Example sentences of "it is [adv] [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is fast becoming a business where , to participate , you need a glossary . |
| 2 | Now we have the first royal re-marriage and it is barely raising a ripple . |
| 3 | I think the nearest thing to it is probably towing a caravan er a pyramid . |
| 4 | Nevertheless it is clearly playing a useful part in a prevention campaign ; indeed , the greater the number of elements in such a strategy the better . |
| 5 | The School is in the process of widening its range of options with an MSc/Diploma in Marketing ; it is also pursuing a proposal to introduce a modular MBA , in the first instance in Public Sector Management , but others are expected to follow . |
| 6 | It is also appointing a coordinator to promote research on electro-active polymers , and plans to run further workshops later this year . |
| 7 | Failure to clear it can only add to the guilt because it is also robbing a relationship the transparency that it lives on . |
| 8 | It is also seeking an expansion of pinewoods in the core areas of Deeside , Strathspey and the River Beauly catchment . |
| 9 | It is also developing a respite care service . |
| 10 | It is also taking a 49.9% stake in Swedish food company Bake Off for an undisclosed sum . |
| 11 | It is also considering a similar step for Sarawak , scene of heated confrontations with tribal people who claim that the logging is destroying their homeland . |
| 12 | It is also building a key contacts list covering those with a part to play in the process . |
| 13 | It is also becoming a more common practice for sellers to try to qualify their liability by reference to matters revealed in the disclosure letter . |
| 14 | It is also becoming a substantial force in team sports , with virtually all UK First Division soccer clubs using it . |
| 15 | Not only has ‘ Orpheus ’ proved the hit of the season ; it is also attracting a younger audience . |
| 16 | It is also launching a new series called Wisley Companions , the intention of which is to collect information from a variety of Wisley Handbooks and compact it into a smaller number of volumes . |
| 17 | It is also planning a £187million cash call on shareholders early next year , unless a bid for the company emerges in the meantime , though that now looks unlikely . |
| 18 | Morning coffee and afternoon tea are served here , together with light snacks , and it is already proving a popular meeting place for the ladies of St John 's Wood . |
| 19 | Simon complains of ‘ the unsuitable blue chosen by Mr Serota ’ for the Tate 's walls and adds : ‘ If there is some deep strategy for this marginalisation of the British collection it is certainly making an impact , for there are fewer pictures on view than ever before . ’ |
| 20 | It is currently building a bridge between BusinessObjects and the Oracle CASE dictionary , with others planned . |
| 21 | It is currently building a bridge between BusinessObjects and the Oracle CASE dictionary , with others planned . |
| 22 | It is currently supporting a retrospective of Bonington at the Yale Center for British Art , a show of Matisse currently at the Palazzo Reale , Milan , and ‘ Picasso and Things : The Still Lifes of Picasso ’ , a major touring exhibition , at Cleveland until 3 May . |
| 23 | It is currently holding a gilt auction of around £3 billion on the last Wednesday of every month . |
| 24 | It is currently hosting an exhibition of African women artists black and white as Joe points out . |
| 25 | Yet it is currently playing a vital role in contemporary geometry , as in the work on self-similar fractals by Benoit Mandelbrot , at IBM 's research centre at Yorktown Heights in New York ( Figure 3a ) . |
| 26 | It is still using a line that provides voice telephony , so standards set for the voice line will apply . |
| 27 | And while Syncordia has won around $100m of business in less than two years , it is still losing a pile of money . |
| 28 | A machine may well perform these tasks for him for some considerable period of time , but it has come to be accepted that once the brain can be shown to be dead , the machine is not keeping the patient ‘ alive ’ in any accepted sense of the word ; it is merely ventilating a corpse . |
| 29 | Er and it is actually doing a useful job . |
| 30 | I am delighted that it is now providing a three-day project at Sir Thomas Picton 's school in Haverfordwest , around its production of Don Pasquale . |