Example sentences of "is [adv] [v-ing] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I heard this morning , through Guy 's fiancée Nicola Schreider , that Guy is secretly negotiating with Farthingdales , ’ she said shakily . |
| 2 | Prince Charles is sitting with his legs spread but there is a give-away sign of his unease : he is nervously playing with his cuff-links . |
| 3 | A touching 86% agreed that ‘ sex is most fulfilling with the person you love ’ . |
| 4 | The city 's mayor , Vincent Schoemel , who is white , is constantly squabbling with its leading black politician , the comptroller , Virvus Jones . |
| 5 | Shirai 's voice here seems to have taken on a new dimension , a darker tonal colour , a new expressiveness that is constantly compelling with the emphasis on the drama . |
| 6 | His practice in Abingdon is constantly dealing with exercise-induced injuries . |
| 7 | The Bullock Committee found that ‘ [ t ] he role of a board varies from company to company and is constantly changing with the requirements of business . |
| 8 | But whatever symbolic power this picture has , it is diminished by the suggestion that , stylistically , the picture is merely playing with tradition . |
| 9 | In this case , Joan is merely checking with Carol about potentially shared information : whether Carol knows " Johnny " . |
| 10 | Unfortunately it seems that it has been the agricultural ministry which has won the debate , and Britain is merely tinkering with the problem . |
| 11 | Once he introduces them , the linguist can not simply retreat into claiming that he is only dealing with the abstractions of descriptive linguistics . |
| 12 | One of them , it was pointed out to him , was the great ex-Soviet chess player , Korchnoi , who is apparently training with the team in order to reach maximum physical fitness for his world title challenge to his arch-rival , the darling of the Soviets , Karpov . |
| 13 | Apple Computer Inc is apparently negotiating with third party manufacturers — including Radius Inc and DayStar Digital Inc — to develop PowerPC versions of the Macintosh for specific markets , according to Computer Reseller News . |
| 14 | Demand for the new product , which has been available for around a year under MS-DOS , is apparently spiralling with orders received so far from British Telecommunications Plc , Sun Alliance , Citibank and retailer The Body Shop . |
| 15 | The new town is literally blooming with the growth that foreign investment has brought . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've told her mummy is away travelling with Lizzie . |
| 17 | The kitchen is soon reverberating with eerie Arabic wailing . |
| 18 | ‘ This is just playing with bent paperclips . |
| 19 | SunSelect , however , is already toying with notions of porting Sun 's network NFS to it and is in early discussions with Microsoft , which is currently looking to DEC to buck up its NT networking capabilities , exploring points of synergy . |
| 20 | Among the medical teams , a doctor who 's husband is already serving with the UN in Croatia . |
| 21 | Males , in particular , are quickly inhibited from approaching a female if she is already interacting with a male partner . |
| 22 | It is already working with Ingres and Oracle on prototype databases for its server , which will be able to cope with SQL queries from a variety of sources including OpenVME systems and DRS6000 Unix boxes . |
| 23 | If the poetry of the early part of the eighteenth century is already grappling with the problems associated with a realistic treatment of agricultural labour , it is not surprising that an agricultural labourer should eventually make an impact as a poet . |
| 24 | SCO is already battling with IBM 's OS/2 , which , if the spin doctors are to be believed , will still make at least some of the running in its 32-bit form . |
| 25 | Managing director Joel Jervis is already negotiating with several companies operating in niche areas such as network support . |
| 26 | One health authority is already negotiating with a French hospital , but it is under the impression that it may not yet make use of that facility . |
| 27 | As a result , abattoir owners are beginning to speculate that the operating framework of the beef sector could swing overwhelmingly towards exports — as it is already doing with lamb . |
| 28 | Every bride looks beautiful — this is partly because of what she is wearing and partly because she is usually glowing with happiness . |
| 29 | Everything focuses on the fact that he is always struggling with his desire for love and power as well as for an end to all his problems . |
| 30 | The Weather Department is always experimenting with new ideas . |