Example sentences of "are [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 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 .
6 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 . ’
7 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 .
8 Monitoring rivals closely to copy good ideas and ensure that they are keeping their service in the forefront of developments
9 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 ’ .
10 Over in Nottinghamshire , Hucknall Town are marking their elevation to the Central Midlands League by producing a programme that would put many full-time clubs to shame .
11 The stated reason for doing so is that an increasing number of cardholders are paying their bill at the end of each month , pay nothing for the card , and are therefore being subsidised by those who do use the credit facility .
12 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 .
13 And runners like Wimpey Homes site manager Paul Hatfield are turning their attention to the 30 mile , 50km , 40/50 mile and 100km ( 62.1 mile ) distances — for fun !
14 Encouraged by the acceptability of more popular styles of composition , willing but inexperienced composers are turning their hand to the production of ‘ home-grown ’ music .
15 They say in the Hello ! magazine article that they are breaking their silence in the exclusive interview because ‘ now we have something positive to tell . ’
16 The centre has now gathered a number of signatures from other voluntary and community groups which are supporting its request to the Office of Wages Councils to reconsider the abolition of the Wages Council .
17 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 .
18 POLICE hunting a youth are linking his disappearance with the discovery of an empty grave .
19 and everybody seems to keep burying their head in the sa well when I say everybody I mean the Tech particularly are burying their head in the sand , they do n't seem to want to invest anything in preparing for , they 're called Youth Credits now are n't they ?
20 Right , this is one , this is one of the things which I am not happy about , with the way in which you are running your system at the moment , and that is that you 're being totally reactive .
21 These missiles are precisely the type of weapons that are demonstrating their effectiveness in the Gulf conflict .
22 BRAMSHOTT and Liphook parish councillors are continuing their fight in the long running battle to get something done about the notorious RUPP 45 , known also as The Hollow .
23 Meanwhile the police are continuing their investigation into the cause of the fire , which it 's thought was started deliberately .
24 And they are losing their tradition of the food that they have been getting from Eastern Europe .
25 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE , for instance , are taking their Roadshow throughout the country and also organising training camps at Aylesbury and Chinnor under Gary Pearce ; Buckinghamshire are going similarly with their training camps at Thatcham , Windsor and Reading led by Paul Rendall .
26 There is growing evidence to suggest , however , that acid deposition and ozone pollution are taking their toll on the UK environment .
27 Mina and Kāli are taking their offering for the festival to the house where the dhāmis have been dancing at night .
28 Serbs and Albanians rarely talk to each other now and are mutating their image of the opposing culture into something evil and sinister .
29 But Parents for Safe Food are lending their support to the Soil Association 's efforts to ensure that by the year 2000 , 20% of our food will be organic .
30 We take considerable heart from the knowledge that — despite the strain on educational resources — many teachers are showing their awareness of the importance of money management education to the future lives of their pupils by active efforts to integrate it into curricula .
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