Example sentences of "are [verb] [pron] [noun] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , Master , we are building our arguments on the fact that there were men who looked like King James . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The club has criticised the fans for not turning up in bigger numbers to support the club but now they are turning their criticism on the manager . |
| 4 | They are turning their backs on the low paid workers . |
| 5 | The Ellis float is clearly a profitable one , but across the country fewer and fewer people are buying their milk on the doorstep , even though delivery charges average at just 52p a week . |
| 6 | Scala books are continuing their series on the contents of major museums with volumes The Boymans van Beuningen by Hanneke de Man ( £14.95 ) ; The Uffizi by Luciano Berti , Anna Maria Petrioli Tofani and Caterina Caneva ( £19.95 ) ; and The Wallraf Richartz Museum , Cologne by Rainer Budde ( £14.95 ) . |
| 7 | There is growing evidence to suggest , however , that acid deposition and ozone pollution are taking their toll on the UK environment . |
| 8 | erm I mean , it 's interesting , that 's not the only person that 's said that to me erm one of the youngsters actually said that to me last night erm sort of complaining again along the same sort of lines , and I said ‘ well hang on a minute , you know there are people actually at this moment who are putting their lives on the line and |
| 9 | ‘ They have enabled us to add a very valuable player to our squad because they are putting their money on the table . ’ |
| 10 | The fact that such grammatically incorrect combinations are frequently systematic ( Berko 1958 ; Ivimey 1975 ) suggests that children are organising their utterances on the basis of a knowledge of rules , rather than simply in response to environmental contingencies , and that such rules are , at least to some extent , generated spontaneously . |