Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | At Gillingham , in close consultation with the primary and middle schools which feed the comprehensive , the science department is working on the list of 17 attainment targets including ( 5 ) Human Influences on the Earth , ( 15 ) Using Light and Electro-Magnetic Radiation , and ( 17 ) The Nature of Science . |
| 32 | What can be said for them is that if the High Priest is acting in the fullest awareness at present attainable by his people , it is right for him to perform the sacrifice , just as it would be right for a Western onlooker to try to dissuade him ; he is not like a Nazi who has voluntarily shut himself off from the knowledge of biology and history and the personal sensitivity attained by the culture of the Weimar Republic . |
| 33 | Addiction to the drug crack cocaine is spreading into the shire counties . |
| 34 | The research is looking at the issues from a variety of angles . |
| 35 | This boat is lying in the Bay of Biscay . |
| 36 | The second storyline is going for the wider market , and some might argue , a little too near-the-knuckle for such an early evening show . |
| 37 | The study is building on the substantial data collection made by the Personal Social Services Research Unit in 1983 from these sectors . |
| 38 | Fifthly , conflicting central guidance is emerging about the statutory requirements to provide services for people whose assessments show up unmet needs , or even to inform people about the results of assessment . |
| 39 | It 's been hot all the car is going along the motorway at a constant speed . |
| 40 | A light snow is falling on the village of Berrien Springs , Michigan . |
| 41 | When Keith gets back to his flat the personal organizer is sitting by the phone leering at him . |
| 42 | Kermode is referring to the demise of the man of letters , or the ‘ bookman ’ as he became known in late-Victorian England , and his replacement by the professionalized university critic . |
| 43 | This effect is best corrected by observing the exhaust smoke and trimming the model so that the tail boom is pointing in the same direction that the smoke is being blown . |
| 44 | Water is normally paid for via the water rates , but the water industry is looking at the feasibility of water metering in the future . |
| 45 | But according Mr Marek Dabrowski , a deputy finance minister , the screws will not be loosened much until there are signs that Polish industry is adjusting to the real world . |
| 46 | Industry is coming to the city . |
| 47 | The Government refuses to publish reports showing whether the tobacco industry is keeping to the voluntary agreements that restrict tobacco advertising near schools . |
| 48 | Jamaica 's media industry is reeling under the country 's economic crisis because of a heavy dependence on imported materials , Franklyn McKnight , President of the Press Association of Jamaica ( PAJ ) , said . |
| 49 | The food and drink industry is responding to the undoubted demand for low and no-alcohol drinks . |
| 50 | The hotel industry is responding to the leisure boom with developments taking place at both large and small establishments in the United Kingdom . |
| 51 | Since you left Europe , the car market had deteriorated ; does Europe have anything to learn from the way the US car industry is coping with the recession ? |
| 52 | Now the tobacco industry is going for the slightly more subtle form of advertising which is sponsorship . |
| 53 | And the light is fading over the deaths which take place right upstage . |
| 54 | TO golfers , whose appetite for party political broadcasts have been dulled to the point of anorexia , a light is breaking in the western sky . |
| 55 | The word light is flashing on the screen or shall I just not worry about it ? |
| 56 | If light is moving in the direction labelled z in the figure , it has two distinct possibilities of polarisation , corresponding to oscillations in the two mutually perpendicular directions x and y respectively . |
| 57 | By summer evenings the Great Bear is descending in the north-west , while Leo has almost gone ; the Square of Pegasus has come into view in the east . |
| 58 | Investment is moving into the growth areas of forestry and tourism . |
| 59 | Labour is losing in the 1990s because it is like those 19th-century Liberals . |
| 60 | I find that quite incredible , if it 's true erm if it 's true then it 's a very serious allegation which Labour is making against the officers in social services department and I imagine that if er , that if those numbers are proven then er I I shall be looking I shall be looking for scalps because I have been , I would have been , so would the Liberal party and so would the Labour party , have been wrongly informed . |