Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [v-ing] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Waddington 's season in paradise could be disturbed : there is an election expected in February and tourist revenue is falling as the island becomes too expensive for all but the rich . |
| 2 | the defence industry is suffering because no one knows what the governmentwants to spend |
| 3 | Neither is there much evidence that the share of the small firm sector is falling as the Japanese economy becomes more mature : over the 1970s the share actually increased from 51 per cent to 58 per cent . |
| 4 | The Government 's dilemma is that sterling is falling because the financial markets no longer have faith in government policy towards the pound . |
| 5 | This means that the proportion of younger people within the population is decreasing while the proportion of older people is increasing . |
| 6 | ‘ The mountain has been one of the highest tackled by Scottish Nuclear so far , but the day is approaching when the blue flag with the diamond logo will flutter from the summit . ’ |
| 7 | WHEN a court is determining whether a natural mother is unreasonable in withholding consent to her child 's adoption , for the purposes of section 16 of the Adoption Act 1976 , the court must judge the mother 's reasonableness objectively , but must not simply substitute its own views for that of the mother . |
| 8 | Where a court is considering whether a provision does or does not cover X the rule will not admit the parliamentary history of the provision to demonstrate that at no stage in the parliamentary proceedings was there any suggestion that the provision covered X. It remains to be seen how long judges in the United Kingdom will be able to require negative evidence from parliamentary material to establish that an admissible statement is an expression of parliamentary intention , but exclude such evidence as an aid to construction . |
| 9 | The strain energy in a stretched material is very like the potential energy which is in a raised weight , except , of course , that the stress is changing as the material is strained whereas the weight of a weight is constant as it is raised to any normal height . |
| 10 | The CAB is asking if the door is as wide open as it could be . |
| 11 | The sickness peaks when the foetus is going though a rapid stage of development of limbs and organs , making it highly sensitive to toxins . |
| 12 | Furthermore , where labour turnover is frequent , the individuals who act as leaders or subordinates are constantly changing ; such change is unsettling because the leadership style will have to be altered to suit the new situation , each time a personnel change occurs . |
| 13 | The Park is objecting because the land , which is within the Malham Arncliffe SSSI , is unimproved pasture with herb-rich flushes , including birds-eye primrose , devils-bit scabious and Black bog-rush . |
| 14 | Because the new financial year is starting when the estimates are first submitted to the House , and final approval is ( then ) some months off , statutory authority for issues out of the Consolidated Fund to meet expenditure during this period is provided by a system of lump-sum votes on account . |
| 15 | Pumping to keep reclaimed land dry has lowered water tables in some areas and the land is sinking as the soil compresses . |