Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [n mass] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A GIANT wall chart is helping staff at Portobello Branch to achieve their Royal Scottish sales target . |
| 2 | Nottingham Forest 's new manager Frank Clark is demanding £5m for Keane but says Blackburn have only offered £3.5m . |
| 3 | Spring Ram , based at Birstall , near Batley , West Yorkshire , is bidding 160p per share . |
| 4 | Essex TEC is contributing £40,000 towards courses being run across the county by the Essex Association for Voluntary Service . |
| 5 | IBM Corp has been sued by E-Systems Inc , which alleges that it broke a contract for electronics work on an Air Force aircraft : according to the Dallas Morning News , E-Systems is seeking $65m in damages from IBM ; the dispute involves the Talon Combat II aircraft , which IBM is building with Lockheed Corp ; E-Systems signed a 1988 agreement to integrate and install equipment on the plane as an IBM subcontractor . |
| 6 | Examples from the August bulletin include a growing North Staffordshire company involved in decorating and printing bone chinaware , earthenware , glassware and so on , which is seeking £30,000 for expansion , and a company based in the south west that has launched a range of power cables and requires £75,000 . |
| 7 | To pay for all this LWT is turning £50m of cash into £72.5m of debt . |
| 8 | And BP Coal is paying £1,000 per borehole , which is a lot of money if you 're a small farmer who is dependent upon eel fishing for economic survival . |
| 9 | China Merchant Holdings , one of China 's two biggest shipping operators , is paying £55m to P&O , which is reducing its interest in Modern Terminals from 23 p.c. to 14 p.c . |
| 10 | Of course she really owes the whole of the second £30 to the lender ; but from the point of view of her budgeting , she is paying £33 in instalments for under £16 in her hand . |
| 11 | Cable and Wireless is selling 20% of Mercury Communications to the Canadian BCE for £480m . |
| 12 | BP is providing £1m of sponsorship . |
| 13 | What we are in the business of doing is providing people with houses who are in housing need . |
| 14 | London Underground is spending £100,000 on research to find out why so many of us like to toss ourselves on the rails . |
| 15 | During the worst recession for half a century the British government is committing £55m to Manchester 's bid to stage the 2000 Olympics . |
| 16 | With NEC Corp taking 5% of Silicon Graphics Inc , which in turn is taking 10% of Control Data Systems Inc while NEC mulls a small stake , the three are as close as this and NEC is reportedly discussing selling low-end R-series workstations OEM to Silicon Graphics and taking high-end three-dimensional Iris models in return . |
| 17 | Because of the fact that unit costs only raise red flags , the onus is on any analyst who is comparing statistics between authorities to explore all the possible explanations for differences before coming to conclusions . |
| 18 | In Millbank , RAAB is showing works on paper and prints by Ken Currie ( who has created seven new heads in oil , charcoal and beeswax ) , Keith McIntyre , Ian Hughes and Richard Gilbert ( to 27 February ) , while Long and Ryle exhibit ‘ Dreams ’ , twelve small but intense gouaches by Argentinian painter , Ricardo Cinalli . |
| 19 | The Barbier-Beltz gallery is showing works on paper by the painter Erik Dietman : nordic fables , to which the energetic Swede has given the title ‘ Papa pied / Papy Erik ’ . |
| 20 | Sandra Gering is showing works by Dove Bradshaw , an artist close to the late John Cage and much influenced by his ideas ( 3 April-1 May ) . |
| 21 | Galerie Pierre Brulle which opens this summer on rue Tournon on the Left Bank is showing works by Jean Helion and 1930s German artist Karl Hubbuch , while Galerie Claude Bernard is staging a one man show of pastels , drawings and watercolours by French artist Jacques Truphemus . |
| 22 | Isabelle Bongard is showing works by Dumas until the middle of the month . |
| 23 | After exploring Alfonso Ossorio 's New York period in the Fifties and Sixties , Zabriskie is showing works by Mary Frank , inspired by folk stories , the Bible and classical myth . |
| 24 | Similarly , if one person is obtaining data on behalf of another , they should both be registered . |
| 25 | The X Business Group is predicting sales of PC X servers will top 175,000 units this year , up 300% from 1991 , when total shipments were 58,500 , with database application by far the most popular . |
| 26 | The Ministry of Defence is decamping staff to Newcastle while the Department of Social Security is sending 350 jobs to Belfast . |
| 27 | YORK-based Croft Hotels is investing £80,000 in training and presentation equipment for its Fairfield Manor Hotel , near York . |
| 28 | Cook , now owned by Germany 's WestDeutsche Landsbank and LTU , is subscribing for 22.5m new shares in OA at 100p each and in return the tour operator , run by Howard Klein , is investing £20m in Cook 9.33% fixed-rate loan notes , redeemable in the year 2002 . |
| 29 | LONDON & Manchester Group , hard hit by the slump in the commercial and residential property markets , is digging £12¼m into reserves to lift its dividend total from 13.32p to 13.57p , with a 9.14p final on June 3 . |
| 30 | BP is supplying 550KW of high-efficiency ( Saturn ) solar modules . |