Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] it is [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Royal watcher Margaret Holder said : ‘ It looks like it is going to be an unhappy time for the Queen and everyone else . |
| 2 | But David Dein , the Arsenal vice-chairman martyred for his part in the deal , insists that it is working ‘ eminently satisfactorily ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ( Sun says that it is getting 50MHz parts now . ) |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The council says that it is speaking up for smokers . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The department says that it is seeking advice from the Committee on safety of Medicines on B17 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The company says that it is making do with a single Intel Corp 80486 processor to drive the device currently . |
| 14 | It was awfully sporting of IBM Corp to set up consultancy , systems integration and facilities management ventures in an attempt to put to profitable use the surplus skills of so many of its employees , and only curmudgeons asked if IBMers were actually the right people for the job : sad to say , the curmudgeons were right , and according to Computerworld , the head of the new IBM Consulting Group in White Plains , New York , Robert Howe , says that it is having to hire people from the likes of Andersen Consulting and Coopers & Lybrand , because as he told the paper , ‘ we 've tried IBMers , but frankly we 've had to send some home — some IBM people did n't get the notion of the service business — they did n't understand that we did n't want administrators and middle managers ’ . |
| 15 | Although SynOptics already participates in Management Information Base testing for interoperability with NetView/6000 , it says that it is planning to expand this to other management elements such as remote monitoring — RMON , and SNMP Version II agents . |
| 16 | NEC says that it is planning to create artificial neural network systems to analyse exchange rates and interest rate fluctuations as well . |
| 17 | The company is understood to have abandoned development of the Repository altogether , and the switch of strategy leaves the whole AD/Cycle concept in complete disarray , though the company says that it is reaffirming support for the AD/Cycle tools available : to do anything else would leave the company open to all manner of retaliation from AD/Cycle International Alliance Members . |
| 18 | Symbolics Inc , Concord , Massachusetts artificial intelligence pioneer warns that it is running out of cash and needs additional financing quickly : options include selling the company , obtaining additional financing and filing for bankruptcy protection . |
| 19 | Newbridge confirms that it is preparing a range of such products , but will not confirm exactly what these are . |
| 20 | OfficePower for Unix currently only supports ICL 's long time relational database partner , Ingres , though there are plans to bring the Oracle Corp offering into play , and the company confirms that it is talking to other companies too . |
| 21 | We are given a picture of death , the death of Pip 's real chance for ever finding contentment , and he sees that it is going to be a long , hard struggle back to finding happiness in life , it is a test of Pip 's strength of character . |
| 22 | Banking and dealing room software house Kapiti Ltd reckons that it is reaping the rewards of investment in new product development , and the fact that it has spread itself over a wide geographical area . |
| 23 | A serious problem already exists and it is becoming even greater . |
| 24 | In virtue of expressing the belief that it is raining the statement ‘ It is raining says or asserts that it is raining . |
| 25 | Merseytravel , which operates the boats , strongly denies that it is steering them towards closure . |
| 26 | Merseytravel , which operates the boats , strongly denies that it is steering them towards closure . |
| 27 | It denies that it is sliding out of its responsibility towards archaeological sites : ‘ Our archaeological activities will still continue and remain a vital part of our work ’ . |
| 28 | The United States feels that it is shouldering too heavy a defence burden in Europe , whilst Europe has increasingly become an economic rival of the United States ; Europeans resent their separate defence and economic dependence on the United States , but have been slow to recognize their de facto commitment to an unrealistic and arbitrary divide between economic and strategic policies . |
| 29 | It now feels like it is embracing me and other Black sisters . |
| 30 | Maynard , Massachusetts-based Digital Equipment Corp indicates that it is expecting to have conversations with friends at Hewlett-Packard Co in the next few weeks about its participation in the Common Open Software Environment . |