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 . |