Example sentences of "the [noun sg] are [v-ing] [prep] [art] " 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 | Detectives working on the case are working on the theory that they died of hypothermia or suffocation or a combination of both . |
| 3 | On the contrary , all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe . |
| 4 | Postgraduate students who are currently undertaking research in the department are working in the following areas : Modern German Literature and Film , ‘ Wiener Moderne ’ , GDR Literature and Society . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Now the club are looking for a player of your capabilities . |
| 7 | Miss Bangholm reports that members of the club are hanging around the hall as girls are leaving and some of them are rather afraid . |
| 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 | It is half past three of the afternoon and already the houses across the burn are fading into a sodden gloom . |
| 10 | Influenced by the work of G.K. Gilbert , Hack argued that the concept of dynamic equilibrium provides a more reasonable basis for the interpretation of topographic forms in an erosionally graded landscape , that every slope and stream channel in an erosional system is adjusted to every other , and when the topography is in equilibrium and erosional energy remains the same , all elements of the topography are downwasting at the same rate . |
| 11 | Really we still know very little about what teachers actually do in the classroom and it 's all very well standing back in university and saying teachers should do this and should do that , but in order to be able to offer guidance I think we really need to do more research in mixed ability classrooms to discover how teachers at the moment are dealing with the situation and where we might offer them more support , and that 's the direction I 'd like to see research going ; rather than more of the grandiose large-scale quantitative studies , which collect lots of figures and statistics , I 'd like to see a lot more studies in actual classrooms looking at actual teachers teaching , looking at what they do and how we can improve that . |
| 12 | At the official launch on Monday , Mr Heseltine said : ‘ Along with the major initiatives , the local councils , organisations such as the Wildlife Trust and the community are working towards a new environment . |
| 13 | All right , the team are going through a temporary loss of form and that is not what you pay to see but , remember , football is a business not an entertainment . |
| 14 | ‘ Surplus stock is now being used to clear any backlogs in the orders , and the circle are working with the legal department to incorporate their solution into a company policy on the problem . ’ |
| 15 | And she 's saying , what the heck are doing outside the cinema , he goes I 've been invited to come with you you lot . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The rest are hauling at the crowbars that wind down the press , hobnails gritting on the frosty concrete . |
| 18 | But politicians north and south of the border are calling for the Republic 's Government to start a High Court inquiry into Ross ' alleged links with firms in Eire . |
| 19 | Meanwhile many secondary schools north of the Border are opting for a cheaper option , the Scottish Computerised School Administration Programme , or SCAMP . |
| 20 | If an application is declared admissible , and a friendly settlement can not be achieved , the subsequent decisions of the Court are binding on the United Kingdom . |
| 21 | Tiki Kyte in the front and Angie Butler at the back are putting in the miles around the country lanes of Oxfordshire . |
| 22 | Barat and Haimet are two brothers , who at the start of the tale are passing through a forest with a companion called Travers . |
| 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 | These photographs show for the first time the lives of people who , in the spirit of the age are changing from a silent minority into a rebellious one . |
| 25 | The ECMT recognises that past policies and actions on transport and the environment are running behind the debate , and that future transport policies should be forced to consider environmental matters . |
| 26 | The Government are getting into an absurd position and they should recognise that . |
| 27 | When it is obvious that the other 11 Governments are prepared to accept the draft before them at Maastricht today and that this Government are not , the Government are confessing to a unique combination of political prejudice and economic weakness which marks them out from the rest of the Community and which marks Britain down in the Community . |
| 28 | When the Chancellor next visits the Duchy of Lancaster , will he kindly explain why the Government are cheating on the RECHAR money and thus depriving the coalfields of Lancashire and Yorkshire of funds that are rightly theirs ? |
| 29 | What the Government are doing about the inspectorate is extremely foolish and flies in the face of its proud history . |
| 30 | In the final category , both parties to the transaction are acting in the course of business , and are presumably able to take care of themselves . |