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

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1 You react like one when you burn the toast , so why should n't you react like one when you are pitching for a new account ?
2 ‘ Care managers are stepping into a different world , managing budgets and telling clients when they ca n't do something because there is no more money .
3 With the threat of relegation looming again , the loss of the ground , and the millstone around my neck of a team of asthmatic pine martens with the collective brain power of a kiwi fruit , the pressures on me are building to a frightening pitch .
4 Stars from the National English Opera , Janice Cairns ( soprano ) and Anthony Mee ( tenor ) are singing in a Grand Opera Gala with full orchestra and chorus at Sunderland Empire at 7.30pm , Saturday March 28 .
5 It moves the word you are typing to a new line when it enters an invisible margin running down the right-hand side of the screen .
6 Universities and colleges are looking to expand their intakes , but are drawing on a shrinking population of 18-year-olds .
7 The fiscal argument is that welfare state benefits for the poor cost relatively less in the more affluent States , because they are drawing on a larger tax base ; the higher the average income in a State , the smaller the effort required to finance a programme at a given level of payments ( because presumably there will be both fewer recipients plus more rich people to tax than in States with low average incomes ) .
8 Through it , Palestinians are struggling on a daily basis to shake off Israel 's authority and to construct their own .
9 Pels-Leusden in Berlin , and Wolfgang Werner 's Berlin and Bremen galleries and Edwin Vömel in Düsseldorf are collaborating on a large-scale project designed as a tribute to a largely undiscovered sculptor , Hermann Blumenthal ( 1905–42 ) .
10 But other places are experimenting with a different mechanism : controlling the market .
11 However much the family cling to their culture and security , the younger generation at work and school are grappling with a different set of realities ; the wisdom of the older family member may be less acceptable .
12 Again the doors closed tightly initially , but , praise God , they are opening in a big way .
13 The Director of the State Historical Library , Mikhail Afanas'yev , has confessed in an interview with the newspaper Kuranty that , ‘ Books from captured German holdings are perishing to a limited extent ’ .
14 SKIERS from the Middle East are praying to a new Mecca , the holy shrine of — Inverness .
15 Priests inside Malawi are pressing for a new statement from the bishops .
16 ALMOST four years after the 1985 crash of an airliner in Gander , Newfoundland , in which 248 US servicemen were killed , a group of congressmen are pressing for a new inquiry into the disaster .
17 It is significant that it is the Africans who are pressing for a partial lifting of the ban and the maligned fur trade has made no move in that direction .
18 The puppet pigs with the squeaky voices who captured the imagination of a generation of youngsters are appearing in a new ITV children 's series on puppetry .
19 In any dodgy situation , whether you are walking down a lonely street or standing in a crowded bar where an argument is brewing , make sure that you are aware of possible escape routes .
20 If we do our work well walkers wo n't realise that they are walking on a reconstructed path .
21 Then , if you wish , split your walks into a.m. and p.m. on alternate days when you are walking at a moderate pace .
22 Yeah well I was talking , I was talking to a friend and they said that , you know , there 's some homophobic attacks and some of them just happen to occur because people are walking in a gay area
23 Several disposable types are available from pet shops , and are essential for dog owners where it is compulsory to clean up after their pets if they are walking in a public area .
24 Crêches can be expensive to run and it is possible that charges will be prohibitive , particularly if you are returning on a modest pay grade .
25 More evidence of the worldwide decline of coral has emerged from Florida , where researchers who have been monitoring the health of the reefs since 1976 report that they are dying at a rapid rate .
26 If you are holidaying in a hot climate , do not expose the camcorder to the sun for long periods , and take a neutral density filter along with you if the light is likely to be particularly brilliant ( sunlight on snow , for example ) to avoid the risk of spoiling shots through over exposure .
27 This means ministers are wrangling for a bigger share of the cake .
28 For people who are training for a particular sport such as karate , specific exercises can be inserted in the routine , for example alternate mae-geri or squat/standup/mae-geri .
29 Suddenly Europe tells me I am living in a new country called Bosnia-Hercegovina .
30 However , my corresponding Ego fantasy is of losing my wits to such an extent that I am unable to work ; I am living in a filthy bedsit and the floor is strewn with pieces of paper that I am unable to make sense of , final demands which have not been paid , dirty clothes , plants which have fallen over , unwashed plates and mugs — and I am curled up in a foetal ball , wishing the world would go away !
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