Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [is] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have also enclosed some correspondence which Mr Popham has received or is preparing to send on your behalf . |
| 2 | Axl sings like a yowling inflatable doll that has been wounded and is taking it personally . |
| 3 | The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has organised and is implementing a series of training programmes and retraining workshops for Namibia 's aspiring and practising communicators at senior , intermediate and entry levels of broadcasting and print journalism . |
| 4 | The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has organised and is implementing a series of training programmes and retraining workshops for Namibia 's aspiring and practising communicators at senior , intermediate and entry levels of broadcasting and print journalism . |
| 5 | At the As-Salih Negm Ad-din madrasa and mausoleum urgent action is needed to save the minaret , which has cracked and is sloping one way , while the supporting timber lintel slopes the other . |
| 6 | ( b ) The child The child is entitled to respondent status in : ( i ) applications under Parts IV and V of the Act ( proceedings which relate to care , supervision , contact , child assessment , emergency protection and recovery orders ) ; ( ii ) applications under Part III of the Act ( secure accommodation orders and approval to the emigration of children in care ) ; ( iii ) any application for a residence order under s8 in relation to a child in care ; ( iv ) any family proceedings in which the court has made a direction for investigation under s37(1) ( see Chapter 3 , 1(b) ) and has either made or is considering whether to make an interim care order . |
| 7 | The only exceptions are cases in which the court : ( a ) is considering whether to make a residence order in respect of a child in care ( s41(6) ( e ) ) ; or ( b ) has given a direction for investigation under s37 and has made or is considering whether to make an interim care order ( s41(6) ( b ) ) . |
| 8 | The dubious research is that in which it is clear that the author has been disappointed not to have certain hypotheses upheld and is trying to talk ( or rather write ) his way round the evidence . |
| 9 | Environmental audits are defined as determining what the organisation has done and is doing in relation to the environment . |
| 10 | If there has to be a last minute addition to the contract after the document has been prepared and is awaiting exchange , it could be written into the draft contract before exchange , or some reference to it could be added to the contract so long as all that was done with the authority of the parties who signed it . |
| 11 | His wife was also shot and is recovering in hospital . |
| 12 | PC Sandy Kelly , 32 , was also shot and is recovering under armed guard in hospital . |
| 13 | A gold-framed certificate I have n't seen before is hanging crooked above the TV . |
| 14 | Perhaps the biggest thing he has done though is regarding the image of the club . |
| 15 | The second point is on correspondence , I 'm absolutely certain that when a member of public writes in to any department , not necessarily highway , he expects and needs an immediate response , now I know you have , you have started the acknowledgement of our system , but I think it 's , it does n't go far enough , an acknowledgement card that simply says the thing is received and is receiving attention , needs to then indicate the individual to whom that matter has been passed for attention and that leads me to the third point and I think the general complaint on the public is that local government is seen as faceless people and I think we have to get in our mind to name people within our department , there 's not one mention about it in our promise , I think we need , unless I 've not read it , but I think , I think we , yes , but I think we need to mention people by name , senior people within the department who will respond to particular things and certainly where public comes into contact within the offices we must get around to wearing a name badge who says who that person is , people want to relate to a person and I think we can do that if we try . |
| 16 | A Design Change state indicating that a specific proposal to modify one or more modules has been registered and is awaiting agreement . |
| 17 | DON CASHMORE 'S full-size Hawker Cygnet replica G-Camm , has been completed and is awaiting suitable weather in order that its maiden flight , in the hands of John Lewis , can take place . |
| 18 | A team has been formed and is playing regularly . |
| 19 | PA has developed and is installing a real-time expert system to monitor the operation of BP Chemicals ' butadiene plant at Grangemouth in Scotland , to provide operators with advice and priorities for corrective action . |
| 20 | He was subsequently dismissed and is suing ABS for unfair dismissal . |
| 21 | If the latter , this should be done in late summer or early autumn , when the main summer growth has flowered and is beginning to wither , but new shoots are just appearing at the base of the plant . |
| 22 | Hiarc has apparently agreed and is arranging a temporary licence until it changes the name , a move Sparc International would probably insist on since Hiarc wants to move the software to non-Sparc platforms . |
| 23 | The Department of Employment has now agreed and is processing her application . |
| 24 | The Education Bill has been drafted and is making its controversial progress through Parliament . |
| 25 | Once your account has been opened and is running satisfactorily , requests for further loans will be considered on the existing account with the minimum of formality . |
| 26 | Once your account has been opened and is running satisfactorily , requests for further loans will be considered on the existing account with the minimum of formality . |
| 27 | Thus , amongst policemen and women working in ‘ hard ’ areas of high tension , policing in Easton is abused as family disputes and barking dogs , a caricature which many respondents hold and is even reproduced by constables at Easton : ‘ One minute you could be called out , someone 's budgie has escaped and is flying around the living-room . |
| 28 | Mrs Jones , 26 , said : ‘ Ifan Tegeryn weighed 7lb 15oz when he was born and is coming along fine . |
| 29 | Clive Gordon runs The Environment and Development Company , chairs HCIMA 's working group on an environment British Standard ( BS5750 ) now being piloted and is preparing a guide on how to write an environmental policy ( available through HCIMA later this year ) . |
| 30 | In the United States , Canada and the United Kingdom , the worst of the recession is over ; in West Germany and Japan , growth has slowed and is slowing . |