Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | From the blurred picture you can see the vital point when the clubhead is catching up with the hands . |
| 3 | That batch , the most intriguing of all , has included in recent months five members of the Grand Slam squad — Leonard , who is recovering well from a neck operation but must rest , Morris , Pears , Rodber and Heslop . |
| 4 | JULIA SOMERVILLE is recovering well from the removal of a brain tumour . |
| 5 | Siteke Ubial Susey is recovering rapidly from the bullet wound he received during an attack outside his house in Kinshasa in July ( see Action number 162 , page 1 ) . |
| 6 | The beast is gazing disconsolately at the ground , its architectural studies abandoned . |
| 7 | Maggie is drawing close to the bar . |
| 8 | Mrs Strange used to be at the piano when Seven Towers sang and now that she is stepping up to the rostrum , Kathryn , daughter of bass singer and choir secretary Jack Clarke , is replacing her . |
| 9 | It is not only labour that the economic power of Bangkok is sucking out of the north-east . |
| 10 | The label of his white cotton underwear is sticking out of the top of his pants . |
| 11 | If you want to bless me you can bless my bottom , for it is sticking out of the hole . " " |
| 12 | But an enormous backlog of untaxed cases of wine is building up in the producers ' warehouses . |
| 13 | The undeniable fact is that chlorine is building up in the atmosphere much faster than it can be coped with . |
| 14 | There is always a danger of war when you have a face to face confrontation that is building up in the Gulf at the moment . |
| 15 | There are encouraging signs , however , that the TV western is struggling back into the saddle . |
| 16 | each cluster is careering forward like a bolas . |
| 17 | And do you know what , one of them is wading around in the middle of the loch , up to his waist in the water . ’ |
| 18 | I am delighted that the recently privatised Harland and Wolff now has the longest order book in its history , with £565 million worth of orders , that it is competing successfully with the Koreans and the Japanese , that the future of 2,500 of its people is assured and that it is the premier shipyard in the United Kingdom . |
| 19 | THE NORTH-EAST is gearing up for a bumper celebration of European arts and entertainment . |
| 20 | BARCLAYS , the biggest plastic card issuer , is gearing up for a blitz on card fraud in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 21 | Nearer , a blur of smoke and mist is simmering up from the snow , among all the spikiness of spire and steeple , chimney-stack and telegraph pole , the pinnacles of chapels and ventilators of schools . |
| 22 | The beast is becoming almost like a God , Jack pretends to forget about it , Simon wants to confront it , whereas Piggy compromises by wanting just to stay away from it . |
| 23 | I think that we should accept th that this island in which we live is in effect becoming smaller day-by-day , as it is becoming more and more open er we should accept that its population is becoming perhaps with the assistance of a little advice from myself from time-to-time , rather more mobile than it used to be and I must say that we should I think all accept and I 'm sure we do that criminals do not have any particular respect for local authority boundaries er indeed the existence of the motorway system er despite the M25 does encourage mobility of crime and criminals to a very great extent . |
| 24 | In any event , rail travel is becoming more like a dice game . |
| 25 | The labour force is becoming more like the military with the use of a limited age range and the screening out of anyone with any kind of disability who might not be able to work at a pace and with the flexibility and precision which will maintain the return on the very large capital investment . |
| 26 | Julian whose home is at Seamer , near Scarborough is currently the assistant cruise director in the Caribbean and is returning home for the presentation ceremony next month . |
| 27 | — Maxine Barrie , the Shirley Bassey lookalike who came out on top in the Granada TV Stars In Your Eyes programme , is appearing tonight at the Shotton Hall Banqueting Suite , Peterlee in a Valentine 's Night Special . |
| 28 | Although Shaker has become fashionable and ‘ Shaker style ’ furniture is appearing all over the place , very little of it bears much relation to the real thing . |
| 29 | This concrete path is cracking up under the strain of thousands of paws padding over it . |
| 30 | Thus , while the north has suffered most of the job loss resuIting from deindustrialization , the south is gaining most from the rise of new sectors . |