Example sentences of "[noun sg] [am/are] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Schemes similar to Horse Watch are springing up around the country , initiated originally by the British Horse Society .
2 Now that interest rates are at historically low levels , considerable sums of money are moving out of the banks and building societies into equity based investments , the equity message seems to be getting home .
3 The arrows in the drawing are moving back from the boundary of the information field to the centre .
4 They 're occupying themselves writing out an account of their movements since Lorrimer was last seen alive and the local force are getting on with the preliminary checking of alibis .
5 The gardens outside my window are bowing down to the heat of the afternoon , but my mind is racing in this stillness , like a dust devil on the apparently windless plains .
6 ‘ Other members of the herd are swimming around in the blood-red sea as this killing continues .
7 Minutes later , Corporal Bromby and his crew are loading up in the Alberta sunshine .
8 Well , as usual it 's all there in the papers that Mr has prepared for us if anybody cares to read them , and you will notice , the national non-domestic rate , the business rate as it 's known , the contribution that the government are passing on from the business rates paid in Wiltshire , back to the people of Wiltshire is dropping by seven point nine million pounds , it 's being cut from a hundred and eighteen point six to a hundred and nine point three million pounds , and again this is pound for pound .
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