Example sentences of "the [noun sg] is [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hospice is seeking more collectors than usual to give an hour or two of their time on those days to help raise a record amount . |
| 2 | THE hospice is celebrating this week after winning a £10,000 grant from a London-based charitable trust to help fund structural alterations at its new home , Harewood House . |
| 3 | In this case the programmer is forgoing some of the precision of single-length fixed-point arithmetic in exchange for an increased range of values . |
| 4 | The Mail 's big rival , the Express is doing much the same . |
| 5 | The difficulty is finding any necessary connection between two cases . |
| 6 | However , since the wave is providing all the power for the turn you do not need much power from the rig . |
| 7 | This year 's battle of the budget is generating more anguish than any for years , John Major 's cabinet now realize what a parliamentary mess December might turn into with week-long debates on both the Queen 's speech and the budget to pack in , and worse to come in the spring , a budget combining taxes with public spending seemed a good idea at the time Norman Lamont announced it , but with November the thirtieth just a month away the political down-side is appearing , of course with a fifty billion pound deficit in the Government 's accounts this years spending round would have been hard pounding anyhow , but the usual noisy haggle over the available cash among departments is now amplified by posses of Tory backbenchers trying to head off this or that tax increase , and there 's an incentive to keep that up right through the finance bill after Christmas , since most new taxes would not come in until April . |
| 8 | ‘ The college is getting enough unwelcome publicity already , without charging one of the fellows with burglary . |
| 9 | Even the engraving and writing on the top on , on , on the top of the viewfinder here is nicely lit , you can see that it 's er er , the light is catching all the various edges of the engraving on the top . |
| 10 | In addition , the department is assisting several Group companies who are aiming to secure nationally recognised vocational qualifications to illustrate the competency of Wood Group employees to our clients . |
| 11 | The Department is meeting all the commitments that we made in the citizens charter White Paper . |
| 12 | The club is planning more fund raising events later in the year in order to reach their target . |
| 13 | In the beginnings of this second stanza , the poet is describing all the wonderful things the sun can do but then goes on to say that all these great wonders are completely forgotten when the sun can not even rejuvenate a man whose body is still warm and almost living . |
| 14 | Now the princess is claiming much of that help came from the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh . |
| 15 | Unless the expert is determining all disputes under a contract ( see 6.9 ) , it is vital to define the issue clearly to avoid disputes about the interpretation of the words . |
| 16 | is talking about a specific period , at the moment I hope you realize that the committee is paying all the admin costs in the hope that we are getting the money from . |
| 17 | For its input resistance to equal the load resistance R L while the attenuation is Combining these last two equations shows that the values of R 1 and R 2 needed for the circuit to perform as required are |
| 18 | When this behaviour is seen for the first time , the owners may become seriously concerned , imagining that the cat is having some kind of fit or seizure . |
| 19 | If if people wan na know all you the benefit is saving half saving energy . |
| 20 | Apart from RTE 's TV ad revenue , boosted by the huge cost increases , no other medium in the South is enjoying such buoyancy . |
| 21 | If the child is eating any food or drinks containing additives , then these should be avoided as well . |
| 22 | That 's why er many authors insist on that aspect of child sex abuse , that erm apparent consent or even y'know when it seems that the child is expressing some curiosity about that these activities , nevertheless it 's abusive . |
| 23 | The 1989 Children Act replaces previous grounds for intervention by asking whether the child is receiving that care which ‘ it would be reasonable to expect a parent to give to him ’ ( S. 31(2) ( b ) ) . |
| 24 | Most parents can identify the first phase of interaction with their child , that is they can see what the child is doing that is irritating and they see how they react , but rarely do they then follow through the interaction to see what happens at the end . |
| 25 | But nevertheless , quietly , the community is getting more and more involved and having a bigger say at that level . |
| 26 | I 've got a feeling that the Author is waiting all the time in that house in the woods for His own character to turn up . ’ |
| 27 | The standard conditions provide that if the seller is buying another property in a related transaction , he or she may use all or part of the deposit as a deposit in that transaction , to be held in that transaction as stakeholder . |
| 28 | In an average-sized bookshop 30% of the product is changing each year . |
| 29 | By beginning with the ‘ duty to be publicly accountable ’ the GASB is allowing that financial reporting can be defined in part without explicitly referring to users ' needs . |
| 30 | The team is losing all its matches , Simon Singh is away with flu and Pete Gillett , the goalie , is ill as well . |