Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those on the brink of buying are mostly waiting until the election is out of the way before committing themselves to a new house , but City financier Christopher Moran thinks they are all wrong . |
| 2 | In sorry contrast to the Italian Village , several rows of two-storey brick houses are slowly rising from the ground . |
| 3 | The borings are concentrated high on the pillars but are remarkably lacking on the masonry lower down . |
| 4 | The Bradford City supporters are constantly writing to the rag complaining of too much coverage for Leeds ( It really does piss them off ) . |
| 5 | Mr Pratt , whose father Glyn was a former Merseyside County Councillor , added : ‘ We are constantly hearing about the desire to breathe new life back into New Brighton . |
| 6 | What 's worse is that the commentators are constantly fawning to the scum , the game against us at the pigstye being the prime example , going on the BBC coverage Leeds did n't appear to touch the ball let alone get it out of their own half . |
| 7 | What 's worse is that the commentators are constantly fawning to the scum , the game against us at the pigstye being the prime example , going on the BBC coverage Leeds did n't appear to touch the ball let alone get it out of their own half . |
| 8 | Even in the midst of " participating " we are constantly interpreting in the light of what we know and expect . |
| 9 | We are constantly talking to the press try and persuade them to give us more coverage . |
| 10 | Care in the community is a new national policy for dealing with the mentally ill , following the closure of psychiatric hospitals , but many former patients are apparently falling through the net . |
| 11 | Such discussions not only take an inordinate amount of time ( a subtle form of disobedience ) , but they are subversive because they are so rewarding to the child . |
| 12 | I am merely reporting on the fate to have befallen every other Minister for Sport you can care to mention which is one of the reasons why we are still debating the kind of football stadiums we should have for the future when every other country besides Botswana and the Cocos Islands have already built theirs . |
| 13 | I believe I am merely following along the path which he once trod out . |
| 14 | Spokesman Sylvia Rigby said : ‘ They seem to think we are only objecting to the level of the charge but we are against it all together . ’ |
| 15 | It is important to bear in mind the fundamental rule of agency law , that the acts of an agent are only binding on the principal if the agent had actual or apparent authority to perform those acts . |
| 16 | This is the stage to take decisive action , because by ignoring this threat gesture , you are merely acquiescing to the dog s challenge , and adopting a subordinate position . |
| 17 | The aim of this Lecture is to incorporate some of the important real-world features which are patently missing from the model of Lecture 6 . |
| 18 | I am not referring to the debate on methods : the disagreements of the floggers and anti-floggers are dwarfed by the appalling facts of prison provision and the deficiencies of our penal system . |
| 19 | ‘ I am not going into the barn ! ’ |
| 20 | I am not talking with the benefit of hindsight when I say his success has not surprised me . |
| 21 | I am not talking about the phrase , ’ federal vocation ’ . |
| 22 | Now , by loneliness I am not talking about the absence of friends and occasional breaks from people . |
| 23 | I am not talking about the absence of an ad hoc electrical connection or about the presence of other things , either specifically or under some general description or by some general means , when I make the conditional statement . |
| 24 | I am not saying to the farmer , ‘ You must use fewer insecticides . ’ |
| 25 | I am not saying to the politician , ‘ You must get your act together . ’ |
| 26 | I am not saying to the consumer in all of us , ‘ You must eat less , drive less , enjoy life less . ’ |
| 27 | Lord Fraser was pressed by MPs with examples of rises in contributions that people would have to pay towards legal aid and said : ‘ I am not shrinking from the fact that there will be increases in the contribution for some people . ’ |
| 28 | ( b ) Where however the prosecution evidence is such that its strength or weakness depends on the view to be taken of a witness 's reliability , or other matters which are generally speaking within the province of the jury and where on one possible view of the facts there is evidence upon which a jury could properly come to the conclusion that the defendant is guilty , then the judge should allow the matter to be tried by the jury . |
| 29 | ‘ At the moment I am just flowing with the tide , following whatever is on offer to me that I like . |
| 30 | Does he realise that France and Germany are already benefiting from the scheme , but that we are denied it because of the Government 's obstinacy ? |