Example sentences of "it is [adv] [v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is fast becoming a business where , to participate , you need a glossary . |
| 2 | Now we have the first royal re-marriage and it is barely raising a ripple . |
| 3 | I think the nearest thing to it is probably towing a caravan er a pyramid . |
| 4 | The School is in the process of widening its range of options with an MSc/Diploma in Marketing ; it is also pursuing a proposal to introduce a modular MBA , in the first instance in Public Sector Management , but others are expected to follow . |
| 5 | It is also appointing a coordinator to promote research on electro-active polymers , and plans to run further workshops later this year . |
| 6 | Failure to clear it can only add to the guilt because it is also robbing a relationship the transparency that it lives on . |
| 7 | It is also seeking an expansion of pinewoods in the core areas of Deeside , Strathspey and the River Beauly catchment . |
| 8 | It is also developing a respite care service . |
| 9 | It is also planning a £187million cash call on shareholders early next year , unless a bid for the company emerges in the meantime , though that now looks unlikely . |
| 10 | Simon complains of ‘ the unsuitable blue chosen by Mr Serota ’ for the Tate 's walls and adds : ‘ If there is some deep strategy for this marginalisation of the British collection it is certainly making an impact , for there are fewer pictures on view than ever before . ’ |
| 11 | It is currently building a bridge between BusinessObjects and the Oracle CASE dictionary , with others planned . |
| 12 | It is currently building a bridge between BusinessObjects and the Oracle CASE dictionary , with others planned . |
| 13 | It is currently supporting a retrospective of Bonington at the Yale Center for British Art , a show of Matisse currently at the Palazzo Reale , Milan , and ‘ Picasso and Things : The Still Lifes of Picasso ’ , a major touring exhibition , at Cleveland until 3 May . |
| 14 | It is currently holding a gilt auction of around £3 billion on the last Wednesday of every month . |
| 15 | It is currently hosting an exhibition of African women artists black and white as Joe points out . |
| 16 | It is still using a line that provides voice telephony , so standards set for the voice line will apply . |
| 17 | And while Syncordia has won around $100m of business in less than two years , it is still losing a pile of money . |
| 18 | A machine may well perform these tasks for him for some considerable period of time , but it has come to be accepted that once the brain can be shown to be dead , the machine is not keeping the patient ‘ alive ’ in any accepted sense of the word ; it is merely ventilating a corpse . |
| 19 | With 120 stores throughout Scotland and the North of England , it is now considering a summer stock-market flotation to help with further expansion into England . |
| 20 | Cray Research Inc , Eagan , Minnesota says that it is now offering a workstation version of its UniChem molecular modelling program written for its supercomputers : the new version is available on Silicon Graphics Inc workstations and a version for other Unix workstations will be offered later this year ; prices start at $45,000 , compared with $130,000 on a supercomputer . |
| 21 | The church , however , seems to be out of step for , having opposed change for so long by supporting the status quo , it is now demonstrating an element of true radicalism since a minority of its clergy wish to take change beyond capitalism towards socialism . |
| 22 | It is now proposing a $25 million loan to Cameroon under its new Global Environment Facility ( GEF ) , to ‘ protect areas of tropical forest , ’ though this will be coupled with a $30 million forestry loan for ‘ sustainable management ’ of rainforests — a concept so far unproven in the tropics . |
| 23 | Not all people who decide to work from home will be lucky enough to have a ready-made office space and they will need to make changes in their accommodation , even if it is only finding a place to keep the computer and the phone . |