Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] are [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He detailed recent job losses including yesterday 's news that 2,000 workers from the Government 's Defence Research Agency are heading for the scrapheap . |
| 3 | " Officers of the City of London Fraud Squad are enquiring into the affairs of Rubber Improvement Ltd . |
| 4 | The rugby club are helping with the organisation . |
| 5 | Volleyball : Chelmsford Partners women 's volleyball side are banking on a wealth of experience to give them the edge this Sunday in their first English Volleyball Association Cup Final.The team has an average age of nearly 34 , but they still fancy their chances of defeating a younger Sheffield Wednesday at Riverside ( start 1.30 pm ) . |
| 6 | Unix International , the Open Software Foundation , X/Open Group Co Ltd , ISO , the Network Management Forum and the Object Management Group are co-operating in a joint effort to define some generic specifications for managing resources ( as objects ) in distributed , object-based systems . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Many announcements made by the Home Secretary are moving in the way that I have always wanted it to move , and I believe that er , in Wiltshire this will have a very positive effect . |
| 9 | 39 RESTORATION GROUP are looking for a volunteer , local to the North Weald airfield area , to help them to organise their newsletters and membership details . |
| 10 | External bodies such as the National Council for Vocational Qualifications and the Health and Safety Executive are forcing through the increased professionalisation of the teaching and climbing and the rescuing of climbers . |
| 11 | A common or garden dispute : Peter Dunn and his beech hedge are maturing after a boundary battle |
| 12 | Sticking with clothing , those hapless popsters OCEAN COLOUR SCENE are grieving over the loss of more than £2,000 worth of T-shirts which managed to fall out of the back of their van while they drove through the Moseley area of Birmingham last week . |
| 13 | Representatives of the cream of Scotland 's film and television industry are gathering in a Glasgow hotel at the moment for the Scottish version of the Academy awards . |
| 14 | But 16 of the 89 residues in the polypeptide chain are missing from the model , mostly at the C terminus , and poorly defined density is visible in the region containing the missing residues . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Researchers from Washington State University are embarking on a three-year project to measure the amount of methane produced by belching cows . |
| 17 | Vigorous evangelism and church planting are continuing among an exceptionally responsive people . |
| 18 | STAFF at the European Space Agency are heading for a clash with officials from several member-countries who want to cut their salaries . |
| 19 | For example , when a Mozambican and expatriate doctor are working in the same hospital , the expatriate may have access to more drugs . |
| 20 | ‘ Government plans for a radical shake-up of the local government system are proceeding against the grain of Scottish public opinion , according to researchers at Edinburgh University . |
| 21 | The stalwarts of the Hunterston Cycle Club are taking to the road again in the name of charity . |
| 22 | Downland Housing Association are building at the Larch Cottage site , Portsmouth Road , while the second site is at Lynchborough Road , Passfield . |
| 23 | Oh , she 's got all the answers up her sleeve I expect , but that has caused tremendous debt charges , which , at the moment , have to be paid , and whether we could find a private operator to take them on or not I do n't know , but private operators operate throughout the country and in many other of the districts within the county of Oxfordshire , and they operate efficiently and do just as good a job as the City Council are doing in the present situation . |
| 24 | As I have told the House before on numerous occasions , the days of the nation state are coming to an end . |
| 25 | HOUSE builders in the North West are looking for the Government to do more to stimulate sales and economic growth . |
| 26 | As long as Kristeva 's third stage is present in our thinking only as a Utopian dream , feminists can not simply refuse to get involved in this endless discourse of difference ; people who claim that this is a postfeminist era are living in a dream world . |
| 27 | THE school holiday are drawing to a close so take advantage of an offer from Red Funnel ferries and give the kids something to talk about when the new term starts by popping across to the Isle of Wight . |
| 28 | POLICE in Co Down are searching for a thief who locked a safe after stealing its church collection contents from a parochial house . |
| 29 | But the days of Wallace being only a bit part player are coming to an end . |
| 30 | Leaders of Britain 's freight industry are calling on the European Commission to help free U K truck drivers trapped by road blocks on the French Spanish border . |