Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er it 's not due to my expertise at all , it 's just mainly due to the fact we do n't go to shows these days we 've always in the good old days when we used to go to shows we spent probably a hundred and thirty to two hundred pounds a year so we never had very much money as we do n't go to these shows and spend this money it is it is a it is accumulating each year . |
| 2 | Worse , Labour is accumulating fresh odium from having 40 per cent of the votes in its electoral college cast by union barons , after varying unsatisfactory forms of consultation . |
| 3 | With the other legal deposit libraries , NLS is participating in a preservation microfilming project funded in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation , which is devoting some $2.5m to this purpose in the UK . |
| 4 | Oxford University is helping young mothers scale the academic heights by opening its first nursery . |
| 5 | To hasten this process , the Japanese government is helping private industry through its Computer Basic Technology Research Association . |
| 6 | A progressive inner-city school is helping black South African children to overcome their under-developed state education system . |
| 7 | New technology is helping deaf-blind people to communicate with others to a degree unimaginable even 10 years ago . |
| 8 | This is helping many people see that RE should have something more distinctive to contribute to the values education of pupils than what can happen within the teaching of other subjects . |
| 9 | Explaining the move , IBCA said that the banks ' underlying operating profits were on a sharply improving trend which is helping offset asset quality problems . |
| 10 | MARKETING : How the IDB is helping local companies discover new outlets for their exports . |
| 11 | HOW THE IDB IS HELPING LOCAL COMPANIES TO DEVELOP THEIR EXPORT POTENTIAL |
| 12 | This is an impressive performance which provides a clear demonstration that through the provision of a comprehensive and carefully targeted range of marketing support schemes , the IDB is helping local companies of all sizes to develop their international competitiveness , expand their exporting capability and market share and win significant new international business , thereby creating growth and sustained and stable employment . |
| 13 | Therefore , I give a simple diet , which is helping these children at this time of rationing . |
| 14 | Its initiative , SCEME — Scottish Companies Exporting to the Middle East — is helping 22 companies , including J&F Johnston , to gain a toehold in the Gulf . |
| 15 | In this article we take a look at how a commitment to Total Quality Management is helping Noble Metals at Royston to grow in what continues to be a depressed marketplace … |
| 16 | Second is that by ordering ahead of conventionally-defined need , the CEGB is comparing the economics of investing in Sizewell with the economics of doing nothing , that is maintaining old plant . |
| 17 | Excretion of administered interleukin-2 and difficulties is maintaining adequate fluid and electrolyte balance are the most common clinically severe toxicities encountered . |
| 18 | They claim that the West is using environmental arguments as a foil for reducing their dependence on oil and developing alternative energy sources . |
| 19 | Yet software house Microsoft recently caused quite a stir in computer circles by announcing that it is using real people , working for real companies , to test its software products . |
| 20 | Blake is using one sense after the other , as you have learned to do . |
| 21 | Here , the child is using one object to represent another . |
| 22 | What yo you do is using that bracket there |
| 23 | Because one is using Euclidean space-times , in which the time direction is on the same footing as directions in space , it is possible for space-time to be finite in extent and yet to have no singularities that formed a boundary or edge . |
| 24 | Even though the defendant does not regard the nature of his own conduct as being disorderly , he has a sufficient mens rea to satisfy the section by being aware that he is using offensive language , or kicking over dustbins or turning out the lights in the cinema , or whatever else may be alleged to constitute the disorderly behaviour . |
| 25 | Therefore , another essential quality in effective neighbourhood policing is using experienced officers who have familiarity on the beat . |
| 26 | Here , however , Colin is using modern physics to support Christianity , on the basis that science can not provide certain knowledge , and that we must therefore look elsewhere for certainty . |
| 27 | In terms of and subject to the limitations of and for the purposes of this Section the Corporation will indemnify any person who is using such Caravan with the permission of the Policyholder provided that |
| 28 | The consortium is using two reference systems : a Sun-made Sparcstation 2 and a Fujitsu-made DS/90-7000 server running UXP/DS , Fujitsu 's version of System V.4 . |
| 29 | So and I would extend the same argument to abortion and I would say erm wh what happens in abortion admittedly erm an artificial abortion mean means that presumably a spontaneous abortion has has n't happened , but a modern woman is using extra means that she has er at her disposal , probably to deal with extra problems which evolution originally could not foresee and ultimately her self-interest might be just as well served by having er induced the abortion ultimately as it would by erm by not having but I mean this is just my personal view , and I do n't |
| 30 | This spreading effect means that insurance risk is often confused with Broadway risk , A corporation that says , " let us spread the-risk by not putting all our eggs in one basket " is using neither type of risk effectively . |