Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The glands on its face are bestowing the cat 's personal scent , making its owner smell pleasanter and more familiar . |
| 2 | Although many local authorities in their strategy documents state that they aim first at rehabilitation , I remain unconvinced that they are devoting the same resources in terms of skilled social workers with small caseloads and adequate financial support to natural families , as they do to finding and supporting new families . |
| 3 | Roy Hardiman , the railway 's General Manager outlined the Gala arrangements ; ‘ Our two Hunslets , Holy War and Maid Marian will be working the passenger services between Llanuwchllyn and Bala Station and at present we are finalising the visit of two locos from the South of England . |
| 4 | Canada in the Spring is already planned and Roy and his wife , Ann , are finalising the details of what promises to be an exciting six-week sojourn . |
| 5 | It is I who am handling the sale of the lease on the office premises . |
| 6 | In the meantime he had been pursuing a policy of rationalizing the trade by buying patent and grain distillery businesses that were in difficulty , collaborating closely with the large blending houses . |
| 7 | Aleksei Ermolov , the Russian commander in the Caucasus whom Paskevich replaced in 1827 , had been pursuing a conciliatory or " regionalist " policy for more than a decade . |
| 8 | She said she and another officer had been pursuing a red Ford Sierra car on the road between the villages of Hillam and Burton , North Yorkshire , when it suddenly stopped and a gunman got out . |
| 9 | The president himself has quashed rumours that Egypt has been pursuing an Arab peace initiative , and rejected the idea of any ceasefire until the Iraqis have promised to withdraw from Kuwait . |
| 10 | ‘ This Government has been pursuing an energy strategy that was wrong in conception and incompetent in execution . ’ |
| 11 | At the time of his controversial dismissal from Manchester United , the News Of The World revealed that a team of private detectives , hired by a group of businessmen closely linked to some of the club 's directors , had been pursuing The Doc for nearly two years . |
| 12 | More distressingly , we discovered that the Aru islands and the Greater Bird of Paradise were no longer on their trading routes and that for the last twenty years they had been pursuing the shorter and more profitable triangular passage between Celebes , Java and Borneo . |
| 13 | Its Committee for Art and Design , for most of that period under the Chairmanship of David Bethel , the Director of Leicester Polytechnic , has been pursuing the Council 's policy of achieving a balance between the main studies , on the one hand , and the history of art and design and complementary studies on the other . |
| 14 | Since the meeting I have been pursuing the proposal for moving the Clerk Street bus stops and also examining the complaints about the Scotmid stops . |
| 15 | The University has been pursuing the details of its IT strategy and in 1992–3 , following extensive consultation , it has settled on the framework for the technical elements of this , the principle of which is distributed computing using a client-server model . |
| 16 | Because he 'd been pursuing the same man for years . |
| 17 | Would you say that you are building a reputation in eccentric roles ? necessarily eccentric — that just sounds a gimmick . |
| 18 | If you are building a trailer , fit a suspension rated for a trailer heavier than the actual weight . |
| 19 | The Soviets are building a total of six such pipelines , each one between 3000 and 4000 km long . |
| 20 | As you are building a new pond , you have the opportunity to put in the best filtration system , without paying a fortune . |
| 21 | ‘ We are building a team at Hillsborough which will be challenging for all the honours in the game . |
| 22 | The £1.7 million striker declared : ‘ We are building a squad , but to talk about winning titles at this stage is n't on . |
| 23 | Unix System Laboratories Inc 's ex-director of strategic marketing Paul Calkin has surfaced as a principal in Systems & Software Integration & Distribution Inc where he and his staff are building a business consulting personal computer and low-end Unix companies on high-end strategic and sales issues . |
| 24 | ONE of the province 's most popular marching bands , the Millar Memorial Flute , has reported an increase in membership recently with it now in excess of 35 including many young members who are building a firm base for the future . |
| 25 | We are building a $50-million isomerisation unit at our Castellon refinery to produce more unleaded motor spirit . |
| 26 | Said manager John Bell : ‘ The Canadians are building a huge power plant in Ontario and already they have been in touch for guidance on how we operate our laundry system . ’ |
| 27 | With reference to the three-dimensional search space shown in Figure 1.1 , we are building a recursive graph along the time and the knowledge-level axes . |
| 28 | We are building a park on the land . |
| 29 | The contract provides marine crews , towing vessels and full catering services for a Dutch/American joint partnership of offshore construction contractors , Heerema and McDermott , who are building a jacket and topside modules for the new Goodwyn A platform for Woodside Offshore Petroleum Pty Ltd . |
| 30 | MCDEVITT STREET Bovis are building a reputation in the healthcare sector , having recently won a US$30 million contract in their home town of Charlotte , North Carolina . |