Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [prep] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | this explains why Golding 's choice of ending , rescue , is not anti-climatic as the choristers and schoolboys are returning to the same situation back in the outside world . |
| 2 | EXTERNAL VERIFICATION is the process by which SCOTVEC ensures that , on a national basis , centres are operating to the same standard . |
| 3 | After all , we are looking for the same thing . ’ |
| 4 | So contrasting is it that one may wonder whether its adherents are looking at the same thing at all : ‘ As the eighties unfold , humanity faces a worldwide shortage of productive cropland , acute land hunger in many countries , escalating prices for farmland almost everywhere … ’ |
| 5 | For example , if the adult holds an object , such as a doll , in the child 's line of gaze , the child is likely to look at the object and then immediately glance at the adult 's face to check that they are looking at the same thing . |
| 6 | Here we are looking at the same argument using the energy input in absolute terms . |
| 7 | Whenever you find an A.sessilis or A. reineckii you are looking at the same plant : A. rosaefolia . |
| 8 | They are living in the same house , eating at the same table , and , in the case of Lizzie , part of my own being . |
| 9 | The OR Staff are quite rightly intent on seeking battle-winning performance ; the scientists and technologists enjoy and rise to the challenge ; and so both the principal groups of participants in equipment development are pushing in the same direction without an effective countervailing force . |
| 10 | ‘ All I 'm trying to do is to find a solution to the problems we 're bound to run into if we 're living under the same roof , ’ she said stiffly . |
| 11 | ‘ This is not London , you know , and the local girls are happy-go-lucky , so the relationships when you 're living in the same house tend to be even more happy-go-lucky . ’ |
| 12 | They 're looking at the same place where … ’ |
| 13 | We 're going to the same destination . ’ |
| 14 | They 're going round the same circle because that is the shape of the surface . |
| 15 | We 're staying at the same hotel and sharing the same table , you see . |
| 16 | I 've yet to see a lovable moptop Inspiral Carpet in the flesh , but obviously they 're on the verge of making it here when they 're staying in the same hotel as Bruce Dickinson out of Iron Maiden . |
| 17 | Well they understand what they 're doing in the same way as they understand what they 're doing when they 're watching a video . |
| 18 | You can nae get a perception of , hear about you 're saying to the another person , you know ? |
| 19 | … I think you can only treat them similarly if all other things are equal , if they 're discharging into the same sort of watercourse in the same sort of position . |
| 20 | Now , I think once we 've established that , we can have argument about whether members need more assistance , but at least we 're arguing on the same basis , are n't we ? |
| 21 | And we 're talking at the same time as well ? |
| 22 | Cos we 're talking of the same product , one , one , quotes ninety six dollars and the other quotes a hundred and thirty seven dollars . |
| 23 | If we 're talking about the same phone call , the reason it was a woman who spoke to you was that we were both travelling in my car at the time — and I was driving . |
| 24 | Another valve might help ; after all , the Marshall has a couple and the Carvin is mob-handed with a total of nine — and I 'll say it again , we 're talking about the same price range here . |
| 25 | I 'd just like to say that only Conservatives could actually put need in one paragraph and slip straight into financial in the next and I assume they 're talking about the same thing . |
| 26 | We 've got a ladies luncheon in Glasgow for four hundred and the organiser , Ruth the chair of Glasgow branch , is being helped by two ladies from the business community erm Linda from the BAFTA award and Tessa who has her own marketing company , so we 're hoping to sort of pull in a lot of people from that erm Judy the chair of Scottish council , is yet again holding her Charlotte Square ball erm , this was very , very successful two years ago , I think you know erm and we 're hoping for the same success erm , we are very lucky that the Royal Highland Show has chosen us to be er the charity this year for the gala preview of the show erm this is er for three hundred people , a champagne reception erm sponsored by the Bank of Scotland , so that you go and see the flowers before the show opens the next day . |
| 27 | It is quite possible that the economy may converge to a steady state not characterized by equilibrium , e.g. , where capital and the labour force are growing at the same rate , but there is a constant level of unemployment . |
| 28 | Compared to the experience of hearing music ‘ live ’ even under unfavourable circumstances there is often very little sense that the musicians are pulling in the same direction , or that the music ebbs and flows in a natural , organic or above all believable way . |
| 29 | But these are not organised , structured animal societies — they are abnormal explosions of the locust population and they carry with them the seeds of their own downfall , as do modern human populations that are heading in the same direction . |
| 30 | It is quite obvious that if all of you are going for the same niche in the marketplace , as is happening increasingly at present , then it will be a highly competitive situation where you will have to rely even more than usual on the superiority of your own skills or technology to bring you through . |