Example sentences of "[n mass] be [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have your sheep been suffering much from the staggers ? |
| 2 | Of course , aircraft were flying long before the development of powerful mathematical models . |
| 3 | One moment the tow is quite normal and the next , his aircraft is diving vertically into the ground . |
| 4 | Yes , worried folk were coming along from the Tower to Billingsgate , some carrying a few possessions . |
| 5 | My preference when fish are feeding hard on the bottom is for the fixed paternoster which , due to the lead being at the extreme end of the line , casts further and more accurately than any other set-up . |
| 6 | As fish are sinking back through the surface , other fish will be appearing through it , so that there is constant activity . |
| 7 | A lot of big fish were heading out through the gap . |
| 8 | Slowly people are moving away from the marginal fringe . |
| 9 | MORE people are looking in at the local , if figures from West Country brewer Devenish are any guide . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | At the same time I think some people are going well over the top in slagging off Wilko . |
| 12 | Sarah ( 4.10 ) : The people are going up into the boat . |
| 13 | As our eyes open to the perilous state of the world , it is hardly surprising that so many sensible people are turning instinctively to the land and looking for smallholdings . |
| 14 | The British people are fighting back against the shoddy treatment with which we have put up for so long . |
| 15 | As a collective , people are contributing financially to the installation of new tube wells . |
| 16 | IBM was perceived as the winner , just as today , even the things it does right are in trouble because IBM is perceived as the industry 's most emphatic loser , and more and more people are talking seriously about the company being in danger of going the same way as Prime Computer Inc , Wang Laboratories Inc and Control Data Corp . |
| 17 | Sales are expanding considerably in the home market , using the ready made Stoddard Templeton sales force as an additional initiative on the retail side , backed up with an extensive contract involvement . |
| 18 | People were drifting away from the house , moving into the garden . |
| 19 | Groups of people were drifting leisuredly towards the park . |
| 20 | This worked very well , but in 1988 people were pushing in from the sides instead of joining the queues , and tempers were becoming frayed and the situation somewhat dangerous as people trampled over the numerous electricity cables and water pipes . |
| 21 | The club , by now had spilled out into a sort of annexe conservatory at the back of the room and by the time the summer arrived , people were spilling out into the garden and , in fact , used to come into the club by this route illegally . |
| 22 | In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles . |
| 23 | I had told them what others were saying to me : people were working hard behind the scenes and publicity could be dangerous . |
| 24 | By 1930 , from 400,000 to 450,000 people were travelling in from the suburbs to work in Paris : 180,000 into the Gares Saint-Lazare , Montparnasse , and des Invalides , 90,000 into the Gare du Nord , 85,000 into the Gares de l'Est and de la Bastille , and 45,00 into the Gares d'Austerlitz , d'Orsay , and de Lyon . |
| 25 | People were climbing down from the truck and seemed to be forming another queue . |
| 26 | Several people were embarking also into the car behind dining car , into the car which comprised three bedrooms , a bar , a large lounge area and an upstairs glass-domed observation deck , the whole lot known , I 'd discovered , a the dome car . |
| 27 | People were running out onto the deck , and screaming . |
| 28 | People were turning away from the dance spectacle to watch , with varying degrees of amusement , the small drama being enacted in their midst . |
| 29 | It says people were turning again to the old tried and true spices of Guilt and Feeling Dirty and Furtiveness And Stuff in a frantic attempt to resurrect the whole sad affair . |
| 30 | Save the Children reported that 200 people were dying daily in the capital . |