Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yamaha staff will be making a return visit to the region to discover how the Japanese style of music teaching is catching on in the North-East . |
| 2 | Jordan is catching up with the Western world . |
| 3 | Time is catching up with the baldly-going heroes . |
| 4 | From the blurred picture you can see the vital point when the clubhead is catching up with the hands . |
| 5 | There is bound to be considerable upheaval among the blue-chip client list which Deloitte UK is bringing over to the new firm . |
| 6 | Lawrence was fuming after Barnsley beat Boro 1–0 on Monday , and a season that promised so much is shaping up for a disastrous finale . |
| 7 | He could have destroyed Tottenham except for their world class goalie who is shaping up for a good World Cup eh Halvard ? |
| 8 | Mrs Strange used to be at the piano when Seven Towers sang and now that she is stepping up to the rostrum , Kathryn , daughter of bass singer and choir secretary Jack Clarke , is replacing her . |
| 9 | In the UK , Barclays Computer Operations , Knutsford , Cheshire , which was set up in January 1991 by Barclays Bank Plc to provide in-house facilities management , is stepping out into the commercial marketplace with its own offerings — OPM ( Operator Presentation Manager ) , and DataPlace . |
| 10 | Now that Czechoslovakia is stepping out of the Stalinist ice-box , nationalist voices in Slovakia are beginning to be heard again . |
| 11 | Cop the name of the man ( above ) who is stepping down from a top job . |
| 12 | Ideally the Civic Society would like to see far more drastic policy change , possibly thinking in terms of forty hectares but we realize the minimum possible would be the thirty point five hectares which is hanging over from the first phase of the structure plan , and so that must of course be regarded as committed . |
| 13 | It is not only labour that the economic power of Bangkok is sucking out of the north-east . |
| 14 | If you want to bless me you can bless my bottom , for it is sticking out of the hole . " " |
| 15 | The label of his white cotton underwear is sticking out of the top of his pants . |
| 16 | But an enormous backlog of untaxed cases of wine is building up in the producers ' warehouses . |
| 17 | The undeniable fact is that chlorine is building up in the atmosphere much faster than it can be coped with . |
| 18 | There is always a danger of war when you have a face to face confrontation that is building up in the Gulf at the moment . |
| 19 | There are encouraging signs , however , that the TV western is struggling back into the saddle . |
| 20 | Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems Ltd , based in Bracknell , Berkshire is branching out into a new niche printing market with its 2140 MICR — hailed as the world 's fastest personalised Magnetic Ink Character Recognition printing system . |
| 21 | Though he still likes the animal and slapstick comics , he is branching out into the blood-and-thunder type . |
| 22 | BELFAST is limbering up for the big international fitness challenge . |
| 23 | And do you know what , one of them is wading around in the middle of the loch , up to his waist in the water . ’ |
| 24 | Hewlett-Packard Co is well ahead of the pack in fitting out its Unix machines with the kind of operations management systems that mainframe users expect , but Sun Microsystems Computer Corp is galloping off down the same path and has gone to Legent Corp for an agreement under which Legent will convert Legent 's system management tools to run on Sparcsystems under Solaris Unix . |
| 25 | Mum is singing along with the last hymn . |
| 26 | BARCLAYS , the biggest plastic card issuer , is gearing up for a blitz on card fraud in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 27 | Comedienne Marti Caine , star presenter of BBC1 's Joker in the Pack is gearing up for a hair-raising performance as the evil panto Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . |
| 28 | The sportscar firm is gearing up for a multi-million pound windfall by having replicas of the dream machine on sale in the next few weeks for at least £5,000 apiece . |
| 29 | Olympic decathlete Daley Thompson has left the world of track and field and is gearing up for a new career in motor racing . |
| 30 | THE NORTH-EAST is gearing up for a bumper celebration of European arts and entertainment . |