Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present , local authorities are building not for the poorest , nor for the slum-dweller , but mainly for those better off . |
| 2 | Wales welcome their arch-humiliators with open jaws , the scent of an overdue kill growing in nostrils that are flaring again under the inspirational coaching of Alan Davies . |
| 3 | Kurdish people are hanging on in the northern part of Iraq , desperately in need of support and aid that must come to them before a harsh winter sets in . |
| 4 | We are touching here on the sensitive area of competitive tendering and of privatisation . |
| 5 | It might be that your ambitions are seriously flawed and you are preaching only to the converted . |
| 6 | The growing demands and applications being made of plastics are filtering through to the additive market , requiring them to be constantly updated and made more efficient , and thus leading to higher prices , explained the report . |
| 7 | Current members seem satisfied that they are receiving good value for money , and are signing up for the second membership year which starts in May . |
| 8 | Zapp is the supreme professional , who embodies , albeit comically , those ideals of professionalism that have long been dominant in the North American academy and are becoming so in the British . |
| 9 | New opportunities are opening up in the near future which you must be calm enough to accept . |
| 10 | These people are going into the familiar local stores where they shop and are walking out with the American dream they could never afford on a minimum wage . |
| 11 | ‘ There are thousands , maybe tens of thousands , who are dying out in the rural areas , or as they make their way to the towns to get help . |
| 12 | As we near the end of the 20th century our horizons must extend well beyond our own national frontiers , to our new relationships which are developing fast in the European Community and to our obligations and opportunities in the exciting , but often perilous circumstances of the post Cold War world . |
| 13 | , Small birds , including great tits and bluetits , are unable to rear so many young because the caterpillars on which they depend are developing faster in the warmer summers . |
| 14 | But I am looking forward to the first leg . |
| 15 | I am looking forward to the usual summer visitors . |
| 16 | He continued : ‘ I am looking forward to the next Labour government throwing out the Tory anti-union laws and giving working people the protection that they need to conduct legitimate industrial action . |
| 17 | I am looking forward to the next stage of Tencel and we are already working with Fibers and Research to set up the teams for a new project . |
| 18 | SIR — As director of a company which supplies market research data to the pharmaceutical industry in the Republic of Ireland , I am looking forward to the forthcoming explanations from United Kingdom opinion poll organisations . |
| 19 | ‘ Other members of the herd are swimming around in the blood-red sea as this killing continues . |
| 20 | It says two Darlington pubs the Hole in the Wall and Lascelles Park are operating well under the new leases and that they are a unique way of putting pubs on a proper commercial footing . |
| 21 | I'Anson Cup champions Churt CC are looking forward to the new season , having wintered well at the Bohunt School indoor nets . |
| 22 | SUPER SMILE Mum Fran and brave little Laura are looking forward to the new Christmas baby . |
| 23 | ‘ Now we are looking forward to the new season and despite the difficult climate we are hoping membership holds steady . |
| 24 | ‘ We are looking forward to the entire programme following a format the ELCA helped pioneer , ’ said John L Peterson , ELCA Director for Public Media . |
| 25 | As one motor racing season comes to an end , a Banbury engineering company are looking forward to the next . |
| 26 | Liphook & Ripsley Cricket Club are looking forward to the coming season with great expectation . |
| 27 | Harris and his colleagues are looking specifically at the charred remains of cereal grains , identifying the different characteristics of wild and cultivated grains . |
| 28 | MORE people are looking in at the local , if figures from West Country brewer Devenish are any guide . |
| 29 | DALLAS COWBOYS , the youngest team in the NFL , are looking more like the best in the league every week . |
| 30 | But perhaps we are looking entirely in the wrong place for any significant employment gains in industry . |