Example sentences of "are [adv] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are overweight , but are happy with the exercises you do at least three times per week , then far be it from us to interfere — continue , you are obviously doing a good job ! |
| 2 | The Cairngorm chairlift people are obviously making a great effort to try and limit the damage caused by erosion , by constantly replanting the worn areas with grass seed . |
| 3 | are all doing a futile side-stroke . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's like a holiday camp sometimes and we are all having a good time . |
| 5 | Even if you are only seeing a few people there should be someone to greet them on arrival and make them feel they have come to the right place on the right day . |
| 6 | Shop around for a reasonable estimate , or hire a van and the services of some friends and do it yourself , it is much cheaper , and worth while if you are only moving a short distance . |
| 7 | I am sure that you are only feeling a young girl 's modest misgivings at the approach of marriage . |
| 8 | ( ii ) Contents , in the case of sensation , lack such a connection , but are in a special way qualitative and are somehow assigned a bodily location . |
| 9 | First and foremost , we are intentionally considering a limited subset of the potential causes of recent longer-term climate change . |
| 10 | Three months after they were launched , the new awards are already generating a tremendous amount of interest . |
| 11 | Trials with electronic mail are already proving a big success in the UK . |
| 12 | He 's not impressed with the Lamont-Gregory briquette which he says is not the consistency the British market expects and adds that Indonesia and Brazil are already using a similar technique . |
| 13 | DEADLY rivals Stoke and Port Vale lived to fight another day after this passionate Potteries derby , and both camps are already talking a good fight before next week 's replay . |
| 14 | Union chiefs and angry workers are already threatening a bitter Winter of Discontent , furious that they are being asked to pay the price for economic recovery . |
| 15 | really answer the first part of the Noble Lord 's question by saying that er er it is a question of future cost , er we are er we are already spending a great deal of money on the first part er of this er library and er we will have to examine the future cost very carefully and I put it to you to the Noble Lord that it would be a really sad reflection where the field of creative endeavour in which this country is m has most excelled over the centuries , in other words literature to have no single focus for celebration , preservation and active use , it really is er very important that this library continues , but may I remind Your Lordships also that we 're not talking about the s the library in this question , we 're talking about the u the site at present used by the builders . |
| 16 | ‘ I suppose you are already planning a new house , monster that you are , ’ she observed . |
| 17 | The boys , who pay themselves £100 a month , are already planning a glossy revamp for the magazine . |
| 18 | British Biotechnology from Cowley are already testing a new drug . |
| 19 | They are already playing a crucial role in multimedia design and development . |
| 20 | Both plants are already working a four-day week . |
| 21 | But the reforms are already having a big impact on the politicians , who are deeply divided about how best to deal with the social tensions the reforms are expected to produce . |
| 22 | Wakeham rejected its plea on the grounds that the market is now functioning reasonably well , and pool prices are already having a restraining influence . |
| 23 | " Oh Jim , " we can say , " we are just having a little chat about the I.R.A . " |
| 24 | If you are just starting a new job of any kind this morning , your first day , then do n't worry , it does n't matter what you do , the odds on the first two things they 'll show you is , where the toilet is , and how to load paper into the photocopier . |
| 25 | As the Lord President will be aware , visitors to Wales are always given a warm welcome and a nice cup of tea , but coachloads of my constituents visiting the Houses of Parliament are cold-shouldered and can not obtain refreshments anywhere . |
| 26 | If we are ever to achieve a magnetically-confined plasma that is kept hot enough by thermonuclear reactions , then the confinement system must contain the electrically-charged alpha particles that are produced by the fusion of deuterium and tritium . |
| 27 | In these circumstances we are usually investigating a finite population and therefore a sampling frame ( i.e. a list of population members ) may well exist . |
| 28 | If you are still using a standard radio system and only wish to execute the occasional loop or roll , then you can continue with your existing equipment , but you should realise that you are not going to be able to perform round loops or axial rolls . |
| 29 | The shares are still looking a long way ahead . |
| 30 | The total stress ( we are still considering a two-dimensional flow for which the boundary layer equations apply ) . |