Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [pron] is [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unabashed by this thought , she adds that she is thinking seriously about it , and is prepared to meet party officials to discuss it . |
| 2 | Sir Terence adds that he is enclosing for Christopher Patten a copy of the rules which the Cabinet Office has issued for the guidance of officials ‘ on such exercises ’ . |
| 3 | At the age of 37 — old by Australian standards — Border accepts that he is nearing the end of his career but he is desparate to prolong it for two reasons . |
| 4 | Looks like everything is falling into place … |
| 5 | Royal watcher Margaret Holder said : ‘ It looks like it is going to be an unhappy time for the Queen and everyone else . |
| 6 | Mr Stannard was now contemplating Edward with the air of a man who wonders if he is getting his money 's worth . |
| 7 | After setting the scene this use of description slightly declines unless he is introducing a new character or scene . |
| 8 | ‘ She thinks that she is helping and encouraging me . ’ |
| 9 | Part of me thinks that he is setting a useful precedent . |
| 10 | Often the instructor or pilot knows the correct recovery and thinks that he is using it , but because of the unusual forces on the controls , he is failing to apply the full recovery action . |
| 11 | As you can see from the figure on the page opposite the man thinks that he is standing up straight when anyone can see , at a glance , that he is leaning backwards from the waist . |
| 12 | Letterman thinks that he is failing in love with her but he has the impression that she is using his cosseted and lineamented body in some sinister fashion . |
| 13 | But David Dein , the Arsenal vice-chairman martyred for his part in the deal , insists that it is working ‘ eminently satisfactorily ’ . |
| 14 | One then says that one is doing a ‘ numerical experiment ’ . |
| 15 | As soon as one says that one is going to study organizational life indeed , any aspect of human life — one runs up against the problem of what lens to use to view the scene . |
| 16 | Prices have yet to be set , but the company says that it is looking at $3,000 to $5,000 for a development kit and around $100 per user for run-time use . |
| 17 | Prices have yet to be set , but the company says that it is looking at $3,000 to $5,000 for a development kit and around $100 per user for run-time use . |
| 18 | ( Sun says that it is getting 50MHz parts now . ) |
| 19 | Not surprisingly , given the number of new products it has on the go , the company says that it is ploughing some 12% of its turnover back into research and development . |
| 20 | In fact IBM says that it is pushing the MPTN technology as a standard as long ago as December 1991 when it submitted the underlying MPTN approach to the XNET workgroup of X/Open Co Ltd , which is still considering it . |
| 21 | The council says that it is speaking up for smokers . |
| 22 | Becker says that it is expecting too much of Third world bourgeoisies to think they can bring about societal transformations on a grand scale or act in the ‘ heroic ’ way of entrepreneurs a century ago ( Becker 1983 ) . |
| 23 | The company now says that it is producing some 20 million metres of VHS tape per month — enough to fill more than 100 000 cassettes . |
| 24 | The department says that it is seeking advice from the Committee on safety of Medicines on B17 . |
| 25 | Autodesk Inc , Sausalito , California has decided that IBM Corp 's Cadam Inc computer-aided design software base is ripe for plundering , and is developing two Cadam-emulation products , Aemulus and Aemulus(mf) , which are now in alpha test : the products , which offer a Cadam-like user interface and bi-directional compatibility with Cadam files , are also compatible with AutoCAD Release 12 ; Aemulus is an AutoCAD Development System application with a Cadam-like graphics interface and command set and enables customers to edit existing Cadam models or create new Cadam-compatible models on the desktop ; Aemulus(mf) is a mainframe-resident program that enables customers to quickly and completely convert Cadam two-dimensional Interactive Drawing files to DXF files or vice versa ; both are set for shipment in May 1993 but pricing has not yet been decided ; the company also says that it is expanding its product line beyond the drafting portion of the design spectrum it has traditionally occupied to cover the entire spectrum from conceptualisation to manufacturing , and that as a first step its three top-selling drafting and design packages , AutoCAD , Generic CADD and AutoSketch , have been brought together under one organisational umbrella , and are being precisely defined and clarified in terms of their relationship to each other ; development is under way to enable the three products to work together and share files across networks . |
| 26 | The company says that it is making do with a single Intel Corp 80486 processor to drive the device currently . |
| 27 | It was awfully sporting of IBM Corp to set up consultancy , systems integration and facilities management ventures in an attempt to put to profitable use the surplus skills of so many of its employees , and only curmudgeons asked if IBMers were actually the right people for the job : sad to say , the curmudgeons were right , and according to Computerworld , the head of the new IBM Consulting Group in White Plains , New York , Robert Howe , says that it is having to hire people from the likes of Andersen Consulting and Coopers & Lybrand , because as he told the paper , ‘ we 've tried IBMers , but frankly we 've had to send some home — some IBM people did n't get the notion of the service business — they did n't understand that we did n't want administrators and middle managers ’ . |
| 28 | Although SynOptics already participates in Management Information Base testing for interoperability with NetView/6000 , it says that it is planning to expand this to other management elements such as remote monitoring — RMON , and SNMP Version II agents . |
| 29 | NEC says that it is planning to create artificial neural network systems to analyse exchange rates and interest rate fluctuations as well . |
| 30 | The company is understood to have abandoned development of the Repository altogether , and the switch of strategy leaves the whole AD/Cycle concept in complete disarray , though the company says that it is reaffirming support for the AD/Cycle tools available : to do anything else would leave the company open to all manner of retaliation from AD/Cycle International Alliance Members . |