Example sentences of "is [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yamaha staff will be making a return visit to the region to discover how the Japanese style of music teaching is catching on in the North-East . |
| 2 | Even then it should not apply where all that the Purchaser does is to carry on in the ordinary course of the business . |
| 3 | This bloke is propped up in the corner of the cab , and blood all over the place . |
| 4 | But an enormous backlog of untaxed cases of wine is building up in the producers ' warehouses . |
| 5 | The undeniable fact is that chlorine is building up in the atmosphere much faster than it can be coped with . |
| 6 | There is always a danger of war when you have a face to face confrontation that is building up in the Gulf at the moment . |
| 7 | And do you know what , one of them is wading around in the middle of the loch , up to his waist in the water . ’ |
| 8 | The second CD is given over in the main to what I think of as Mark Goodier bands ( not a breath of criticism implicit in that , by the way ) . |
| 9 | We prefer to distribute these on a sessional basis , rather than all together in a book form which is given out in the first session , as individual handouts seem to focus attention on the specific issue under discussion . |
| 10 | It consists of a short phrase in the slow introduction to the opening movement , which in the Septet is given out in the major before being echoed in the minor , but which appears both times in the minor in the transcription . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , the kite that Lord Hanson has flown is bobbing around in the political and financial winds . |
| 12 | I believe tobacco-smoke is the most effectual , but to one not a smoker it would require to be a case of hiring another to the office of smoking away the midges — a work many would gladly undertake , for tobacco is looked on in the Highlands as a very great good , almost as essential as the whiskey . |
| 13 | The evolutionary sequence for the history of mankind which is sketched out in The German Ideology is patchy and in some respects inconsistent , but the main features emerge clearly . |
| 14 | Or else , because one is lifted up in the air , to be unsettled and therefore restless , anxious , tense and doubtful . |
| 15 | The agency is thrashing about in the grip of an angry Congress that is bent on uncovering mismanagement and conflicts-of-interest at the agency . |
| 16 | The teaching is carried on in the form of folklore and tribal legends . |
| 17 | At the least , the seller should agree to ensure that the business of the offeree group is carried on in the ordinary and usual course so as to maintain the same as a going concern ; and that nothing is voluntarily done or omitted which would result in a material inaccuracy in the warranties if they were repeated on , and as at , completion . |
| 18 | ( 2 ) At least one of the merging enterprises is carried on in the United Kingdom or by or under the control of a company incorporated in the United Kingdom . |
| 19 | After dilution , the determination of ammonia is carried out in the normal way . |
| 20 | Also , enforcement is carried out in the same way by the weights and measures authorities , sections 27–33 . |
| 21 | A thorough empirical evaluation of the research 's hypothesis is carried out in the context of total consumer expenditure and its various components . |
| 22 | In consumer electronics , toys , apparel , automobile parts and sports goods , a major part of global production is carried out in the assembly plants of TNCs . |
| 23 | The individual is caught up in the personalising/objectifying dialectic as in life , and because the communication is between participants , the normal interaction of a social context is also reflected . |
| 24 | The story centres on Giorgio , a successful eye-surgeon working in Paris and his alter egos : his much younger brother Piero , who is caught up in the obscure ‘ manoeuvres ’ going on in Sicily ( it will turn out that he has sabotaged an American helicopter and is on the run ) , and Charles , a 12-year-old boy who is at the centre of the whole story . |
| 25 | The tree is caught up in the constellations . |
| 26 | He is caught up in the communal excitement , without the prospect of release that performance gives . |
| 27 | So there is evidence that the immune system is caught up in the pathological process , but whether it 's truly an auto-immune disease is not so clear . |
| 28 | Subtle shades of beige from the Crown Expressions range have been ragged to cleverly break up the colour which is picked up in the marble fireplace , pale loose cotton covers and unbleached cotton curtains . |
| 29 | Similarly it seems unlikely that the reader will bother to construct a three-dimensional , photographic representation of ‘ the baby ’ which cries in the first sentence and which is picked up in the second sentence . |
| 30 | We now understand the day before another young boy af about nine saw a amn dressed exactly the same some distance away in the Sparcells estate so we can only assume that this man is lurking around in the area . |