Example sentences of "is [v-ing] its [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Electronic News has been doing the rounds of the Foundation sponsors and finds that only Digital Equipment Corp of the US and European sponsors is hanging its hat on OSF/1 for its flag ship Unix machines . |
| 2 | With the surprising increase in specific grants for health , and reports of 116 new AIDS cases in the UK this January , concern is being expressed that the government is downgrading its commitment to AIDS . |
| 3 | She is much better suited to this B format , and coronet is reissuing its titles in B during this year . |
| 4 | BA is keeping its distance from attempts by Stephen Wolf and Jay Pritzker to revive the bidding consortium , but there are still hopes in the US that it could be persuaded to step in at the last minute to add weight to a new bid . |
| 5 | It is good to see that the railway is keeping its head above water . |
| 6 | The College of Technology is opening its doors to people who want to take the Special Needs Teaching Certificate Course , leading to a City and Guilds . |
| 7 | Next week is national Adult Learning Week and Darlington College of Technology among others is opening its doors to people who want to find out more about education . |
| 8 | According to Turner , it is basing its strategy for growth on further expansion into the international arena , a necessary tactic as so many of its customers are multinationals , and require global support . |
| 9 | Currently , the Commission is developing its proposals for development and cohesion , and it would have been very nice to have seen this work unfolding within the context of an informed and radical debate , pushed forward by the socialist parties of all the member states . |
| 10 | Additionally , it is said that Mr Benn [ = the Secretary of State for Industry ] has dared break a rather long departmental silence with a couple of speeches ( … ) , to tell how election pledges will be fulfilled and private industry is lining its pockets with state money with no strings attached . |
| 11 | Not only is the Swaledale Festival being held from May 22nd to June 7th , but throughout the season the Richmond Meet ( which I understand began as an association of cyclists ) is celebrating its centenary with maypole dancing , a triathlon , a dinner , golfing events and all manner of other attractions . |
| 12 | Lilley is selling its stakes in developments at Stoke Poges ( Bucks ) and Chelsea ; and in Caledonia Land , which owns property in Scotland . |
| 13 | A LEADING government scientific research centre is selling its services to industry in an attempt to bolster its ailing finances . |
| 14 | Fairfax is securing its wheels with rocks . |
| 15 | BBC Enterprises , which is funding its share from profits not the licence fee , will take around 20 per cent of the channel . |
| 16 | Sun Microsystems Inc planet SunConnect is moving its headquarters to Grenoble in France to create an international platform for its network business . |
| 17 | Comsat Corp , which just changed its legal name from Communications Satellite Corp , is moving its headquarters to Bethesda , Maryland from Washington , DC on June 1 ; all operations at the Washington office are to move to Bethesda or Clarksburg . |
| 18 | AGM : The Walton on the Naze Chamber of Commerce is holding its AGM on Wednesday , March 17 , at 7.30 pm , at Walton 's Queen 's Head Hotel . |
| 19 | Terry Johnson , general manager of Whitby Port Services , said he is having talks with three potential customers to replace the Norwegian Stream Line which is switching its operations to Killingholme , Humberside , at the end of the month , after ten years of using Whitby harbour . |
| 20 | The Benefits Agency , an executive arm of the Department of Social Services , has announced that it is switching its operation from Holyhead to Llangefni , 16 miles away . |
| 21 | Ram is expanding its range of clubs with the introduction of the new Tom Watson Cobalt 53 , 55 and 58 degrees wedges . |
| 22 | Morton is expanding its operation at Dewsbury in the UK to make the solid resin where previously the resin was shipped in from the US and was only put into solution in the UK . |
| 23 | Samsung Electronics Co is expanding its tie with Hewlett-Packard Co and last week announced a two-year order for $50m of Precision Architecture RISC workstations . |
| 24 | PLAN International , a long-term development organisation which spent over £90 million on integrated projects in the developing world last year , is expanding its operations into Uganda , Tanzania and Ghana in 1993 , bringing PLAN 's programme countries to a total of 28 . |
| 25 | AIRTOURS is expanding its chain of travel agents with a £25m acquisition from Hogg Robinson , of Woking , Surrey , it emerged today . |
| 26 | AIRTOURS is expanding its chain of travel agents with a £25m acquisition from Hogg Robinson , it said yesterday . |
| 27 | The United Arab Emirates opened up its market for telephones , facsimile machines , modems and other equipment on April 1 but the state operator , Etisalat , is retaining its monopoly in telephone services . |
| 28 | The next extract by Urie Bronfenbrenner ( 1.6 ) is taken from his comparative study of child-rearing in the Soviet Union and the USA , in which he argues that the status of the American family has diminished , that it is losing its influence over children . |
| 29 | Together , these two points suggest that the state is losing its control over events . |
| 30 | AT&T Co announced in Dublin that it is closing its plant in Donegal , northwest Ireland , at the cost of 63 jobs , and is also cutting 50 jobs at its plant in Bray , in the east . |