Example sentences of "[noun sg] are [v-ing] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the Board are entering into a Scheme for adult education in co-operation with the LEA in Cambridgeshire much in the same way ( as ) had been done in Bedfordshire it seems as if it might be best for the Board to be recognised as the Responsible Body for this type of course . |
| 2 | ACT Financial Systems Ltd and Hewlett-Packard Co are working on a Unix version of ACT 's Digital Equipment Corp VMS-based credit risk analysis system , Limits . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Now the club are looking for a player of your capabilities . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ All we have been told is that there will be a profit of £7,000-a-year but similar facilities in the North-East are running at a loss . ’ |
| 7 | you know er all the blokes at work are going on a rave in Newcastle this weekend . |
| 8 | He says that the council are looking at a number of options , the pool is being considered because it 's very costly to run . |
| 9 | Yet the 1986 figures from the Department of Health and Social Security suggest that almost 9 million , a sixth of the total British population are living on a wage which is on or below the SB poverty line . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | While Nottingham Forest are aiming for a record fifth League Cup success , it remains the one domestic trophy United have never won . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A car factory and its surrounding community are featuring in a play being performed at one of the region 's theatres . |
| 14 | the car shown in the schedule which belongs to you , is leased by you or which you or your wife or husband are buying under a hire purchase agreement |
| 15 | the car shown in the schedule which belongs to you , is leased by you or which you or your wife or husband are buying under a hire purchase agreement |
| 16 | the car shown in the schedule which belongs to you , is leased by you or which you or your wife or husband are buying under a hire purchase agreement |
| 17 | the car shown in the schedule which belongs to you , is leased by you or which you or your wife or husband are buying under a hire purchase agreement |
| 18 | Allowed to choose for themselves under feral conditions , nearly all offspring arrive at a time when nutritional inputs to the dam are rising to a maximum , ie optimum grass growth . |
| 19 | The line of a jaw , the curve of a breast , the way the hair falls just so : as well as this potent mix of stored physical ideals — what Simonde de Beauvoir called ‘ incandescence ’ — you are , like it or not , influenced by fundamental programming which dictates that , while the ‘ higher ’ processes of your mind dicker around in a gadfly twentieth-century way , the areas of the brain that control instinctive behaviour are looking for a mate , a woman of energy and physical alertness : a good breeder . |
| 20 | WINIFRED Rooney , who has run the tea bar at Alton magistrates ' court for 14 years , is retiring and the local branch of the Women 's Royal Voluntary Service are looking for a replacement . |
| 21 | GROUPS FROM the churches in every parliamentary constituency are preparing for a lobby of MPs , in support of the homeless and poorly housed . |
| 22 | A common or garden dispute : Peter Dunn and his beech hedge are maturing after a boundary battle |
| 23 | They promptly chucked her out of the bed and breakfast hotel and she and the baby are sleeping on a relative 's floor . |
| 24 | Barat and Haimet are two brothers , who at the start of the tale are passing through a forest with a companion called Travers . |
| 25 | His ISA concept implies that the populations of the capitalist state are living under a dictatorship , a bourgeois dictatorship . |
| 26 | Curiously , there are few parallels for this , a natural enough way of making an opera , when the librettist and composer are dealing with a narrative not already shaped into theatrical scenes . |
| 27 | Downstairs , the widely-recommended Best Kissers In The World are rocking through a set of , well , consummate rockiness , to be honest . |
| 28 | STAFF at the European Space Agency are heading for a clash with officials from several member-countries who want to cut their salaries . |
| 29 | Fish-eating birds are being destroyed to reduce competition for fish stocks , whilst many ground birds such as the corncrake and bustard are declining as a result of major changes in agriculture . |
| 30 | The Regimental Sergeant Major , responsible for co-ordinating sporting activity in addition to his normal duty , reports that a number of soldiers from the regiment are going on a sailing course . |