Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The employees are accepting their fate with the usual mix of bitterness and resignation . |
| 2 | To get power , you are using your power against the power that the opponent gives to you . |
| 3 | Groups in our society such as Friends of the Earth , Greenpeace and the Green party are to be congratulated for the energetic way they are drawing our attention to the issues involved . |
| 4 | The earliest the matter can be raised again is in January when the new Congress returns , and although if the benefit is reintroduced it may well be retroactive to1 January , potential donors are biding their time for the moment . |
| 5 | Just as I am drawing his attention to the point and beginning what I know will be a long and wearying discussion , Mirsal , who has been fighting the cabman about his fare outside , appears and lets loose such a torrent of thumbnail word portraits of the clerk 's family that , used as I am to his powers in this respect , I am struck dumb with admiration . |
| 6 | I 've just realised that as we talk , we are hanging our show on the miners and that there is not one image by a woman . |
| 7 | With some clients , such as Nissan , Nuclear Electric , Volkswagon Audi and Flight Refuelling , we are auditing our performance in the catering and facilities operations directly with our clients , resulting in true contract partnership . ’ |
| 8 | I am helping my Pa with the outdoor work , as is right and proper . |
| 9 | But in promoting it to MPs we 've been drawing their attention to the kinds of organizations which in turn in their eyes just sort of represent that pyramid or structure of votes that . |
| 10 | Theo had been confiding his disappointment with the way his life was turning out , and Vincent quickly swept in with an indictment : ‘ It seems to me that the whole art business is rotten . ’ |
| 11 | Trish , who has been representing her country for the last twelve years with such good horses as Manifesto and Michelangelo , only allows her horses to compete on decent surfaces . |
| 12 | Writers and actors have been pledging their support at the start of National Library Week . |
| 13 | A coalman , Mr Martin Phipps , had been driving his lorry along the downs at Chartham at 7.25am on Tuesday when he noticed a Jaguar XJS parked in a chalkpit , said PC Burden . |
| 14 | It is a warm Saturday towards the end of the 1989–90 season , leagues are being decided , the unfortunates are being relegated and Scotland 's itinerant football fans are weaving their way to the citadels of Brechin , Forfar , and Cowdenbeath . |
| 15 | Monitoring rivals closely to copy good ideas and ensure that they are keeping their service in the forefront of developments |
| 16 | Ms Siobhan Fahey ( see below ) has been explaining her emigration to the south of France . |
| 17 | How have you been justifying your existence in the last twenty-four hours and can you name the guilty man ? ’ |
| 18 | It seems clear that the USSR , like many developing countries , has been revising its opinion about the nature of what bargaining with firms entails . |
| 19 | He could have been warning his receptionist off the line or switching off — or on — a recording device . |
| 20 | Market forces are pushing their way into the whole arena of debt servicing and conditions of grant aid so that the international rhetoric is moving away from comprehensive Primary Health Care to ‘ cost recovery ’ . |
| 21 | For weeks prior to this , provincial and national newspapers had been expressing their outrage at the title of the album . |
| 22 | ‘ Is that why you 're hanging your washing on the Siegfried Line ? ’ |
| 23 | Blot : In earlier films , you 've suggested that female sexuality and capitalist codes of production are intertwined ; with this new film you 're turning your attention to the position of blacks in our society . |
| 24 | Next we 're turning our attention to the more difficult issue of whether any common approach can be adopted . |
| 25 | Can I just ask why you 're ignoring us lot on the ground floor ? |
| 26 | They 're breaking their part of the contract now . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're having your lamp on the 8th of January . ’ |
| 28 | I think they like to hold that position that they 're doing their bit for the school . |
| 29 | " Thank God something does You 're taking your time over the Gutteridge case . |
| 30 | ‘ He wants you , not Sammy or anyone else , and if you wo n't do it , then you 're not just putting Ellen 's money at risk , but you 're putting my commission on the line too , and I might not like that . ’ |