Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [is] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without the pounds , boats in passage might have to wait while the locks above filled with water , before the lock through which it is passing can fill . |
| 2 | Was he able to discuss with President Yeltsin the problems of the old Soviet bureaucracy in Russia and the way in which it is inhibiting the ability of the people of Russia to receive the aid that they deserve ? |
| 3 | Taking further tentative steps into the Unix arena , Software AG GmbH , Darmstadt , Germany , last week announced it will support IBM 's RS/6000 with its fourth generation development language Natural , and Adabas , its relational database management system , which it is targeting at on-line transaction processing solutions . |
| 4 | One result of Barclays 's policy is the number of high-technology firms to which it is lending money under what it calls its business start loan scheme . |
| 5 | Then in a few weeks ' time it will have been outstripped by the very events which it is shaping . |
| 6 | Britain 's BT has its own global offerings , Syncordia and Cyclone , into which it is sinking some $100m . |
| 7 | If they do not , they must leave the system in which it is taking place . |
| 8 | Santa Clara , California-based Kubota Pacific Inc , the US subsidiary of Japan 's Kubota Computer Corp , has delayed the release of its plug-in graphics subsystem for the MIPS Computer Systems Inc R3000 RISC-based Titan 1.0 it sells , and the DEC Alpha-based Titan 2.0 machine which it is readying . |
| 9 | In the first place , the nationality of the company vis-à-vis the country in which it is providing services is not the factor which triggers the application of Community law . |
| 10 | However , subject to agreement by the voluntary providing bodies , it would seem logical to include them in NAB 's general appraisal of all courses of advanced further education which it is undertaking both to secure a degree of rationalization and also some reduction in unit costs . |
| 11 | This should make the model start to move in the direction which it is pointing or stop the rotation . |
| 12 | There is no record of its occupying caves at any time , but it must always be remembered that a woodland species in cave country could drop its pellets from the tree in which it is roosting to fall into or near cave openings , so that even without entering a cave the pellets of such a predator could accumulate inside the cave ( see p. 96 ) . |
| 13 | NEC in Japan has adopted the corporate slogan ‘ C & C ’ — computers and communications — to indicate the basis on which it is setting out to compete across the world with IBM and many others . |
| 14 | For there is not much time left to pull the economy out of the slump into which it is hurtling and further delay will be fatal . |
| 15 | In 1991-92 , the TDC had a budget allocation of £51 million , which it is using to great effect . |
| 16 | There is , however , one famous case in which it is beginning to look as if the molecular estimate is better than one based on fossils . |
| 17 | William Troy in the Nation was similarly unable to find the right words to explain the greatness of It Happened One Night and he suggested that ‘ a good photoplay , like a good book or a good piece of music , remains always something of a miracle ’ and that ‘ beyond a certain point the mind is forced to bow down before its own inability to unravel and put together again all the parts of the shining and imponderable whole with which it is dealing ’ . |
| 18 | The latter argued , as seen above , that a given ‘ cause ’ may resuIt in a variety of outcomes , depending on the circumstances in which it is operating . |
| 19 | Fashion usually operates within a system of emulation and differentiation in knowledge , such that it uses the dynamic force of object change as a means of reinforcing the stability of the social system within which it is operating ( Miller 1985 : 184–96 ; Simmel 1957 ) . |
| 20 | In Hilton it represents stages in the journey to God when the soul is no longer engaged with worldly things and as it were asleep to sin ( 24.90r. – 235 ) but is not yet fully illuminated by the knowledge of Christ : The experience of the dark can be either painful or restful : painful in so far as the soul is still troubled by the pressures of the worldly attractions from which it is hiding ; or restful in so far as the soul is waiting untroubled in its longing for Christ . |
| 21 | What we have as premiss for the dependent conditional that if it were raining the balcony would be wet is roughly this : in that possible world most like our own in which it is raining , the balcony is wet . |
| 22 | ‘ My job is to effect the disentanglement , with the University having a clear view of how successful the press is , and the extent to which it is calling on or contributing to University funds , ’ says David Martin . |
| 23 | Although this effort has been piecemeal and has occurred in widely differing contexts , the direction in which it is moving can be identified . |
| 24 | They act partly as stabilisers , like gyroscopes , and partly as sense organs presumably telling the fly of the attitude of its body in the air and the direction in which it is moving . |
| 25 | The shape of the sound wave — its acoustic signature — will be characteristic of the original disturbance and the media through which it is moving . |
| 26 | Cut the rest of the bottle to such a height that it fits under the water in the tank in which it is going . |
| 27 | The horse could have two or four shoes depending on the amount of work which it is going to do . |
| 28 | It is the relationship between a vehicle and the medium through which it is travelling that creates drag . |
| 29 | ( iii ) Pupils should consider not only the extent to which English has changed since Shakespeare 's day but also some of the ways in which it is changing now . |
| 30 | Sixteen-month-old Natick , Massachusetts-based start-up , Atria Software Inc , will this week introduce ClearCase , which it is touting as the industry 's most advanced software configuration management system for organising pieces of large-scale CASE development projects . |