Example sentences of "is [adv] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unisys Corp is slowly settling on Staffware as its workflow automation software , Unisys Information Systems having pledged to make it their only workflow offering , renamed their Staffware-derived OFIS Procedures product back to the generic labelling Staffware and a co-marketing agreement with the Staffware company : Staffware has also nosed out the Dublin-created Workhorse workflow software at Imix , Arix 's imaging arm , in Imix' Supervision integrated imaging and workflow system . |
| 2 | And erm this one is slowly closing on that one , this one is catching up on this one at quite a rate of knots . |
| 3 | Perhaps more generally useful is right clicking on the normal text entry area — this brings up the Modify Style dialog box — or in the border around the page when you are in the default Layout Mode — which brings up the Modify Page Layout dialog box . |
| 4 | The narrator is basically reflecting on what happened to him during childhood , adolescence and into adulthood . |
| 5 | The communicator who has not interacted with the material and is merely passing on what he or she has read or been told functions as a tertiary source . |
| 6 | Just imagine the abuse with which they would be showered by people who would tell them : ‘ Since it is easily possible for the economy to grow at 4 , 5 , 6 per cent or any other figure you like , the public are being cheated of the growth of public expenditure which they have a right to enjoy by this niggardly Government which is only counting on being able safely to increase public expenditure at a rate of 2 to 2and1/2 ; per cent . ’ |
| 7 | The indication is serious because , with leaves not able to work properly , the carbohydrate energy food supply is not being elaborated and the entire plant is only firing on one cylinder . |
| 8 | I suspect any successful teaching is only improving on a natural bent . |
| 9 | Fujitsu attributed its loss to the sluggish global economy , but the company has no hit products in the computer market now that mainframes have gone ex-growth , it is only embarking on building a mid-range Unix business in Japan , in part with machines made by its ICL Plc affiliate and by Sun Microsystems Inc , and its personal computer business labours in the shadow of that of NEC Corp . |
| 10 | Fujitsu attributed its loss to the sluggish global economy , but the company has no hit products in the computer market now that mainframes have gone ex-growth , it is only embarking on building a mid-range Unix business in Japan , in part with machines made by its ICL Plc affiliate and by Sun Microsystems Inc , and its personal computer business labours in the shadow of that of NEC Corp . |
| 11 | TopLog says it is only waiting on Univel to get its stuff out of the door and was originally set to go this month . |
| 12 | The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities has declared itself a potential purchaser but is apparently negotiating on the asking price which is said to be $2 million . |
| 13 | A church that is dedicated to a gentle , caring man who cared about the poor , instead of helping the man who needs help and who is literally sitting on the doorstep , is showing tourists paintings , especially commissioned to educate the illiterate about God , is not even showing them to the illiterate . |
| 14 | The pink of this species is generally verging on pale purple , and extends from the head in a wedge which tails off to the lower part of the back of the body . |
| 15 | The reader is thus relying on Friedlander 's eye . |
| 16 | If the press is not reviewing other media , it is normally reporting on current events . |
| 17 | So , that cloud will move out of the way but yet another lump of thick cloud is just appearing on the left of the screen to pose more problems for tomorrow . |
| 18 | The powerful aggregates industry is already leaning on him hard to prevent him from doing so . |
| 19 | The powerful aggregates industry is already leaning on him hard to prevent him from doing so . |
| 20 | Gaston and Mound may have to wait before the 750,000 insects can be handled , but IOPI is already building on the expertise of ILDIS , TROPICOS and the Australian Plant Census to create a system for the world 's 250,000 vascular plants . |
| 21 | The confessions add considerably to de Benedetti 's embarrassments , because he is already relying on the labyrinthine Italian judicial system of appeals , and the country 's statute of limitations to avoid the possibility of a jail sentence over his - fairly tenuous — involvement in the Banco Ambrosiano collapse . |
| 22 | The material appears to be non-toxic as algae is already growing on it . |
| 23 | Other mitigating measures could involve the encouragement of private concerns to develop their own plantations , as is already occurring on a small scale , not only in the rainforest regions but also in savanna regions where Eucalyptus is being successfully cultivated to provide fuelwood and poles . |
| 24 | First of all , the person concerned is already thinking about the problem and how to overcome it , so the subconscious mind is already working on the situation , whether one is aware of it or not . |
| 25 | Oracle Corp says it is already working on VMS and OSF/1 ports of its relational database management system technology for DEC 's Alpha RISC and says it 'll be showing them off at DECWorld in Boston at the end of this month . |
| 26 | The company is already working on MS-DOS 7 , tentatively planned for launch in the middle of 1994 . |
| 27 | The new company is already working on its first major contract , worth £20 million , to rebuild the country 's naval base . |
| 28 | And English Heritage , which is already working on Blackfriars Friary in the city centre , has refused to step in . |
| 29 | Now imagine that it is processor-independent and is already running on 80386 and 80486 , and Transputers , with the 68000 family , ARM RISC and MIPS R3000 processors a few months away . |
| 30 | Now imagine that it is processor-independent and is already running on 80386 and 80486 , and Transputers , with the 68000 family , ARM RISC and MIPS R3000 processors a few months away . |