Example sentences of "[n mass] are [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the fry are swirling in the air stone 's current , I stop the aeration temporarily , and observe whether they settle , or jerk around , having become free swimming . |
| 2 | It also oxygenates the water on warm summer nights or in thundery weather at a time when the fish are competing with the plants for oxygen . |
| 3 | Many of the coarse fish are spawning in the vegetation at the side of the waterways from February through to July and April is the first full month that the fishermen give them the peace and quiet to do this . |
| 4 | Will my hon. Friend please look into the matter because those people are living off the system that they seek to destroy with their bombs and bullets ? |
| 5 | The personal social service departments of local authorities are similarly stretched , with priority in many areas going to statutory work with children , and more and more older people are living in the community either without support or with help from relatives increasingly burdened by this caring role . |
| 6 | More people are living in the countryside and in new towns than ever before . |
| 7 | More people are living in the Thames Valley region and rely on rivers . |
| 8 | ‘ What we have said in the McFarlane Report is that people are calling for the earth , we ca n't give it all but we can give them a substantial part . |
| 9 | Types of occupation have altered , although farming is the predominant industry , and more people are commuting from the parish . |
| 10 | In exactly the same way , too many people are looking into the mind of the homosexual rather than considering the repugnance that is caused to millions of decent people all over the country … . |
| 11 | A. Our experience shows that many people are looking at the possibilities of working in this area and , therefore , with rules of supply and demand being what they are , a language ability is almost essential . |
| 12 | ‘ The figures we found are not significantly different to those anywhere else where people are looking for the problem . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The biggest single item people are discussing on the doorsteps is the poll tax . |
| 14 | ‘ People are commenting on the spirit we have shown but I think we have also played some good football . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ But is n't it the case , ’ I ask him , ‘ that while people are piling into the cinemas to see the worst exports of Hollywood , they are also piling in to see our own films , such as Alan Parker 's The Commitments , which has after all just won the Bafta award for best film . ’ |
| 16 | People are flocking to the churches and the number of baptisms , confirmations and weddings is breaking all records . |
| 17 | Yeah , people are wondering into the property |
| 18 | Even when people are sitting in the chairs I think I could push them over , and bigger things too , much bigger things than chairs and tables … |
| 19 | A party of physically handicapped people are heading for the sun of Majorca later this month on a holiday organised by Cleveland County Council social services . |
| 20 | One of the other things I found that people are conflicting in the paper erm is of people having to travel further erm if I can just yes , on pa , on page three , paragraph this is the choice that seems of the area and the travel and on page four , paragraph one the version says that local people will still get a choice of i in the London hospitals . |
| 21 | He 's going to record seminars that he is doing , and also seminars other people are doing in the department . |
| 22 | This decision , which honours Cape Verde , has been interpreted by us as a recognition of the unwearying efforts the Capeverdian government and people are making in the struggle to build a new society based on social justice , progress and equal opportunity . |
| 23 | People are going to the match because it 's Cornwall 's day out . ’ |
| 24 | How many people are working in the field ? |
| 25 | Because so many different people are working in the field of syntax there are a large number of different approaches taken . |
| 26 | Around 900 people are working in the area at present . |
| 27 | FOUR people are standing for the chairmanship of the Scottish Liberal Democrats . |
| 28 | People are standing in the corridor . |
| 29 | The increased number of sailings and competitive pricing means more people are turning to the ferries for their journeys to Britain . |
| 30 | People are becoming with the word incest — although who would guess that an estimated one in four families are believed to have experience of this ? |