Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Middlesbrough group of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society is racing against time to save the TV time lord from an enforced break by his masters , the BBC . |
| 2 | The same message is coming over time and time again : man 's activities are destroying the planet , and the environmentalists are the most likely people to save the planet . |
| 3 | I am pleased to say that the Sizewell B project is progressing on time and to cost . |
| 4 | Yet we can observe how the expansion of the universe is varying with time and thus determine that the-cosmological constant is very small . |
| 5 | The rate is increasing with time ( 1 in 900 in the UK in 1903 against 1 in 400 in 1973 ) ; but this may be an artefact of more accurate recording of the cause of death — before the arrival of modern terminal care , people usually died of pneumonia . |
| 6 | How quickly the speed is increasing as time goes on . |
| 7 | O'Connor , however , is fighting against time . |
| 8 | O'Connor , however , is fighting against time . |
| 9 | A DYING lung cancer victim is fighting against time to finish his evidence for his £500,000 test case against a tobacco company he blames for his illness . |
| 10 | So that 's , that 's , sorry , that 's its , how its distance is changing as time goes on . |
| 11 | Men are more likely than women to be ‘ economically active ’ , that is , in effect , to be in or seeking paid employment outside the home ( see Figure 2.8 ) , but this difference is decreasing with time ( see Figure 2.9 ) . |
| 12 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates says he is working with Time Warner Inc to bring experimental two-way television to some 5,000 Florida homes by early 1994 , the Orlando Sentinel reported , adding that the two companies are working toward making such two-way systems more user-friendly ; Gates said that he studied several other experimental two-way television systems but chose the Orlando project because it seemed to offer the best interactive possibilities of ordering movies , making financial transactions and ‘ creating a computer window into the world of information ’ . |
| 13 | Ann McAllister Olivarius in December 1989 moved to Virginia where her husband Jef McAllister is working for Time Magazine as its State Department correspondent ; she herself works as a lawyer for Perot Systems Corporation . |