Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cumbria have a wide ranging programme including the Pilkington Roadshow in October at Workington , Egremont , Kendal , Keswick and Kirkby Lonsdale whilst David Pears is helping out at Workington on September 2nd and Wade Dooley at Kendal on September 15th . |
| 2 | A plant that may only flower once in a hundred years but grows at up to seven inches a day is catching on with gardeners . |
| 3 | Now the idea is catching on in Britain , so Lydia Ascroft says have a bash at massage and look forward to a sexier , slinkier you for the long , hot summer ! |
| 4 | Yamaha staff will be making a return visit to the region to discover how the Japanese style of music teaching is catching on in the North-East . |
| 5 | Jordan is catching up with the Western world . |
| 6 | ‘ It is catching up with our recession , ’ Taylor says . |
| 7 | Time is catching up with the baldly-going heroes . |
| 8 | THEY are playing the blues down at Boosey & Hawkes , the international music publishers and instrument makers , because the recession is catching up with them . |
| 9 | The company is catching up with IBM UK , Bennett said , pointing to the respective performances of each . |
| 10 | Even in the realms of technical and long document publishing the Macintosh is catching up with PC-based systems ; Interleaf Publisher usually needs a PC/RT or a Sun workstation yet it runs just fine on a Macintosh II . |
| 11 | From the blurred picture you can see the vital point when the clubhead is catching up with the hands . |
| 12 | ‘ I will do as you ask for now — jet lag is catching up with me — but I warn you not to try to disappear ; your every move will be known to me almost before you make it . ’ |
| 13 | Meanwhile , though creative financing has mostly been stamped on , some councils ' past ingenuity is catching up with them . |
| 14 | The ghost of christmas future is catching up with Scrooge , and the news is grave . |
| 15 | ‘ In fact , Lynn 's a bit of a disco person and she says my age is catching up with me . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Must be getting too old for this globe-trotting lark , or else my mis-spent youth is catching up on me . |
| 17 | My bachelor 's life is catching up on me . ’ |
| 18 | And erm this one is slowly closing on that one , this one is catching up on this one at quite a rate of knots . |
| 19 | Council spokesman Mike Clark admitted : ‘ Time is catching up on us . ’ |
| 20 | Chances are , a Boeing jetliner is touching down at New York right now . |
| 21 | One is contracting out to private sector firms the production of goods and services which the state provides free or at subsidized prices to consumers . |
| 22 | There is bound to be considerable upheaval among the blue-chip client list which Deloitte UK is bringing over to the new firm . |
| 23 | ‘ In any case , ’ Finlayson went on , ‘ all those Huns the Kaiser is bringing back from Russia are fagged out . |
| 24 | Lawrence was fuming after Barnsley beat Boro 1–0 on Monday , and a season that promised so much is shaping up for a disastrous finale . |
| 25 | He could have destroyed Tottenham except for their world class goalie who is shaping up for a good World Cup eh Halvard ? |
| 26 | The Destiny launch is shaping up to be a pretty big pow-wow . |
| 27 | But Lennie Lawrence is shaping up to be the complete club manager . |
| 28 | Indian tours have never been simple affairs and after barely 24 hours the current one is shaping up like its predecessors . |
| 29 | He has few friends , and already the pressure Ipuky and Reni are putting on him through their friends is filtering down to me . |
| 30 | Mrs Strange used to be at the piano when Seven Towers sang and now that she is stepping up to the rostrum , Kathryn , daughter of bass singer and choir secretary Jack Clarke , is replacing her . |