Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detectives working on the case are working on the theory that they died of hypothermia or suffocation or a combination of both . |
| 2 | The purpose of the remainder of this chapter is to analyse the changing structure and composition of the national population , assess the principal dimensions of population redistribution , and examine the impact which both these sources of change are having on the geography of Britain . |
| 3 | most days you 'll find Tony Meek racing his dogs at the Oxford stadium … not tonight … because the speedway machines are there … its a gala night … the top twenty riders from the second division are racing for the Service Master Trophy … |
| 4 | Current advances in graptolite biostratigraphy are leading to the recognition of further subdivisions in the Ordovician and Silurian which provide an accurate calibration for parallel work on acritarchs and chitinozoa . |
| 5 | But both Dr Kohl and Mr Modrow , aware that the hopes of many for reunification are growing by the day , and more quickly than the politicians can accommodate , tried to cool expectations . |
| 6 | HOUSE builders in the North West are looking for the Government to do more to stimulate sales and economic growth . |
| 7 | Downland Housing Association are building at the Larch Cottage site , Portsmouth Road , while the second site is at Lynchborough Road , Passfield . |
| 8 | Miss Bangholm reports that members of the club are hanging around the hall as girls are leaving and some of them are rather afraid . |
| 9 | The stalwarts of the Hunterston Cycle Club are taking to the road again in the name of charity . |
| 10 | The rugby club are helping with the organisation . |
| 11 | The remains of the old Motherwell car are lying in the inspection pit underneath ! |
| 12 | On the contrary , all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe . |
| 13 | The Regional Secretary 's Department are dealing with the transfer from payroll 51 to payroll 57 and 501 , of some of the DS0 Cleaning and Catering staff . |
| 14 | It is strange therefore that the signal box instruments revealed it as clear , the signal must have been at green , or had a heavy weight been lying across the signal wire ? |
| 15 | May I draw to my hon. Friend 's attention a report in the Sunday Express pointing out that paramilitaries convicted of bombing and murder are sheltering in the Republic are drawing more than £2 million per week in dole money and social security , paid for by the British taxpayer , while many would face reconviction if they returned to Ulster ? |
| 16 | Because both sides of the political divide are benefiting from the traffic , the issue is brushed under the carpet . |
| 17 | Power stations use up valuable resources and create pollution — but could an environmentally friendly alternative be blowing in the wind ? |
| 18 | Thus , in a study by Abel-Smith and Townsend ( 1965 ) , a third of the poor were the aged , and almost half the old-age pensioners in their study were living below the poverty line . |
| 19 | Now , the honey-gold , palm-dotted ramparts and fortifications of Grand Harbour were receding in the distance , the Mediterranean was crystal-clear turquoise beneath them , and the huge arc of the sky seemed to be widening invisible blue arms above the horizon . |
| 20 | When North Harbour were aiming for the top in New Zealand it took four years of struggle — getting beaten by the top provinces — before we managed to make our own mark . |
| 21 | Raynor had tipped a basket of logs on to the fire , and warmth and light were washing over the room . |
| 22 | Once again , however , it was felt that this solution was not entirely acceptable since the words degradation and humiliation were lacking in the certainty desirable for criminal legislation . |
| 23 | Richard Fynes noted that : ‘ The men were sufficiently endowed with natural interest to be observant of the effect of wind upon the ventilation of the mines , and even as late as 1822 , before barometers and thermometers were generally used in the pits to indicate the state of the temperature , if the wind were blowing from the southeast threatening rain , the men refused to work . ’ |
| 24 | In the closing years of the nineteenth century , just as the eastern Germans were leaving the land and deserting the east , at the very time that the Polish population of the border districts was on the rise , the theoretical and practical policies of both the Polenpolitik and the Kulturkampf were hardening around the drive towards industrial and imperial expansion — if not overseas , which was almost impossible — then in the eastern borderlands . |
| 25 | FUNNY how religion is creeping into the environment debate . |
| 26 | The Association is paying for the work , expected to cost in the region of £5,500 ( $9,600 ) from donations worldwide and has also launched an appeal for funds to restore the whole altar . |
| 27 | Apart from working closely with the Benevolent Fund , The Association is contributing to the work of The Council of British Service and Ex-Service Organisations . |
| 28 | Such structures also seem to provide a kind of elementary momentum in periods where a discipline is in the doldrums , and not a great deal is happening at the research level . |
| 29 | A SOUTH Donegal town has been rocked by rumours that a black magic ring is operating in the area . |
| 30 | The FA has taken the extraordinary step of bringing the clubs to book because of the tightrope football is walking between the laws of the game and the law of the land . |