survey is finding many such areas of star formation in our own Milky Way galaxy too . |
| 8 | Whereas your voice er is carrying all all sorts of wonderful . |
| 9 | This company is planning more such ventures , notably ‘ The Pilgrim 's Way ’ in a Canterbury church and ‘ The Oxford Story ’ in Oxford . |