Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [v-ing] [adv] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big digger is holding up all the traffic . |
| 2 | What makes it confusing is the moon is spinning round all the time . |
| 3 | The magazine is selling around 35,000 a week but lost almost £200,000 in its last financial year . |
| 4 | The commission says : ‘ Advice in total is taking too large a proportion of the effort , around three times as much as is spent on inspection . ’ |
| 5 | This decision is to be left to the governors of the school , but the Department of Education and Science is recommending as wide a definition as possible , to include legal guardians , foster parents and the head of a children 's home when the child is in care . |
| 6 | But change is creeping in all the same . |
| 7 | Striking the right balance is getting harder all the time as banking grows devilishly complicated , crossing borders and time-zones , spawning new products , using computers to bewitch and bewilder . |
| 8 | He added : ‘ Our production is going up all the time . |