Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed I am rather coming round to the view that the trouble last year was not that we failed to produce as good policies as our opponents but that we failed to produce policies for the issues the electorate was most interested in . |
| 2 | I mean increasingly small authorities are effectively opting out of the national negotiat now we ca n't ignore th |
| 3 | Creatures that bestride the dividing line between amphibians and reptiles and between mammals and protomammals , are constantly turning up in the fossil record . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm going to turn into one of those old guys who are constantly harping on about the war , about ration books and bomb shelters . |
| 5 | They are making many staff redundant , and they are largely pulling out of the programme , thus leaving a huge hole in numbers and finance . |
| 6 | Users are finally coming round to the idea that applications are more important than the platform , he says , citing the UK supermarket chain , Sainsbury 's , which took ten months to decide that it would move to Unix , choosing its software before inviting companies to bid for the hardware contract . |
| 7 | Museums are finally coming in from the cold , to take their place alongside a whole range of other cultural facilities such as zoos , botanic gardens , planetariums , libraries , and the like — all of which are striving , in their own distinctive ways , to contribute to the informal education of the public as a whole . |
| 8 | I think I am just starting out on the steep , rocky — and lots of other corny metaphors — road to recovery . |
| 9 | Developers are already cottoning on to the trend by building houses with ready made work rooms . |
| 10 | Orders are already pouring in for the American-made scarves and bandanas that heat up when a liquid-filled pad is microwaved is placed into a pouch . |
| 11 | But these larger firms are already cutting down on the size of their student intake and , if the trend continues , will end up — as Grant Thornton has already done — recruiting and training only staff who are expected to make a career with the firm after qualifying . |
| 12 | The houses of Old Odborough are already lighting up for the evening , but it is not yet dark enough to see the lights farther away . |
| 13 | Yes , but On the last comment that er Chris made er bringing us and the letter to county about the the failure of the meeting on the twenty second cos we feel that they are just lying down to the situation and not pursuing a pursuing the D A P about whatsoever and erm we are , certainly in John 's letter probably get it signed tonight complaining and asking for a a meeting as soon as possible because we feel that that they ought to be pursuing the question of these two sites , they 're dragging their feet ! |
| 14 | Sure , they are soon going off into the night , their lights flickering and fading , but it will be with dignity . |
| 15 | ‘ We 're just going through to the hall , ’ said Dominic . |
| 16 | We 're not having a party we 're just gon na , they 're just coming round in the afternoon to play with you and we can have a drink and |
| 17 | If we 're doing add we 're just starting off with the counting numbers . |
| 18 | They 're always jumping out of the frame ( look elsewhere in this book at Nick 's action shots of skinheads on the move … |
| 19 | That 's very interesting because we 're always going back to the earlier comment that , perhaps people like scientists , like sociologists are intelligent , but not in touch . |
| 20 | Five and six in the morning , and you 're always waking up in the middle of the night cos you do n't know , you know , if summat 's happened or summat 's gon na happen . |
| 21 | Th the remit though that , that we 're actually putting down on the appointment contract , is actually the result of the negotiations between the project coordinator and the client . |
| 22 | The Samukhela , people who are always harking back to the good old pre-independence days and want to emigrate , are addressed in the first song : ‘ But Samukhela when you get there you 'll think of home — the home of Africa … you 'll miss your mother you 'll miss your father ’ . |
| 23 | The Samukhela , people who are always harking back to the good old pre-independence days and want to emigrate , are addressed in the first song : ‘ But Samukhela when you get there you 'll think of home — the home of Africa … you 'll miss your mother you 'll miss your father ’ . |
| 24 | If your teenagers are always queuing up outside the bathroom , it might be a good idea to think about installing washbasins in their bedrooms . |
| 25 | Things do n't look likely to improve , since recruits are hardly piling up at the door . |
| 26 | Parts of the county are still sobering up from the unprecedented celebrations . |
| 27 | While people down south are still lying out in the sun and enjoying their holidays , up here we have to start planning well ahead for the long winter to come . |
| 28 | However , printed opaques are still walking out of the shops this Christmas . ’ |
| 29 | I read reports that convoys of ‘ our boys ’ are hopelessly blundering about in the desert , completely lost within 30 miles of the Kuwaiti frontier . |
| 30 | By this time stress waves are probably racing about in the material in all directions at the speed of sound ( that is faster than the crack ) , being reflected off both old and new surfaces , and we are likely to end up with not one crack but with a great many . |