Example sentences of "and is [adv] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The uniform ‘ polis ’ , by contrast , feels that regardless of the offence or its value , he is primarily dealing ‘ at first hand ’ with ‘ prigs ’ and is thus fulfilling another metaphorically prized position as ‘ a good collar feeler ’ . |
| 2 | AEI is being billed electronically by the airlines , and is similarly billing some of its customers ; Intel , for example . |
| 3 | Pint-sized Brenda appears with husband John as the Krack and Dorn duo , does a children 's magic act , and is fast becoming one of the stars of the after-dinner speaking circuit . |
| 4 | Every industrialized country faces similar problems and is either considering similar solutions or has already implemented some of them . |
| 5 | SELLAFIELD 'S new hi-tech laundry opened this month and is already attracting international interest . |
| 6 | In both these situations , the buyer is assured of a return of the original price plus interest and is not taking any significantly greater risk than if it made a loan secured on the property concerned . |
| 7 | Unable to perform any part of his normal occupation , and is not following any other gainful occupation D. |
| 8 | In addition to continuing to maintain the library , she has now been appointed book review editor of Media Development , and is also undertaking various other assignments . |
| 9 | The Diamond band is still around and is also producing more records with Emerald . |
| 10 | AT&T Co announced in Dublin that it is closing its plant in Donegal , northwest Ireland , at the cost of 63 jobs , and is also cutting 50 jobs at its plant in Bray , in the east . |
| 11 | AT&T Co announced in Dublin that it is closing its plant in Donegal , northwest Ireland , at the cost of 63 jobs , and is also cutting 50 jobs at its plant in Bray , in the east . |
| 12 | Ali is dressed in a suit and tie and is playfully winging clownish punches at everybody around him . |
| 13 | The board dismissed him for ‘ gross misconduct and gross professional negligence ’ and is still considering legal steps to recover the cash . |
| 14 | So er er er this was this was and is still gathering more powers into the hands of the Home Secretary . |
| 15 | Ending months of speculation , Santa Cruz Operation Inc says ‘ the process to do an initial public offering has begun ’ : the Unix-on-iAPX-86 software house reported revenues of $160m to September last year and is still digesting last week 's acquisition of Cambridge firm , IXI Ltd ; Santa Cruz has appointed an unnamed investment banker to handle the US flotation , but no further details were available as went to press . |
| 16 | Other ‘ collectables ’ are the single sheet almanacks of the tradesman and workshop variety , and the products of the perennial ‘ Old Moore ’ who , possessed of the secret of eternal youth , began prophesying in 1699 and is still going strong . |
| 17 | For the world 's longest-running play , Agatha Christie 's The Mousetrap , celebrates its 40th birthday this month and is still going strong . |
| 18 | Mrs Whitehouse 's concern with the output of the major broadcasting companies began in the early 1960s and is still going strong today almost thirty years later . |
| 19 | This has survived for well over two hundred years and is still going strong as an efficient method of information-retrieval . |
| 20 | It is just possible that this is exactly the situation that we face when , as individuals , we experience these stages , and it may certainly be the situation that , as psychoanalysts , we encounter when we try to reconstruct the phases of ego- and superego-development from the sole evidence of the clinical analysis of individuals ( For instance , I strongly suspect that this fact has seriously misled the Kleinian school in its theory of developmental stages and is still obscuring much of the psychological structure of the psychoses , and perhaps the neuroses too . ) |
| 21 | Grail engineering employs forty people , and is currently training twelve apprentices . |
| 22 | With mainframes , for example , ICL has won compliance with X/Open Co Ltd standards , and is currently seeking XPG-4 accreditation . |
| 23 | The company , which has pretty much limited itself to the German market so far , is also looking to peddle its suite of software products across the border , in France , and is currently courting French distributors . |
| 24 | He is even signed to a UK-based record label , Invasion , and is currently touring British rock venues with support from wry , introspective folkies Balloon . |
| 25 | With these LM potencies she is feeling stronger than ever without aggravation and is currently taking 0/7 . |
| 26 | Stan has now rediscovered the fish bed and is currently preparing new specimens to astonish and delight the world . |
| 27 | She tells me I 'm ‘ fat ’ and is always making derogatory remarks and criticising . |
| 28 | All round the feeling has been that by developing political representation , cooperation has increased its hold on the general public and is daily attracting new adherents to its principles . |
| 29 | This page : Rap styles first came to the UK via films like Wildstyle and Breakdance , and is now enjoying new interest from Hollywood after the huge US success of Kid N' Play 's House Party ( left ) . |
| 30 | The government 's watching the outcome of this case and is now taking mental stress at work very seriously . |