Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] it is [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of those who will be first to move , Mrs Jean Cooke , a secretary in the Sales Department , said , ‘ I have seen the plans for new offices and it is going to be super . |
| 2 | The Phoenix Arts Centre in Leicester is trying to shake off its persistent image of being just too highbrow for words and it is striving to show the general public that they might actually enjoy some of the things that go on there . |
| 3 | ‘ In the States , most of the big races are over a mile or ten furlongs and it is becoming trickier by the season to be absolutely sure you have made the right decision . ’ |
| 4 | Frame Technology Corp , San Jose warns that it will likely report a first quarter loss on revenues 15% to 20% below analysts ' expectations of $20.5m ; it did $770,000 net or $0.07 per share on $13.3m a year ago and says the shortfall is from the Frame North America distribution organisation ‘ which has experienced lower than expected sell-through ; ’ business projections are on target for Europe and OEM units but it is restructuring the North American sales organisation , establishing a separate sales division to focus on direct corporate sales . |
| 5 | The Bulgarian government has decided to suspend production at the country 's biggest lead plant for several months because it is causing severe pollution to nearby agricultural land . |
| 6 | And though the industry is young , there are signs that it is moving tentatively towards the notion of performance league tables for venture capital fund managers . |
| 7 | The signs that it is doing so are around you in ways which were unimaginable before prices were ‘ liberalised ’ two years ago . |
| 8 | If the policy-making area is technical and complex , public officials have a decided advantage , even though the state may not have a total monopoly of technically relevant knowledge in policy areas where it is pursuing corporatist arrangements . |
| 9 | It 's a challenging objective and there is general recognition among the senior administrators that it is going to take a tremendous effort , one that is both concerted and coordinated , for Canada to qualify for the 1995 quarter-finals . |
| 10 | I say may be , because cask-conditioned beer is being reinstated so fast in so many pubs that it is becoming almost impossible to keep up with the total . |
| 11 | Sun Microsystems Inc will be building its next-generation workstations and servers out of a family of 64-bit multiprocessor chips that it is designing called UltraSparc , and the chips should take Sun machines close to the end of the decade . |
| 12 | The only bird that regularly directs missiles at other species is the Australian brush turkey , which kicks sand and stones at lizards when it is competing with them for food . |
| 13 | Trestles make it all so much easier and safer , and it is worth while having a second one so that everyone can relax for a few minutes if it is proving difficult to align both wings to get the main pins in place . |
| 14 | SCOTVEC considers the validation of courses and units to be a vital element in maintaining confidence in its new advanced awards and it is monitoring the process closely . |
| 15 | ‘ … but always there has been a hidden canker , which has grown with the years until it is stifling me . ’ |
| 16 | For the more depressed and lonely people who have few if any outside contacts , counselling can appear to deepen the very feelings that it is seeking to alleviate , especially in the early stages . |
| 17 | Allied dipped early on fears that it is planning a £200 million cash call and ended the day 2p down at 543p . |
| 18 | contribution , the havoc that it is causing in terms of non-collection rates and the administrative difficulties that it is causing in magistrates courts ? |
| 19 | In view of Leicester Energy Limited 's continued interest in the establishment of a combined heat and power scheme in Leicester , will the Minister give his wholehearted support and instruct his officials to give their wholehearted co-operation to Leicester Energy Limited in the tremendous efforts that it is making to promote that scheme ? |
| 20 | I must advise the Minister that that is not what the construction industry is saying to others about the problems that it is facing . |
| 21 | ‘ It is no longer enough merely to acknowledge the facts … and to hope that science will solve by itself the problems that it is creating . |
| 22 | And the Bank is pushing the options in such quantities that it is keeping their price lower than it should be . |
| 23 | A bank using this technique of funding must charge a higher spread on its own euro-credits than it is paying . |
| 24 | The form of father changes because it is occupying a different element . |
| 25 | Sun Alliance has given notice to National Home Loans that it is cancelling its payment protection scheme at the end of the month . |
| 26 | Trow ( 1974 , p. 6.3 ) has distinguished between elite and mass systems of higher education and argues that ‘ Countries that develop a system of elite higher education in modern times seem able to expand it without changing its character in fundamental ways until it is providing places for about 15% of the age grade . ’ |
| 27 | Undercover displays if it is raining . |
| 28 | But the feeble efforts by the Yugoslav army to shake off mounting charges that it is backing Serbian militias in the conflict in Bosnia ended abruptly with the sharp crackle of Serbian sniper fire which sent the entire delegation diving for cover . |
| 29 | In short answers unless it is crying out for a diagram do n't bother because you 'll spend five minutes drawing the diagram , labelling it , explaining what D P and D S means and it just wo n't work it definition , application , measurement problems , contention , |
| 30 | Finally , the variety of ways in which linguistic terms have been applied to literary narrative suggests that even in the most linguistically conscious theories of literature , the role of linguistics remains subservient : it can never supply literary analysis with prescriptive procedures when it is operating at this level of the literary text . |