Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To show this , consider an individual firm which-is operating in perfectly competitive labour and product markets and suppose that all jobs and workers are homogeneous . |
| 2 | But he s doing remarkably well considering he is a natural right winger . |
| 3 | He s doing better now than Speed did in the side when he first came in — Speed tended to be rather anonymous ( something Wilko actually said too ) , but he had the potential to ‘ have people leaving the ground saying ‘ That No. 11 was a good little player ’ ' , those were Wilkos very words . |
| 4 | THE directors of a small Borders textile business , which has landed its largest order , from Japan , claim that the region 's local enterprise company is devoting too many of its resources to large firms . |
| 5 | She 's ten years old and she 's sucking up her clothes . |
| 6 | Jesus , he 's sucking in air at the back and wuffing it out at the front . |
| 7 | but life generally is helping Well that 's nice |
| 8 | has resigned her position as Editor 's Assistant ( Thank you for all your hard work ) and we are delighted that is helping temporarily . |
| 9 | Cumbria have a wide ranging programme including the Pilkington Roadshow in October at Workington , Egremont , Kendal , Keswick and Kirkby Lonsdale whilst David Pears is helping out at Workington on September 2nd and Wade Dooley at Kendal on September 15th . |
| 10 | Now the idea is catching on in Britain , so Lydia Ascroft says have a bash at massage and look forward to a sexier , slinkier you for the long , hot summer ! |
| 11 | It is a fact that Windows is catching on , probably because a graphical environment , although slower , at the moment , than a DOS character based environment , can be a very comfortable way to work , intuitive even . |
| 12 | In the experience of the author , the idea of the scheme is catching on very widely , and the theories running through it are rubbing off on traditional conveyancing practice in the commercial area . |
| 13 | A plant that may only flower once in a hundred years but grows at up to seven inches a day is catching on with gardeners . |
| 14 | Yamaha staff will be making a return visit to the region to discover how the Japanese style of music teaching is catching on in the North-East . |
| 15 | ‘ Must be getting too old for this globe-trotting lark , or else my mis-spent youth is catching up on me . |
| 16 | Jordan is catching up with the Western world . |
| 17 | ‘ It is catching up with our recession , ’ Taylor says . |
| 18 | Time is catching up with the baldly-going heroes . |
| 19 | My bachelor 's life is catching up on me . ’ |
| 20 | THEY are playing the blues down at Boosey & Hawkes , the international music publishers and instrument makers , because the recession is catching up with them . |
| 21 | But the more independent cat is catching up because so many people are desperate to have pets even though they are out at work all day . |
| 22 | The company is catching up with IBM UK , Bennett said , pointing to the respective performances of each . |
| 23 | And erm this one is slowly closing on that one , this one is catching up on this one at quite a rate of knots . |
| 24 | Even in the realms of technical and long document publishing the Macintosh is catching up with PC-based systems ; Interleaf Publisher usually needs a PC/RT or a Sun workstation yet it runs just fine on a Macintosh II . |
| 25 | From the blurred picture you can see the vital point when the clubhead is catching up with the hands . |
| 26 | ‘ I will do as you ask for now — jet lag is catching up with me — but I warn you not to try to disappear ; your every move will be known to me almost before you make it . ’ |
| 27 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman is catching up . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , though creative financing has mostly been stamped on , some councils ' past ingenuity is catching up with them . |
| 29 | The ghost of christmas future is catching up with Scrooge , and the news is grave . |
| 30 | Council spokesman Mike Clark admitted : ‘ Time is catching up on us . ’ |