Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The employees are accepting their fate with the usual mix of bitterness and resignation . |
| 2 | To get power , you are using your power against the power that the opponent gives to you . |
| 3 | Groups in our society such as Friends of the Earth , Greenpeace and the Green party are to be congratulated for the energetic way they are drawing our attention to the issues involved . |
| 4 | The earliest the matter can be raised again is in January when the new Congress returns , and although if the benefit is reintroduced it may well be retroactive to1 January , potential donors are biding their time for the moment . |
| 5 | Just as I am drawing his attention to the point and beginning what I know will be a long and wearying discussion , Mirsal , who has been fighting the cabman about his fare outside , appears and lets loose such a torrent of thumbnail word portraits of the clerk 's family that , used as I am to his powers in this respect , I am struck dumb with admiration . |
| 6 | I 've just realised that as we talk , we are hanging our show on the miners and that there is not one image by a woman . |
| 7 | With some clients , such as Nissan , Nuclear Electric , Volkswagon Audi and Flight Refuelling , we are auditing our performance in the catering and facilities operations directly with our clients , resulting in true contract partnership . ’ |
| 8 | I am helping my Pa with the outdoor work , as is right and proper . |
| 9 | It is a warm Saturday towards the end of the 1989–90 season , leagues are being decided , the unfortunates are being relegated and Scotland 's itinerant football fans are weaving their way to the citadels of Brechin , Forfar , and Cowdenbeath . |
| 10 | Monitoring rivals closely to copy good ideas and ensure that they are keeping their service in the forefront of developments |
| 11 | Market forces are pushing their way into the whole arena of debt servicing and conditions of grant aid so that the international rhetoric is moving away from comprehensive Primary Health Care to ‘ cost recovery ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ Is that why you 're hanging your washing on the Siegfried Line ? ’ |
| 13 | Blot : In earlier films , you 've suggested that female sexuality and capitalist codes of production are intertwined ; with this new film you 're turning your attention to the position of blacks in our society . |
| 14 | Next we 're turning our attention to the more difficult issue of whether any common approach can be adopted . |
| 15 | Can I just ask why you 're ignoring us lot on the ground floor ? |
| 16 | They 're breaking their part of the contract now . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're having your lamp on the 8th of January . ’ |
| 18 | I think they like to hold that position that they 're doing their bit for the school . |
| 19 | " Thank God something does You 're taking your time over the Gutteridge case . |
| 20 | ‘ He wants you , not Sammy or anyone else , and if you wo n't do it , then you 're not just putting Ellen 's money at risk , but you 're putting my commission on the line too , and I might not like that . ’ |
| 21 | Well , I think you 're you 're putting your finger on the issue that we brought up at the very beginning about this man in the churchyard . |
| 22 | Over in Nottinghamshire , Hucknall Town are marking their elevation to the Central Midlands League by producing a programme that would put many full-time clubs to shame . |
| 23 | The stated reason for doing so is that an increasing number of cardholders are paying their bill at the end of each month , pay nothing for the card , and are therefore being subsidised by those who do use the credit facility . |
| 24 | The club has criticised the fans for not turning up in bigger numbers to support the club but now they are turning their criticism on the manager . |
| 25 | And runners like Wimpey Homes site manager Paul Hatfield are turning their attention to the 30 mile , 50km , 40/50 mile and 100km ( 62.1 mile ) distances — for fun ! |
| 26 | Encouraged by the acceptability of more popular styles of composition , willing but inexperienced composers are turning their hand to the production of ‘ home-grown ’ music . |
| 27 | The answer seems to be — persons who are so closely and directly affected by my act that I ought reasonably to have them in contemplation as being so affected when I am directing my mind to the acts or omissions which are called into question . ’ |
| 28 | They say in the Hello ! magazine article that they are breaking their silence in the exclusive interview because ‘ now we have something positive to tell . ’ |
| 29 | The centre has now gathered a number of signatures from other voluntary and community groups which are supporting its request to the Office of Wages Councils to reconsider the abolition of the Wages Council . |
| 30 | The Ellis float is clearly a profitable one , but across the country fewer and fewer people are buying their milk on the doorstep , even though delivery charges average at just 52p a week . |