Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will discuss a little later the emotions implications of this but for the moment we are reflecting on the practical issues that overwhelm the bereaved person . |
| 2 | ( The more lenders there are competing for the same customers , the hard for each has to work to attract a given number of customers — and an obvious way of attracting customers is by cutting rates . ) |
| 3 | This suggests that certain groups and individuals will be ‘ stronger ’ and better placed to obtain the housing they want , although this is something of an oversimplification since it implies that all are competing for the same types of house . |
| 4 | ‘ If I am struggling around the 15 miles mark then my determination will be just to finish , but it is my ambition to break 2hr 25min . ’ |
| 5 | Work on the launch and the focus of the appeal is close to completion and we are benefitting from the good offices of our advertising industry contacts . |
| 6 | Yes , Elizabeth Howell of Exploring Parenthood , certainly that is the case , both with parents and with people like teachers or child care workers , who are in locus parentis for many hours of the day , and our sense is very much that if the adults around children can feel supported and confident that they can acknowledge their own fears and anxieties that they will then be better be able to transmit that measured response to the children in their care and it was very interesting last week , I heard from an educational psychologist in the north of England who said that a group of teachers had asked from several schools to come together to think about the resources that they needed to set in place in order to deal with the children 's behaviour , and after the meeting , at which they were able to express their anxieties , they then returned to their various areas and when the psychologist contacted them a couple of days later they said we felt sufficiently supported by knowing that others are struggling with the same issues and that we could acknowledge our concerns about it , that we now feel able to get on with the job of helping the children , and I think that was a very good example of adults finding a way to acknowledge their own anxieties and thereby to increase their effectiveness in dealing with the children that in whose care they have . |
| 7 | SOLO FLIGHT Manson Bluebird Things are cooking in the fertile minds of Britain 's guitar builders . |
| 8 | In Orkney , favourite destination for many southerners fleeing the rat race , personal computers and modems are proliferating like the local rabbits . |
| 9 | In America it is settled by convention that law is made by statues enacted by Congress or the state legislatures in the manner prescribed by the Constitution , and in England that decisions by the House of Lords are binding on the lower courts . |
| 10 | B. The photographs show what changes are happening in the rurban fringes of the towns and cities . |
| 11 | Both government and opposition are grappling with the awkward consequences of an upsurge of religious tension inspired by militant Hindu claims to a disused Muslim mosque on a site believed to have been Lord Rama 's birthplace . |
| 12 | Some of the major questions to be asked are : what changes are occurring in the economic relations with former client states — Cuba , Mongolia and Vietnam — and how far is this affecting the latters ' future economic development ? |
| 13 | MAGAZINES are bidding for the first photos of five-day-old Louis , son of Princess Stephanie of Monaco , right . |
| 14 | they 're racing on the Thames at Henley as well … 950 competitors are rowing in the qualifying rounds for the royal regatta … 10 women scullers are trying to make it through … for the 950 there are only 330 places to be had so it 's going to be hard and fast … |
| 15 | Recognition that the members of organizations share group identities and have interests which may not coincide with others who are contributing to the same goals began with the Human Relations movement and its founder George Elton Mayo ( 1933 ) . |
| 16 | Overseas candidates who are applying from the following countries are advised to submit their applications to UCCA through the appropriate overseas students ' office in London as listed in an appendix to the UCCA handbook : Cyprus , Ghana ( private candidates only ) , Guyana , India , Luxembourg , Mauritius , Tanzania and Thailand . |
| 17 | Overseas candidates who are applying from the following countries are advised to submit their application to UCAS through the appropriate overseas students ' office in London listed in the UCAS handbook : Cyprus , Ghana ( private candidates only ) , Guyana , India , Luxembourg , Mauritius , Tanzania , Thailand . |
| 18 | And remember that you are walking for the psychological benefits as well as the fitness and slimness benefits . |
| 19 | Another 140,000 are starving in the outlying villages . |
| 20 | Up until now the naval salvoes are landing in the German positions somewhere in front of No. 6 Commando , at the other end of the village . |
| 21 | I am looking at the specific points that were made by the delegation to me earlier this month . |
| 22 | Those of us involved in English language studies and teaching , and perhaps those in particular who are swimming against the ever-shifting currents that comprise the National English Curriculum , can benefit from Morton 's method . |
| 23 | Programme makers are searching for the best children 's museum in Britain . |
| 24 | Er two points , one comes onto environment for Mr who says that they are seeking for the environmental benefits to the A sixty one and relates something to the percentages . |
| 25 | From here you are looking into the rear windows of Whitehall . |
| 26 | Customer clinics have shown that executive car buyers are looking for the following factors : durability , style , comfort , performance and interior space . |
| 27 | Parish council chairman Jack Holywell said it seems that the thieves are looking for the easy targets which they know will be left unguarded at night . |
| 28 | Prize money in Britain covers only about one quarter of these costs , which is why some owners are looking at the larger prizes available in other countries . |
| 29 | ‘ The Comrades Club in Crosby is a better location and I think people can see from some of the names that we are looking towards the top acts . ’ |
| 30 | The other visitors are living under the same conditions . ’ |