Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it is [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one knows where HIV started , but we do know that it is spreading fast and nearly every country in the world has people with HIV or AIDS . |
| 2 | Yet software house Microsoft recently caused quite a stir in computer circles by announcing that it is using real people , working for real companies , to test its software products . |
| 3 | Digital Equipment Corp also has a copy of the paper , and some of the Common Open Software Environment people think that DEC is now only a photo opportunity away from announcing that it is becoming a member too . |
| 4 | The phatic function : opening the channel or checking that it is working , either for social reasons ( ‘ Hello' , ‘ Lovely weather ’ , ‘ Do you come here often ? ’ ) , or for practical ones ( ‘ Can you hear me ? ’ , |
| 5 | Moreover , it would appear that the difference is that the latter sentence expresses my belief that I have the belief that it is raining , and says that I have the belief that it is raining , and does not express the belief that it is raining or say that it is raining . |
| 6 | Royal watcher Margaret Holder said : ‘ It looks like it is going to be an unhappy time for the Queen and everyone else . |
| 7 | So , for the best colours and such details as bright yellow stamens , the flower must be picked as it is coming into bloom . |
| 8 | Not only has Trifolium repens a guerrilla growth form but its guerrilla character is exaggerated when it is growing with grasses ; its branching then tends to be reduced and growth is concentrated in linear extension . |
| 9 | They will put the moment off for as long as possible or refuse to acknowledge that it is coming along and then protest that they were not told . |
| 10 | The sad truth of the matter is that Group 4 has such low levels of performance to live up to that already , despite its much publicised failures , the Home Secretary is able to claim that it is outperforming the public services it is replacing . |
| 11 | But David Dein , the Arsenal vice-chairman martyred for his part in the deal , insists that it is working ‘ eminently satisfactorily ’ . |
| 12 | This week ITV announced that it is dropping the God slot due to lack of interest . |
| 13 | The Kingfisher group , whose name was changed from Woolworths earlier this year , includes about 720 high street shops under the Woolworths name , electrical retailer Comet with 307 outlets , Britain 's leading DIY group , B&Q , and Superdrug , the high street chain which last week announced that it is buying Medicare from the Gateway supermarket chain 's new owners Isosceles . |
| 14 | Having last week announced that it is backing Ken Livingstone for the Labour leadership , it now says it supports the ‘ Sun Readers ' Party ’ . |
| 15 | Tarmac announced that it is closing down four plants and reducing production , which will lead to 300 job losses . |
| 16 | EURO Disney plunged 29p to £9.33p after it announced that it is closing one of its six hotels for the winter . |
| 17 | The development work is n't thought to be linked to Sun in any formal way , but the news comes just a week after Sun revealed that it is playing with a 64-bit Sparc , and outlined its intent to define the ground rules for such environments through a new release of Sparc International 's interface specification for 64-bit Sparc architectures ( UX No 380 ) . |
| 18 | Secondly , these falling yields mean that it is becoming cheaper for firms and individuals to borrow by issuing new claims like bonds and equities or going to building societies , by comparison with borrowing from banks . |
| 19 | Even in the prenatal period the fetus is communicating that it is growing in size ; and in the later months of pregnancy that it is capable of movement . |
| 20 | Prices have yet to be set , but the company says that it is looking at $3,000 to $5,000 for a development kit and around $100 per user for run-time use . |
| 21 | Prices have yet to be set , but the company says that it is looking at $3,000 to $5,000 for a development kit and around $100 per user for run-time use . |
| 22 | ( Sun says that it is getting 50MHz parts now . ) |
| 23 | Not surprisingly , given the number of new products it has on the go , the company says that it is ploughing some 12% of its turnover back into research and development . |
| 24 | In fact IBM says that it is pushing the MPTN technology as a standard as long ago as December 1991 when it submitted the underlying MPTN approach to the XNET workgroup of X/Open Co Ltd , which is still considering it . |
| 25 | The council says that it is speaking up for smokers . |
| 26 | Becker says that it is expecting too much of Third world bourgeoisies to think they can bring about societal transformations on a grand scale or act in the ‘ heroic ’ way of entrepreneurs a century ago ( Becker 1983 ) . |
| 27 | The company now says that it is producing some 20 million metres of VHS tape per month — enough to fill more than 100 000 cassettes . |
| 28 | The department says that it is seeking advice from the Committee on safety of Medicines on B17 . |
| 29 | Autodesk Inc , Sausalito , California has decided that IBM Corp 's Cadam Inc computer-aided design software base is ripe for plundering , and is developing two Cadam-emulation products , Aemulus and Aemulus(mf) , which are now in alpha test : the products , which offer a Cadam-like user interface and bi-directional compatibility with Cadam files , are also compatible with AutoCAD Release 12 ; Aemulus is an AutoCAD Development System application with a Cadam-like graphics interface and command set and enables customers to edit existing Cadam models or create new Cadam-compatible models on the desktop ; Aemulus(mf) is a mainframe-resident program that enables customers to quickly and completely convert Cadam two-dimensional Interactive Drawing files to DXF files or vice versa ; both are set for shipment in May 1993 but pricing has not yet been decided ; the company also says that it is expanding its product line beyond the drafting portion of the design spectrum it has traditionally occupied to cover the entire spectrum from conceptualisation to manufacturing , and that as a first step its three top-selling drafting and design packages , AutoCAD , Generic CADD and AutoSketch , have been brought together under one organisational umbrella , and are being precisely defined and clarified in terms of their relationship to each other ; development is under way to enable the three products to work together and share files across networks . |
| 30 | The company says that it is making do with a single Intel Corp 80486 processor to drive the device currently . |