Example sentences of "[pron] is [adv] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This project , we 're very pleased , is directed by Doctor Eric Briot , you may remember was the Chief Education Officer in London until he retired and came to lead this project , and a man of very great standing in education field , and what he 's looking at is the effect of the falling school populations , which is already hitting primary schools , on these large comprehensives that we 've created . |
| 2 | Although Interactive Systems Corp products will decline as competitive offerings now that the company has been incorporated into SunSoft Inc , Unix-on-Intel house , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , is likely to face increasingly stiff competition on its turf from the likes of SunSoft , with its Solaris-on-Intel play , Unix System Labs Inc/Univel Inc , which is already proclaiming great things for its cut-down , shrink-wrapped Destiny desktop and NeXT Computer Inc 's NextStep environment , if it ever finds its way on to Compaq Computer Corp or any other machines . |
| 3 | This leaves just two aircraft out working : the Gazelle Which went out this morning , and a Scout which is out practising abseiling drills on the far side of the airfield . |
| 4 | The idea of ‘ revolution ’ can set the pulses racing , for a time at least , and in 1980 it was invoked by Catherine Belsey : ‘ Only by closing the doors of the English department against theoretical challenges from outside can we continue to ignore the ‘ Copernican' ’ revolution which is currently taking place , and which is radically undermining traditional ways of perceiving both the world and the text . ’ |
| 5 | Another boost for the Newtownards firm was revealed last week — all the acoustic guitars on the Hothouse Flowers ' new album , Songs From the Rain , which is currently riding high at No 7 in the charts — are exclusively Lowden ! |
| 6 | They are especially obvious in feminist psychology , which is always supplementing scientific psychological narrative with stories and examples . |
| 7 | It now has wholly-owned offices in Paris , Amsterdam , Brussels , Frankfurt , Geneva , Stockholm and Gothenburg , is a shareholder in a well-established US firm and has associate arrangements in the USA and elsewhere , enabling it to sustain an annual growth rate of between 20% and 30% which is now generating annual total fees of up to £5m . |
| 8 | But the problem can take different forms , one of which is now receiving political attention , while the other — the demographic shift — is probably neither fully recognised nor understood by small and medium enterprises . |
| 9 | THE EC single market has already made an impact on Ilkley 's Alternative Medicine Consultancy Centre which is now going international thanks to the town 's twinning with Coutances in France , |
| 10 | And is that the only thing which would influence you to call off this strike , which is obviously doing great harm to the company and the country ? ’ the interviewer asked . |
| 11 | The condition of the liver transplant patient Mrs Aisling Barnett has improved since she was given a Japanese drug , which is still undergoing clinical trials , to stop her body rejecting her new liver . |
| 12 | He also inaugurated a regional branch of the Ileostomy Association , one of the first self-help groups of its kind , which is still going strong . |
| 13 | Do not the problems of the third world , which is still suffering economic deprivation , need to be addressed ? |
| 14 | She is also preparing individual books of each star sign 's future next year . |
| 15 | She is also making good progress at her spinning wheel . |
| 16 | She is already gaining considerable performing experience and has recently been the soloist in both the Fauré and Brahms Requiems , Haydn 's Nelson Mass and Mozart 's Coronation Mass . |
| 17 | Although FAB 3 is , as yet , only a prototype , and there are many months of intensive trials and development ahead before a class of lifeboats based on her can enter service , she is already showing great promise . |
| 18 | Her previous publications have addressed family care and community care in relation to older people and she is currently researching alternative forms of long term care for this group . |
| 19 | Susan : Mrs C is prejudiced herself because , I mean , she said to Karen that she is only getting bad because she hangs around with too many black people . |
| 20 | As usual , Len had side-tracked himself , but what would his reaction have been if he had satisfied his curiosity and said , ‘ Yes , I have a mother : she is now living alone in a manor house in Northumberland , ’ and had gone on to tell him , why . |
| 21 | She is now considering other TV offers . |
| 22 | As she is now studying fell-time for the Ministry , she resigned from the post at the end of October , 1991 , and we have appointed another worker , Mrs . |
| 23 | But she is rapidly growing demoralised by her situation and is increasingly disinclined to do very much . |
| 24 | She regularly employs her grandmother , ‘ who 's the best seamstress I 'll ever find — she teaches all the others to sew beautifully ’ , and , after school , a 14-year-old girl who is already showing great design ability . |
| 25 | A child who is not feeling well will stop eating temporarily and rapidly lose weight over a short period but this will be regained equally quickly once the child has recovered . |
| 26 | It is unacceptable to think of the person who is maybe dying wanting something that is not delivered . |
| 27 | This will give everyone else who is still waiting fresh hope . ’ |
| 28 | One is not comparing like with like , however , and the grammar schools had a slightly more advantaged intake , less ambiguity as to the goals of the school and had not suffered the upset of reorganisation . |
| 29 | But in reality the amount and type of support which kin give each other varies with the particular historical circumstances within which family relationships are played out , so that looking at patterns of support at different points in time means that one is not comparing like with like in quite significant ways : there is variation both in people 's need for support and in the capacity of relatives to provide it . |
| 30 | There is nothing superficial in comparing works of different times and cultures , so long as one is not making glib suggestions of direct linkages between them . |