Example sentences of "[noun] is [v-ing] [adj] in the " in BNC.

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1 Yeah , but I 'm finding this I 'm doing this patterns thing and it 's all about transformations and that , and I , and there 's so much gobbledegook with it that I 'm I 'm ge I 'm getting lost my mind is getting lost in the gobbledegook Cos I know what
2 Selection for resistance to mastitis and good fertility at the same time as selection for milk yield and quality is proving effective in the dairy cattle population of Norway .
3 Tony Booth , managing director of British Telecom International , said : ‘ Competition is becoming cut-throat in the transatlantic services .
4 The hotel swimmingpool is getting wet in the rain .
5 Shirley Robertson is lying second in the Europe Dinghies , Stuart Childerley is third in the Finns and Will Henderson is third in the Flying Dutchman .
6 Indeed , given the fact that there are only a couple of dozen companies quoted on the exchange , the opportunity for follow-on business for DEC is looking limited in the short term , despite its apparent enthusiasm to off-load a VAX 6000 .
7 When we first meet them , Dorothy is living alone in the schoolhouse and Agnes is in lodgings along the main road which leads eventually to the Midlands .
8 In Thailand a traditional form of entertainment is proving invaluable in the nationwide effort to educate country people about AIDS , which is increasingly at an alarming rate in all areas of the country .
9 As a result , supply supply is increasing right in the face of re falling demand , right demand falling off because prices have are high .
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