Example sentences of "and it is [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Markham , LASMO has achieved two milestones in the British oil industry — the field is the first offshore development lying across the UK/Netherlands median line , and it is producing the first gas to be exported from the UK into the Continent . |
| 2 | And it is transforming Ivanisevic 's career . |
| 3 | Maddock reports that most firms are hostile to the idea of moving people between civil and military sectors : ‘ There already exists a large culture gap and it is getting even wider . ’ |
| 4 | Today it has been worse and it is getting worse now . |
| 5 | It 's very cold here and it is getting late . |
| 6 | Well , the range in companies in the UK today is about six months to five years , with an average at about three years , and it is getting longer . |
| 7 | The disparity between that and even the increased pension rates of £54 and £86 for a single person and married couple is enormous and it is getting worse every year . |
| 8 | He added : ‘ People from all over the country , people we have never heard of , have been good enough to sit down and write lengthy letters , to send flowers at great expense to a boy , just saying Tim Parry , Warrington , Cheshire , and it is getting to the house . |
| 9 | This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time . |
| 10 | Surprising though it may seem , although it is now well established that this is a serious problem with gliding , it is almost unknown in power flying circles or in the Air Force and it is taking many years to convince authorities . |
| 11 | However , most of what they say has been very constructive and it is taking on board these improvements where possible that give us a better service to our customers . |
| 12 | Formed in teams , this task it was then to er across the practice areas whose task it was to get into those clients , get to know them , get to know their industry , get to know the people and find ways in which we could actually penetrate them and er open doors and that was going to take a long time and it is taking a long time . |
| 13 | The Phoenix Arts Centre in Leicester is trying to shake off its persistent image of being just too highbrow for words and it is striving to show the general public that they might actually enjoy some of the things that go on there . |
| 14 | SCOTVEC considers the validation of courses and units to be a vital element in maintaining confidence in its new advanced awards and it is monitoring the process closely . |
| 15 | The company said sales so far this year are up by 16 p.c. and it is forecasting a further profit rise in 1992 . |
| 16 | Especially painted white and it is reflecting an awful lot of light . |
| 17 | We do have the Wolfe report but unfortunately not for the want of effort , the Wolfe report is turning out like the Black report and others and I do n't say that because there was a gentleman who done a report Black and it is gathering dust , the Wolfe report is on the same shelf , I believe . |
| 18 | IT IS war , and it is spreading . |
| 19 | It will be a modest help and it is moving in the right direction . |
| 20 | There 's that thing , my HAND , utterly repulsive , and it is moving , making tiny scrawls on the paper . |
| 21 | Religion has had a decisive influence on thinking about dreaming , and it is achieving a revival in many parts of the world . |
| 22 | This year , I have set the Employment Service the task of placing 1.3 million people in jobs — 5,000 every working day — and it is achieving that target . |
| 23 | And it is looking increasingly as if the date will be as much Mr Mandela 's own decision as the government 's . |
| 24 | The provisional Eritrean government has acknowledged the need to develop an effective communication policy in the months before independence in May 1993 , and it is looking for guidance from the churches and international organisations such as WACC . |
| 25 | The provisional Eritrean government has acknowledged the need to develop an effective communication policy in the months before independence in May 1993 , and it is looking for guidance from the churches and international organisations such as WACC . |
| 26 | It has expanded into Africa , Hong Kong and New Zealand , and it is looking closely at the early moves towards privatisation of British Rail . |
| 27 | It does not distress the fish , and it is eating normally . |
| 28 | The temperature is 2°C ( 36°F ) and it is raining ’ . |
| 29 | And it is exposing the region 's old nationalisms , which in the past have been crushed by force . |
| 30 | In collection building , it is working carefully with publishers to secure the deposit of electronic materials ; and it is exploring possible revisions to the law of ‘ copyright ’ deposit . |