Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [v-ing] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The undeniable fact is that chlorine is building up in the atmosphere much faster than it can be coped with . |
| 2 | Work is going on in the Beaufort Sea on the West Coast and also off the East Coast where a significant discovery — Hibernia — has led to disagreement and a legal dispute between the federal government and the province of Newfoundland concerning sovereignty over offshore fuels . |
| 3 | Experimental work is going on in the production of educational software for videodisc . |
| 4 | Dates for this year were already booked but much work is going on in the background to see how possible it is to reduce the number of reunions and thereby enable members to meet more old friends . |
| 5 | While your child is splashing about in the sunshine , be very careful to protect her skin from the sun 's rays , which can still burn her even in the water . |
| 6 | But an enormous backlog of untaxed cases of wine is building up in the producers ' warehouses . |
| 7 | The move by Precision to break out of the workstation market into the higher echelons of data analysis is , the company says , the first in a series of developments the firm is working on in the supercomputing arena . |
| 8 | We now understand the day before another young boy af about nine saw a amn dressed exactly the same some distance away in the Sparcells estate so we can only assume that this man is lurking around in the area . |
| 9 | No it 's not the soap in that box is lying down in the coal hole . |
| 10 | Sometimes the names of the authors of the report appear on the title page but , if the report is going out in the name of an organisation , it may be kept impersonal except for the signatures at the end . |
| 11 | The agency is thrashing about in the grip of an angry Congress that is bent on uncovering mismanagement and conflicts-of-interest at the agency . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It hopes its own order book is solid but knows that double ordering is going on in the sector . |
| 14 | THE drive to save energy is picking up in the United States — and helping to boost demand for a Courtaulds product . |