Example sentences of "is [v-ing] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chief innovation is allowing the third umpire to make the first move in decision-making , which the TCCB admits could lead to : ‘ Suspension of a decision already made ’ . |
| 2 | According to Burrows , Software AG is building the next generation of distributed programs with graphical front-ends . |
| 3 | With Markham , LASMO has achieved two milestones in the British oil industry — the field is the first offshore development lying across the UK/Netherlands median line , and it is producing the first gas to be exported from the UK into the Continent . |
| 4 | Depending on the type of violation that is occurring the second and third course of action may or may not be available to the designer . |
| 5 | With signs the recession is ending the next two months will show whether the Leicester lights help or hinder shopkeepers . |
| 6 | If each word is displayed as soon as it is recognised , the display will be changing disconcertingly whilst the user is writing the next word . |
| 7 | What Summerchild is doing , now he has someone to do it for , is living the last dozen years of his life , which have gone by without his quite taking them in . |
| 8 | The Library is exhibiting the first of series of paintings produced by members of Eve Bennett 's RBGE Botanical Painting Course . |
| 9 | The Office des Communications Sociales of Montreal , Canada , is holding the first national conference on the Church and communication in Cap-Rouge , 4–6 June . |
| 10 | The Auditing Practices Board is facing the first test of its credibility . |
| 11 | Bavaria is facing the first major sell-off of an historic private collection since the war , and they have consulted Britain on how to respond , as England is all too used to such dispersals ( Yet another took place last month with the sale of Pitchford Hall ) . |
| 12 | After just 4 games Swindon 's John Gorman is facing the first pain barrier of the season ; 4 defeats and 14 goals conceded . |
| 13 | She 's abroad but is getting the first available flight back . |
| 14 | He ca n't ask them , so he is doing the next best thing . |
| 15 | Joe Robertson , of Lochend , who is starting the first year of Bachelor of Education ( Technology ) course at the Moray House College of Education . |
| 16 | The parent who shows strong disapproval , smacking the child or forcibly removing its hand from the offending area is sowing the first seeds of inhibition or sexual disorder . |
| 17 | In collaboration with the other UK Research Councils and with international bodies and the European Community , the Economic and Social Research Council is undertaking the first phase of its Global Environmental Change Initiative . |
| 18 | HOUSEWIFE Dorothy Gregg is swapping the Last Of The Summer Wine for a bit of peace — on the Costa Eldorado . |
| 19 | Wendy Georgeson , of Lerwick , who is entering the first year of an LLB law degree course at the University of Edinburgh ; |
| 20 | THE British Government is taking the first tentative steps to standardise the computers and computer equipment that are bought by civil servants . |
| 21 | Mute 's stance follows the news that music industry magazine Music Week is taking the first step to redefining the term ‘ independent ’ by running ‘ a genre chart open to all-comers ’ , next to ‘ an old-style distribution chart ’ , from September 19 . |
| 22 | Ian Pardoe , a Herefordshire fruit farmer , is taking the last of his apples to the market . |
| 23 | We may assume , however , that he will have a better understanding of the purpose of the author in constructing the text in the way it is constructed if he knows that it is written in the late nineteenth century ( which will account for some differences in code , in Hymes ' terms ) in Victorian England ( which will account for the reference to a Reformatory ) and that the author is constructing the first English detective story , narrating the events from the point of view of four different participants , whose characters are in part revealed by the narrative style which the author assigns to them . |
| 24 | That 's that 's one thing , but is finding the tenth root of something and then raising to the power six , or raising something to the power six and then finding the sa the tenth root , is that the same as finding the fifth root and cubing it or cubing it and finding the fifth root . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , and until 14 December , Gilles Peyroulet is hosting the first solo exhibition in France of the American Ronald Jones , a neo-conceptual sculptor who manifests a special dislike of politically-committed art . |
| 26 | Usenix is hosting the third annual Unix Security Symposium September 14–16 at the Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel in Baltimore , Maryland along with the Computer Emergency Response Team : Usenix is be holding its annual Winter 1993 Technical Conference at the San Diego Town & Country Hotel in California January 25–29 . |
| 27 | Robert Cooper has donated a magnificent Normead heifer as the first prize to the draw , and Dalgety Agriculture sponsored all the printing and promotional costs along with Herdwise , which is supplying the second prize of 10 semen straws . |
| 28 | From such protests , and meetings in family homes , grew the Stroud based Menigitis Trust , which is organising the first international conference , being held in Britain next week , aimed at wiping out the disease . |
| 29 | Just as Howard is scraping the last spoonful of apple crumble out of the bowl , a thought strikes him . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , Tamara Malcom is contemplating the next step for the Theatre — in what will be her new office . |