Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least one top left-hander in the top six looks a must to help combat Warne 's leg-spin-and the odds on David Gower returning are shortening almost by the hour . |
| 2 | As you 'll have heard , bass makers Warwick are branching out into the area of specialised bass amplification . |
| 3 | Ironically Pembroke , the most recently developed area , where today new routes are tumbling out of the sky as fast as the climbers , has become the place where descriptions — starred pitches probably excluded — still offend mightily under the grade descriptions act . |
| 4 | But now other countries , particularly Korea and Japan , are competing successfully with the result that Britain and Clydeside have fewer orders . |
| 5 | In Britain in nineteen ninety three we are hanging on to the remains of our welfare state by our fingertips . |
| 6 | Richard Spink , of the Citizens Advice Bureaux , said : ‘ Thousands are hanging on by the skin of their teeth . |
| 7 | I hang my coat up and start to shout and tell those who are hanging around in the corridor to get outside until the bell goes . |
| 8 | Swingbeat New Editioners Bell Biv Devoe are hanging out in the lounge telling stories of how the helicopter in their latest video toppled off a windy roof . |
| 9 | " Another fashion we are stamping out on the plantation , Auguste , is Bolshevism , " he said , leaning earnestly towards the recruiter . |
| 10 | They 've made him lie with his hands behind his head , which is a trick they probably picked from a Miami Vice afternoon repeat , except it looks stupid when the guy 's hairy legs are sticking out from the tail of his shirt . |
| 11 | Casual work is growing most rapidly in the service and retail sectors but even traditional manufacturing companies are catching on to the trend . |
| 12 | Bookmakers Ladbrokes are catching up with the odds on races on four wheels instead of four legs and offering odds on Senna ( 11–8 ) and Prost ( 7–4 ) for the world championship during the week the cars were being loaded for the opening grand prix in Phoenix . |
| 13 | X-Windows technology suppliers are bandying together as the X Industry Association to promote X at the behest of the X Business Group . |
| 14 | Piece by small technical piece , these strategies are eating away at the consensus that originally made OS/2 seem a certainty as the computing world 's next-generation technical standard . |
| 15 | Such restraining views are typical of many that are fully justified by the emphasis upon process studies that characterized the 1960s and 1970s and led to smaller investment of resources in historical studies and to the fear that process studies will not profitably link back with chronological ones — in fact there are many indications that such links are happening again including the way in which physical geographers who have been mainly concerned with processes and modelling are moving towards evolution . |
| 16 | Such things are happening all over the country . |
| 17 | One or two preliminary studies have suggested that these changes are occurring unevenly across the country , but as yet there is little substantive research into this issue , even though it has been stressed as a priority question by the TUC itself . |
| 18 | Thankfully , some Scottish firms are muscling in on the act . |
| 19 | As a collective , people are contributing financially to the installation of new tube wells . |
| 20 | Now that new possibilities are opening up in the Balkans , they will modify this . |
| 21 | We are pressing ahead with the Birmingham northern relief road and western orbital route . |
| 22 | If you are walking down into the centre along Avenida do Infante , after the Savoy Hotel you pass the modern Casino Park Hotel and , behind it , the new Casino . |
| 23 | It is the fourth day of the month of June , and HARRY and PHIL are walking together in the garden of HARRY 'S house . |
| 24 | A SHOP 'S vintage hangover cure is proving so popular that regular users are walking in off the streets to take it at £1 a shot . |
| 25 | OLD HABITS are dying hard in the Eurobond market where two months have now elapsed since leading banks implemented a radical change in the way they organise the selling of new issues to investors . |
| 26 | And most of us have a general sense that things are pretty gloomy for people in the Third World : we might remember that Sudanese women must walk hours in search of firewood , that Brazilian peasants are still going hungry , that children are dying all over the world of something as simple and easily treatable as diarrhoea . |
| 27 | At 7.30 I am walking out through the town in the direction of Lochy bridge then across Blarmhor . |
| 28 | NURSES from South Tees are jetting off to the U.S. this month to find out about baby care , American style . |
| 29 | TEENAGE girls are ending up with the bones of old women because of eating disorders which are producing ‘ horrifying results ’ , a doctor said yesterday . |
| 30 | In parenthesis I should say that I am passing quickly over the significance of these four levels of understanding . |