Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [noun prp] [is] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're doing that cos Mr 's not gon na hear unless I play it to him . |
| 2 | Oh he could do with that cos Emily 's always asking me |
| 3 | If Keith Wright 's performance in this match was anything to go by , then he will certainly be glad when Jackson is back riding shotgun with him in the Hibs attack . |
| 4 | The entire courtship was only 12 weeks long so Jim is now hoping to find time to get to know Sara better . |
| 5 | However , R/3 is not seen as a competitor to R/2 : ‘ It ( R/2 ) will exist as long as IBM is still investing in mainframes , ’ commented Plattner . |
| 6 | IBM Corp 's personal computer business was around the break-even level or may have been profitable in the first three months of this year , the president of IBM Personal Computer Co Robert Corrigan told the New York Times : he says he thinks ‘ people will be surprised at how quickly we 're bringing this business back , ’ and that it should be solidly profitable before year-end ; problem is that its closest rivals , Compaq Computer Corp and Dell Computer Corp , which both faced the same problems as IBM , adjusted to the change in the market much more quickly , and rushed appropriate machines out while IBM procrastinated , so that they are already strongly profitable while IBM is still having to build up momentum . |