Example sentences of "[adj] are [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Competitions like this are assisting in the development of equipment and the interaction between teams in the arena and afterwards is absolutely superb .
2 Half are going to the regions , especially the south-west .
3 According to UNEP 's figures , desertification is taking as much land out of agricultural use as exploiters of one kind or another are clearing in the rainforests :
4 Teenagers at Haughton Comprehensive are working with the professionals from the Phoenix Dance Company as schools throughout the country prepare to teach dancing for the first time .
5 The Japanese are coming to the rescue in other areas , too .
6 If I clean these and I do n't get a pound these are going in the pond
7 About 50% of these are studying for the Diploma in Legal Practice and 50% pursuing the LL.M. , M.Sc. , M.Phil .
8 The report suggests there is a glut of exstudents from 1990 and 1991 who have yet to find work , and these are adding to the problems faced by the most recently qualified .
9 Security officials concede the enormity of their task as there are around 4,000 militants in the Valley trained in the use of arms and explosives by Pakistan while another 3,000 are waiting for the winter snows to melt so they can cross over into India from Pakistan .
10 I do n't know how many are going to the funeral on Wednesday morning , it 's ten o'clock at Sacred Heart .
11 NOT too many are betting against the Dallas Cowboys retaining the National Football Conference title and then making it two Super Bowls in a row .
12 At the same time , we have also to exist with the knowledge that the planet and its poor are breaking under the strain of that same economic system to which there is , nevertheless , no alternative .
13 It is important to appreciate that the processes which are illustrated in Figure 4 are going on the surface of a special structure ( it is called a ‘ ribosome ’ ) , which acts rather like the assembly line on which cars are put together , holding the various molecules in position .
14 Some of the crew will go on to work on Tornados ; more are staying in the area for family reasons and will move to Brize Norton or Lyneham where they 'll be working on VC10s .
15 Now it seems a lot more are going to the dealers .
16 Others have since arrived without permission , reinforcing rumours that hundreds more are heading for the county , after being evicted from festival sites in Somerset .
17 And so the ASEAN-4 are following in the tigers ' footsteps .
18 GIRLS as young as nine are dieting in the hope of achieving the willowy figures of models they admire in fashion magazines and on television .
19 This is an ultralight version of the famous ‘ Flying Flea ’ , and several are flying on the Continent .
20 The young are walking on the riverbank ,
21 The children aged four-and-a-half to seven are working with the Construction Curriculum Centre based at the town 's College of Technology .
22 The drug industry points out that either course could harm more people than it helps , particularly if thousands are benefiting from the treatment .
23 Both are competing in the Manchester track 's Gorton Cup , and if Pond Tornado repeats its earlier form , his Derby odds could come tumbling down .
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