Example sentences of "[conj] [am/are] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Names that are flying around at the moment are the US General Accounting Office , the Stanford Research Institute or one of the US National Laboratories such as the Los Alamos Lab . |
| 2 | To do this it uses raw materials that are drifting around in the cell , being , very probably , the products of other protein machines . |
| 3 | Its mangrove swamps are rapidly being wiped out by pollution from the satellite towns that are springing up along the shore . |
| 4 | Well , I mean , it 's a sticky wicket for them anyway politically and I suspect as with a lot of legislation quite recently they simply have n't spent the time in committee and in consultation to iron out the details and they 've come unstuck when it 's come into the public domain and it 's been easy for people to throw up the paradoxes that are coming up from the legislation , the moral paradoxes . |
| 5 | Dramatic as imprinting is as a form of learning , it suffered from my point of view from the problem that for a bird to become imprinted requires exposing it to the stimulus , the flashing light or whatever , for a couple of hours ; memory builds up slowly over that time , and so the cellular changes that are going on during the period inevitably intermingle the effects of learning and of visual stimulation with those of memory formation . |
| 6 | Because because there 's so many there 's so many things that are going on at the moment that it it does take time . |
| 7 | What we were expecting and erm he wanted to know , to a large extent , how we felt about all the erm things that are going on in the parish . |
| 8 | But if you think about it in contemporary terms I I was giving a lecture in London er a couple of weeks ago erm on the subject of erm America 's changing foreign policy under Clinton if you just think about foreign policy making and who makes it , and questions of consistency and you think about some of the crises that are going on in the world from Bosnia and so on what does the constitution tell us ? |
| 9 | Switchboard use it a lot again , to try and get to the bottom of , you know , calls that are going through to the wrong place and things like that . |
| 10 | There 's some that are going up at the moment to this pond , they develop them for the next three years to spend their life in the fresh water feeding , and what we 're trying to do here is to see just how many there are in , in the river er as a total . |
| 11 | The artistic reason is that he is old-hat ; Catalans prefer to be known for the airy constructions that are going up for the Olympic Games . |
| 12 | Well I ca n't stop their perception of the fact that the staff that are disappearing out of the office come from the P T section . |
| 13 | If the idea of popping a PC or a printer into your shopping trolley alongside the jam , teabags and toilet paper appeals to you , why not try a day out to one of the PC World superstores that are cropping up on the outskirts of London ? |
| 14 | Well no it 's , it 's the same councillors that 's come to your door that are sitting in on the meeting and saying no , it 's impossible ! |
| 15 | These people are going into the familiar local stores where they shop and are walking out with the American dream they could never afford on a minimum wage . |
| 16 | Current members seem satisfied that they are receiving good value for money , and are signing up for the second membership year which starts in May . |
| 17 | Every time I come here I begin to worry that I have somehow crossed into another stream and am sailing back in the opposite direction . |