Example sentences of "is [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A retired engineer who has collected information on card indexes over 30 years as a member of the World Ship Society is devoting his full time to implementing such a database . |
| 2 | Andrew Holmes is helping our Divisional teamwork . |
| 3 | The board is maintaining its final dividend at 1.8 pence per share , which makes a total of 2.7 pence for the year . |
| 4 | One assertion is that the world 's richest country is maintaining its high and raising standard of living by borrowing and thus depriving other countries — with very much lower living standards — of investible funds . |
| 5 | All these people are doing is using their psychic faculties . |
| 6 | The company is using its global broadband network to link the services and is using them to launch a Global Managed Data Service which will compete with the likes of British Telecommunications Plc 's Global Network Service and Infonet . |
| 7 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Jan. 23 said that Akashi 's appointment had " given the impression that Japan is using its financial muscle to secure more senior UN posts " . |
| 8 | With competition for research funds now especially fierce , the Defense Department is using its bountiful budget for university based science to ‘ sensitise ’ — as one Defense official put it — university scientists to its security concerns . |
| 9 | Letterman thinks that he is failing in love with her but he has the impression that she is using his cosseted and lineamented body in some sinister fashion . |
| 10 | Some of the myths surrounding the goddess Venus warn that the worst trespass against her is to see her naked and asleep . |
| 11 | Re-equipment is now in progress , and the purpose of studying it is to see what practical lessons can be learned , which will be of value in future projects . |
| 12 | We all share the same sky and the same passion , which is to see our joint projects take to the air . |
| 13 | It continued : " A people which has so enriched our common civilization is recovering its rightful place in Europe and in the world . " |
| 14 | Er , what we have done , of course , is change our whole attitude er over ten or fifteen years , to part-time employment . |
| 15 | A POLICE federation is to sue its local water authority in an attempt to win compensation for an officer who became ill after saving a man from drowning in a polluted river . |
| 16 | Its only response to being disturbed is to erect its dorsal spines . |
| 17 | Or if you 've got a solicitor who is handling your legal affairs , then perhaps they do it er for nothing or cheaply . |
| 18 | In both areas of law there is a collective system of general prospective rules concerned with the guidance of conduct and it is necessary that the credibility of such rules be preserved if the system is to perform its central social function . |
| 19 | NEC Corp is to sample its low power VRX MIPS R4000 derivative by year-end : a 100MHz R4000 implementation is also planned for later in 1993 . |
| 20 | NEC Corp is to sample its low power VRX Mips R4000 derivative by year-end ( UX No 377 ) : a 100MHz R4000 implementation is also planned for 1993 . |
| 21 | National Rivers Authority was also worried because once the section is designated its legal protection would make flood maintenance work difficult . |
| 22 | ‘ And even as America 's administrations change , America 's fundamental interests do not and the greatest gesture of goodwill any nation can make towards me is to continue their full cooperation during this period with our one President , George Bush . ’ |
| 23 | One thing the damned illness does is make me tired for very little . |
| 24 | The strategy we put in place in 1989 is proving itself robust during a period of great volatility in the industry . |
| 25 | She is resting her garlanded head on the fingertips of a red-gloved hand , inserting the large , crystal-clear dildo with the other , her crimson mouth parted and blue-mascara 'd eyes half-shut in rapturous delight as the devoted Koons goes about his business . |
| 26 | Watkinson is resting his broken finger . |
| 27 | SoVam Teleport , now part-owned by Cable & Wireless Plc here in London , has established a new packet switching node in Ufa , Bashkirria : the new facility will enable the company to market dedicated communications lines between the city and Moscow , with connections to the rest of the public network ; Ufa is a centre of oil industry enterprises and it is at these customers that SoVam is targeting its new service ; the company also aims to set up new nodes in the cities of Chelyabinsk , Salavat and Sterlitomak in the near future . |
| 28 | To do this , accepting that many visitors from across the world will probably attend the next World Cup , tempted also by the extraordinarily favourable rates of exchange and despite the problems which may still exist in the country , SARFU has to ensure that the majority of South Africans will have a chance to attend the games if rugby is to lose its elitist ‘ white ’ connotations . |
| 29 | Neither is it immediately obvious to us how important it is to inhibit our automatic responses . |
| 30 | When an ‘ insular ’ mother responds she is reflecting her total reaction to all the people she meets rather than that particular person ( Dumas and Wahler 1983 ) . |