Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blake is using one sense after the other , as you have learned to do . |
| 2 | Here , the child is using one object to represent another . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The tycoon Deacon Chiu is building three film studios at his Tang Dynasty Village , which is due to open in the middle of this year . |
| 5 | South East Sumatra : Production is currently at 180,000 bopd ( 6,500 net to LASMO ) , with the major contribution coming from the Widuri field which is producing 100,000 bopd . |
| 6 | My offspring is gaining one unit , that it would n't have had otherwise . |
| 7 | Bremer collects gallstones , the middle-ear bones of Dwarfs and Halflings , preserved shrunken ears ( separated into male and female , nobles and commoners ) , and one of his more distressing habits is keeping one eyeball from each of his victims if at all possible . |
| 8 | So far , the Saudi government has invested £10 billion through an oil-for-arms linked payment arrangement for a contract that is protecting 30,000 defence jobs in Britain . |
| 9 | Johnen & Schöttle , whose emphasis is upon photography , with a smattering of sculpture and modern realist painting , is launching two group shows in May , entitled ‘ Double Identity ’ . |
| 10 | At the As-Salih Negm Ad-din madrasa and mausoleum urgent action is needed to save the minaret , which has cracked and is sloping one way , while the supporting timber lintel slopes the other . |
| 11 | Mick Bardell is serving 2 life sentences for murder and conspiracy to murder . |
| 12 | In other words the principal carer 's preference is very strongly associated with where the sufferer is living one year after referral . |
| 13 | At 1–10 Summer Street , an unrestored light industrial building in Farringdon , formerly occupied by a printing business , Jay Jopling is presenting ten plexiglass sculptures by Marcus Taylor ( to 25 June ) , who is included in ‘ The London Portfolio ’ . |
| 14 | It is paying 8.9 p.c. on £2,000 for one year . |
| 15 | To coincide with a survey of his New York Urban Portraits which has opened at Oxford 's Museum of Modern Art ( see p. 15 ) , Marlborough is exhibiting twenty-five oil paintings completed by Bill Jacklin on Coney Island during the last eighteen months ( to 29 November ) . |
| 16 | LLOYD 'S broker PWS Holdings is buying 75 p.c. of insurance broker Burns-Crosson for £100,000 with the undertaking to subscribe another £50,000 for further shares on completion of the deal , and can take its shareholding to 85 p.c. by 1997 for up to a total cost of £500,000 . |
| 17 | DIPLOMA , the electronics and building components group , is buying 90 p.c. of Anachem , a Luton-based distributor of liquid chromatography systems to the pharmaceutical and research sectors , for £10.4m in cash . |
| 18 | In an effort to enforce the ban , Taiwan 's Council on Agriculture , responsible for regulating the industry , is chartering three fishing boats this year in co-operation with the US , which is also monitoring the area . |
| 19 | Britain 's bosses are getting twelve point three percent more in total remuneration than they were last year , their workforce is getting nine point eight percent . |
| 20 | They they erm er in their document identified er the fact that Richmondshire is getting six point one percent of the housing allocation and five point one percent of the employment allocation . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not a lover of the verbal reasoning test , ’ he goes on , ‘ But what we are now doing is abandoning one system when we have n't perfected its replacement . |
| 22 | Against all this , Conner is fielding one boat with a £7 million budget — and there is no love lost between the two men . |
| 23 | A kitchen fittings firm is closing three factory units with the loss of two jobs . |
| 24 | The hospital is running two training workshops on laser surgery later this week for ENT surgeons from throughout the United Kingdom and the Republic . |
| 25 | Mental health chief Mike Day , who is treating six Ecstasy ravers at Scunthorpe hospital , is outraged . |
| 26 | In the three popular dailies , the Sun , the Star and the Daily Mirror , there is considerable coverage and , on average , there is approaching one rape court case reported each week in these newspapers . |
| 27 | ‘ The biggest difficulty is having one foot in the committee and one on the playing field . |
| 28 | ‘ From personal observation , his chief expertise is knowing one end of a claret bottle from the other . |
| 29 | The team is taking 26,000 baby dinners to orphanages in Iasi along with part of a consignment of shoes , baby milk , medicines and a full library of medical textbooks which were donated by North Tees General Hospital . |
| 30 | IBM is pioneering 90 community projects in Brazil , based on its own internal ‘ quality circle ’ programmes . |