Example sentences of "is [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where efforts have been made , as in parts of the south of Italy , evidence is accumulating that , at least in the specific areas concerned , a production cooperative approach can have a profound impact on local employment and economic development . |
| 2 | Evidence is accumulating that probably less benefit is achieved by juggling with proportions of short- and intermediate-acting insulin than was previously thought ( Roland , 1984 ) . |
| 3 | Worse , Labour is accumulating fresh odium from having 40 per cent of the votes in its electoral college cast by union barons , after varying unsatisfactory forms of consultation . |
| 4 | Although evidence is accumulating that in a number of birds females prefer long-tailed mates , the role of natural selection in tail elaboration has been largely ignored . |
| 5 | Evidence is accumulating that an efficient service infrastructure increases the attractiveness of a location for potential investors ( Marshall , 1985 ; Browne , 1983 ) . |
| 6 | However , evidence is accumulating that , as in cervical cancer , human papillomavirus may have a causal association with anal cancer . |
| 7 | In consequence , the trust fund is accumulating surpluses . |
| 8 | In man and other species , there is accumulating evidence that gastrin stimulates acid secretion by releasing histamine . |
| 9 | Evidence is accumulating to show that gut epithelial cells interact closely with adjacent mononuclear cells . |
| 10 | There is accumulating evidence that the action of IGF-I in target tissues is modulated by insulin like growth factor binding proteins ( IGFBP ) but there is a lack of published data in children with Crohn 's disease . |
| 11 | Finally , evidence is accumulating that a person 's emotional environment influences his or her likelihood of suffering an acute psychotic episode if he or she already has a history of schizophrenic disorder . |
| 12 | In depression , less is known about biological vulnerability , but knowledge is accumulating about other explanations ( see chapters 4 and 5 ) . |
| 13 | Evidence is accumulating that the cap , in combination with the transfer of funds to the Research Councils , has had a serious effect on the intellectual life of the University , and its removal is earnestly awaited . |
| 14 | Er it 's not due to my expertise at all , it 's just mainly due to the fact we do n't go to shows these days we 've always in the good old days when we used to go to shows we spent probably a hundred and thirty to two hundred pounds a year so we never had very much money as we do n't go to these shows and spend this money it is it is a it is accumulating each year . |
| 15 | In addition TML is devoting 8.8% of its total wage bill to training and is cooperating in a major programme with the national and regional governments which has provided 2,000 to 4,000 people with new jobs or skills . |
| 16 | Their new king , Philip IV , is devoting all his energies and resources to building up alliances in Europe . |
| 17 | The Musée Barbier-Mueller is devoting an exhibition to the art of the Solomon Islands , discovered by Alvaro de Mendana in 1568 and thought to house King Solomon 's Mines . |
| 18 | Bernard Jacobson , who is celebrating twenty-five years of activity , is devoting his programme for an entire calendar year to exhibitions of historic and modern British landscape painting . |
| 19 | Comprehension depends upon rapid work recognition , for if the reader is devoting time and attention to the individual words , then the relationships between words will not be appreciated and the integration of word meanings will not be calculated . |
| 20 | Now that Carol Phillips is no longer involved in the nitty gritty of running the company , she is devoting more of her time to the service area of Clinique . |
| 21 | With the other legal deposit libraries , NLS is participating in a preservation microfilming project funded in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation , which is devoting some $2.5m to this purpose in the UK . |
| 22 | A retired engineer who has collected information on card indexes over 30 years as a member of the World Ship Society is devoting his full time to implementing such a database . |
| 23 | The British Library is devoting a very considerable proportion of its resources during the remaining years of this century to the automated provision of information . |
| 24 | THE directors of a small Borders textile business , which has landed its largest order , from Japan , claim that the region 's local enterprise company is devoting too many of its resources to large firms . |
| 25 | English Hops is now busily developing the export trade and is helping growers to produce seedless varieties — which means waging war on the hapless and horny male hop . |
| 26 | Undoubtedly , the new availability of earlier texts of feminist interest is helping the explosion . |
| 27 | Beyond the slightest doubt the new technology is helping reshape politics here far more dramatically than pious talk of the ‘ socialist market economy ’ . |
| 28 | I would say rather that , both despite and because of the obvious and considerable differences , post/modernism is helping us to understand again what the early modern period already knew but in a quite different form : identity is essentially informed by what it is not . |
| 29 | And to the many other ways in which CARE is helping the world 's poorest people to find a way out of poverty and ill-health . |
| 30 | ORT is one example of the health care programmes which CARE is helping to introduce in countries as far apart as India and Peru . |