Example sentences of "[noun pl] [am/are] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 More often than not , the A&R personnel are working to a brief .
2 Speaking at Barcelona 's Real Club de Polo where British riders are competing in the dressage , the Major hit back at Pound 's accusations .
3 Discussions are proceeding on the introduction of a four-year course in Mathematics which perhaps one-third of the undergraduates reading the subject would take .
4 Discussions are continuing with the artist about a second work , but Wilson , on his way to Berlin with a DAAD scholarship , told The Art Newspaper that he doubted that the funds for a new commission would be forthcoming .
5 The acquisition would not have been possible without the help of the National Heritage Museum Fund and discussions are continuing with the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland regarding a grant towards endowment costs .
6 Look for them where fairly large , heavy objects are resting on the soil , for example , under large stones , a garden roller or a log .
7 Meanwhile the eastern states are sliding towards a budget deficit of DM50 billion this year and many towns there are nearly bankrupt .
8 An SBU or divisional manager will be motivated to seek appropriate investments if he knows clearly what the generic strategy for his SBU is ( he would presumably have participated in determining it ) , is aware of what is expected of him in terms of building or maintaining competitive strengths , and knows that early-warning indicators will be set up to monitor how his investments are contributing to the improvement or maintenance of those specific strengths .
9 Nominal interest rates do count : high rates hurt , for instance , if cash flows are falling in a recession and leaving less available to service debts .
10 Continuity in marketing can count for a lot , but not if consumer attitudes are going through a sea change , and BMW 's light-footedness in launching the 3-series earned it the brand of the year award for durables .
11 Zaher el-Khatib ( Sunni , of the ‘ Marxist Bloc ’ from the Chouf ) and two other deputies are campaigning for an end to confessionalism .
12 the shareholders are acting as a group ( eg each has agreed to sell his or her shares if all the others also agree to sell ) ; and
13 Institutional shareholders are calling for a change in the trust 's management and an eventual winding up .
14 When kittens are sucking at the nipple , letting the mother know all is well .
15 Already , my fingers are picking at the edge of the pad and I have only written , ( dragged out ) 178 words , but who 's counting ?
16 This is also known as the purposive approach , since the courts are looking at the purpose for which the Act was passed .
17 The need to assess the likelihood of possible future changes in the climates of the world provides a strong reason for encouraging research on these problems , and is reinforced by the recognition that human activities are developing towards a scale from which significant effects on world climate might arise within the next century …
18 In the normally austere Hereford Breed , Journal , the owners of the Llandinabo herd claim foreign bulls are leading to the disintegration of the British Hereford by introducing alien blood .
19 Now the Moroccan authorities are holding onto the body and that 's angered Private Morrison 's Abingdon based family .
20 The majority of Tom Troubadour 's opponents are coming to the end of much busier campaigns , and the novice Merry Master may prove the main threat .
21 According to the Brazilian government 's own figures , two-thirds of the population now suffers from some degree of malnutrition and in the north-east nutritionists are talking about an epidemic of dwarfism .
22 In a high-bay warehouse , when and where the operators are working within the racking at a height above the ground , suitable means of egress should be provided , such as a ladder forming part of the equipment , inertia reels , rope , ladder , etc. to ground level and leading a clear path to escape doors .
23 In the cities , even traditionally non-commercial fuels are going on the market .
24 Some American artists are responding to the recession by creating more modestly priced works .
25 Curators and experts are counting on the exhibition devoted to the restoration in the Salle des Fetes at the Louvre until 29 March 1993 and their highly detailed catalogue describing the technical aspects of the restoration process ( Les Noces de Cana de Veronese — Une oeuvre et sa restauration , Reunion des Musées Nationaux , 1992 , FFr350 ) to refute the historical and artistic arguments .
26 EXPERTS are preparing for an event billed as the biggest controlled explosion in Europe since the Second World War — the demolition today of two multi-storey blocks of flats in Glasgow 's Gorbals .
27 The musicians are sitting in a row on the edge of the roof , facing inwards .
28 Simultaneously , calls are growing for the introduction of a new rouble backed by gold , akin to the Chervonets , a monetary unit brought in by Lenin in 1922 as part of his Economic Policy which permitted a measure of private enterprise .
29 No wonder calls are growing for the show to be put out of its misery once and for all .
30 I am delighted to see that lots of improvements are happening within the business and that people are not waiting for ‘ Felcourt ’ to make things happen — the best initiatives start in the field and are developed by enthusiastic individuals and long may this continue .
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