Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The board are currently selecting a short list of candidates who have been introduced to us independently by Pro Ned Limited . |
| 2 | Evidence collected by the Council for the Protection of Rural England ( CPRE ) shows that officials of the Ministry of Agriculture are now levying charges on farmers for advice on conservation . |
| 3 | As Christiansson ( 1988 ) describes , rotational bush-fallowing and permanent agriculture are gradually replacing shifting cultivation in an area that experiences a long dry season and a short intense wet season . |
| 4 | NatSemi and IBM Corp are both planning products next year ( CI No 2,146 ) . |
| 5 | It 's becoming fashionable to buy in rather than build specialised servers — IBM Corp and Digital Equipment Corp are both doing it , and now ICL Plc has gone to Burlington , Massachusetts-based Xylogics Inc for the Annex Three and Micro Annex XL communications servers under an OEM agreement that will see the UK company marketing them as the DRS local network terminal server line with its DRS 6000 range of Sparc-based and DRS 3000 iAPX-86-based Unix systems . |
| 6 | Clustering of RISC computers is seen as a promising new area of activity and Hewlett-Packard Co and Convex Computer Corp are reportedly studying an expansion of their alliance to include the joint development of a clustered computing environment for HP 's Precision Architecture RISC workstations . |
| 7 | IBM Corp and Microsoft Corp are apparently working together on a project to put Windows NT up on the PowerPC RISC . |
| 8 | Lowland Philippine political culture is relevant to the Buid because lowlanders are continually trying to draw the Buid into it , and the Buid are continually trying to resist it . |
| 9 | It has been such a success within the company over recent months that JT Design Build are now making it available throughout the construction industry and to the industry 's clients . |
| 10 | The distinctions at this high level are relatively unilluminating : we can better see how feeding ecology and feeding behaviour interact if we examine more closely a smaller group of species . |
| 11 | All 36 species of big cat are either vulnerable or endangered and the tiger , the cheetah , the snow leopard , the jaguar and the cougar are now facing extinction . |
| 12 | People engaged in challenging racism are increasingly opting to collude with the clerical agenda . |
| 13 | Some 20,000 researchers at the base are already working on a top secret new THStyme product set for launch next spring , which Peddle promises ‘ will change the way that people use computers ’ . |
| 14 | West Custom Marine are now establishing in a modern yard nest to Lymington station . |
| 15 | Geographical Information Systems that can run on a personal computer are now becoming available ; examples are SPANS and PC-ARC/INFO . |
| 16 | The moral majority are just defeating their own aims . |
| 17 | The moral majority are just defeating their own aims . |
| 18 | ‘ Is that what the majority are really saying at your plant ? ’ asked Bunker . |
| 19 | But if the majority are still hesitating , some are at last being lured into the market — and more must follow to make even a modest recovery possible . |
| 20 | Other problems associated with the drug are still emerging . |
| 21 | The biggest problem is gold miners , and the diseases they have brought with them — malaria and TB are still causing high death rates ( between January and August this year one Yanomami died every two to five days from disease ) . |
| 22 | With the continued planned decline of the Canberra force — 100 Squadron are already re-equipping with Hawks — it now seems most unlikely that the OCU will reform . |
| 23 | In the cinema foyer the two old ladies who run the cinema are both dispensing and receiving abuse from all sides as to the quality of the night 's offerings , Storm Over the Nile and Voodoo Woman . |
| 24 | Another strand of our present voluntary sector are the self-help groups which of course are also going to be extremely individual , and one third point , Madam Chairman , the development of not for profit companies and things like that could also have a very individual strand to them as well since they sound a little bit like our existing small business sector under a community name . |
| 25 | Most charities with over £100,000 income are already having an audit . |
| 26 | Your student days at Nottingham may be over but your links with the University are just beginning . |
| 27 | Staff at the university are also seeking an urgent meeting with Andrew Armstrong , chairman of the board of governors , to discuss the dispute . |
| 28 | Scientists at Liverpool University are now drawing up a breeding programme for the UK herd . |
| 29 | RESEARCHERS at Princeton University are now working on an experiment that will , later this year , try out a way of polarising atoms of some of the isotopes of hydrogen . |
| 30 | Now his younger brother and sister are also studying at home . |