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 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 . |
| 7 | The Diamond band is still around and is also producing more records with Emerald . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Ali is dressed in a suit and tie and is playfully winging clownish punches at everybody around him . |
| 11 | The board dismissed him for ‘ gross misconduct and gross professional negligence ’ and is still considering legal steps to recover the cash . |
| 12 | So er er er this was this was and is still gathering more powers into the hands of the Home Secretary . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | For the world 's longest-running play , Agatha Christie 's The Mousetrap , celebrates its 40th birthday this month and is still going strong . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This has survived for well over two hundred years and is still going strong as an efficient method of information-retrieval . |
| 18 | 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 . ) |
| 19 | Grail engineering employs forty people , and is currently training twelve apprentices . |
| 20 | With mainframes , for example , ICL has won compliance with X/Open Co Ltd standards , and is currently seeking XPG-4 accreditation . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | With these LM potencies she is feeling stronger than ever without aggravation and is currently taking 0/7 . |
| 24 | Stan has now rediscovered the fish bed and is currently preparing new specimens to astonish and delight the world . |
| 25 | She tells me I 'm ‘ fat ’ and is always making derogatory remarks and criticising . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | The government 's watching the outcome of this case and is now taking mental stress at work very seriously . |
| 29 | The Pharmacopoeia has played an increasingly important role in defining common criteria and control standards for medicinal substances and is now developing analytical methods for solvent and pesticide residues and strengthening its role in the standardisation of biologicals such as blood products and vaccines . |
| 30 | He is wearing his traditional outfit of pinstriped suit , pinstriped shirt , spotted tie and Gucci shoes ; or perhaps he has been home and changed , and is now sporting yellow cords , a maroon V-necked jersey , and highly polished brown brogues . |