Example sentences of "[noun sg] are [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McDunn really wants to help , I can see that , but he 's under pressure , too ; the circumstantial evidence against me is so strong people who do n't know the details of the case are getting impatient over the lack of progress . |
| 2 | THREE FIRMS AN HOUR ARE GOING BUST |
| 3 | The Department of the Environment and Ministry of Agriculture are providing technical advice for the project . |
| 4 | IBM Corp and National Semiconductor Corp are pushing isochronous Ethernet , a new variant of the local area network standard that promises smooth multimedia communications . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , the scientific hypotheses for atmospheric change are becoming complicated . |
| 6 | As companies become more global , their policies towards corporate social responsibility are going global too . |
| 7 | In order to provide financial security through the 90s , clear fiscal policies at National and Divisional level are becoming necessary . |
| 8 | Now women participating in the liberation struggle are finding new roles . |
| 9 | Dendrochronology and infra-red photography are giving surprising results among Netherlandish paintings at the Metropolitan Museum |
| 10 | The developers of a golf course are facing criminal prosecution for blocking footpaths with a club house and an ornamental lake . |
| 11 | Its four franchises in the South West are booming due to a successful advertiing formula . |
| 12 | One is aware that educators in this field are treading sacred ground and expose themselves to accusations that they create unrealistic expectations ( say , elaborate rituals ) , or that they encroach upon the territory of other professionals ( the Clergy , perhaps ) . |
| 13 | As a result , many varieties of tropical hardwood are becoming endangered , like mahogany and teak . |
| 14 | Global industries , such as securities and commercial banking are using isolated systems less and less , and are instead becoming increasingly dependent on both voice and data networks . |
| 15 | His opponents in the April 9 contest are sitting Labour MP Giles Radice and Tory candidate Elizabeth Sibley an NHS medical secretary from London . |
| 16 | The Bristol player suffered a broken cheekbone and his club are considering legal action against Penney … but the United bench were angry too |
| 17 | Good progress is being made in new drug research and development and early clinical trials of an orally administered anti-cancer drug and a new diagnostic agent are giving encouraging results . |
| 18 | ‘ Throughout the world customers in medicine , industry and research are facing increasing environmental and regulatory pressure , ’ added Philip . |
| 19 | The workshop identified key areas where lack of knowledge and research are hindering effective and speedy action to combat global warming . |
| 20 | It is just past midnight and many of the cadets from Old College are guarding well-concealed patrol bases in remote valleys and woods up in the Welsh hills near Sennybridge . |
| 21 | Perhaps Auslan Cramb meant to claim ( as he has done before ) that carbon dioxide emissions from combustion are causing global warming ( a slight increase in the greenhouse effect raising the temperature of the Earth ) . |
| 22 | BIG-MONEY court-battles over the dereliction of the American nuclear industry are growing popular . |
| 23 | He does not deny that some scientists and engineers in British industry are doing world-class research — the signal and image processing work at British Telecom 's labs is an example , says Sir Eric — but he would argue that there are no world-class labs as such in the UK , nowhere that has attained the kind of critical mass in R&D that Bell Labs has in the US or Hitachi and NEC in Japan . |
| 24 | The time the ‘ study ’ is taking is worrying — and some key names in British industry are becoming restive ( This Week , p 357 ) . |
| 25 | Psychobiology is particularly exciting at the moment because advances in instrumentation are bringing us new ways of studying the brain while areas like artificial intelligence are providing new ways of thinking about how it might work as the ‘ organ of behaviour ’ . |
| 26 | Esoteric cults proliferate and many attempts , like astrology , to make links between human lives and the pattern of the universe are attracting new adherents . |
| 27 | But he insisted : ‘ Taken together , the National Curriculum and testing are helping open schools to public scrutiny and improve standards . ’ |
| 28 | The majority of present-day carers are married , although many in this bracket are living alone and supporting themselves and possibly a family too . |
| 29 | The books on user involvement by Suzy Croft and Peter Beresford covered in 11 March issue are Getting Involved , available from Open Services Project , , price £5.95 , and Citizen Involvement : A Practical Guide for Change , price £9.50 published by Macmillan . |
| 30 | Members of the meat trade , auctioneers and the dairy sector are planning major fund-raising activities on a province-wide bases . |