Example sentences of "are [v-ing] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills so eloquently pointed out , we are seeing exactly the same thing with this tax . |
| 2 | By the same token they are producing just the right level of output , . |
| 3 | The deep divisions which exist between people and the dreadful atrocities in so many parts of our world , the ethnic hatred , religious fanaticism , and racial strife are tearing apart the human family . |
| 4 | Customers are snapping up the top quality magazine with its wonderful photography and editorial . |
| 5 | They are hiring just the right number of workers , , that the calculus of profit maximization dictates . |
| 6 | On the plus side , the arrival of VAT on domestic supplies should encourage people to think about saving energy in the home , thereby reducing the demand on coal , oil and gas and , therefore , cutting emissions of carbon dioxide ( CO ) which are pushing up the global temperature . |
| 7 | The groups are urging both the Scottish Office and Department of the Environment to match their offer . |
| 8 | Finally , if you are wondering where the new Ogwen guidebook has gone , so is the guidebook team ! |
| 9 | More designers are going down the locking tuner route and it 's something which I personally welcome ; it does away with that lumpiness at the nut end of the fingerboard and offers up a more traditional look into the bargain . |
| 10 | track , because it it , no other transport business er has er does has to have a business , which op owns both the track it 's operating on and the operating er facilities themselves , so the we 're not doing anything new here , what we are actually doing , and incidentally the German government and other governments are going down the same route now because it 's not true to say that others are n't privatizing , what we 're doing is saying that we are having a separate track authority , and there are a variety of reasons for that , er but the an and that means actually less investment by the franchisee himself , but he will have control over the th the track operations , because he will have a contract , with Rail Track , to deliver certain services , and if Rail Track does n't deliver them then he 's able to claim penalties so |
| 11 | I think the way things are going now the Black people in South Africa are treated much better than they were before , but they used to be treated terribly , and after all it was their country . |
| 12 | So but there it 's it 's a very interesting point there because a lot of our young boys now the Dow Holland Alan Munroes are riding more the American style . |
| 13 | But you , only you I am afraid , yes , only you out of everyone here , are holding back the entire production . |
| 14 | At lunchtime the following day , Tuesday , February 12 , the police are breaking down the new lock which Tommy has attached to Christopher 's purple front door . |
| 15 | Some of the villages on the edge of the Baronnies look all too spruce , as if the locals had by now given way completely to immigrants wealthier than themselves , who are buying up the old houses and adding new , sometimes crassly intrusive ones . |
| 16 | They are screwing up the whole economy , not just housing . |
| 17 | No wear erm wear yeah wear a tight dress and once you get in there so many other people are wearing exactly the same thing |
| 18 | While the BARB meters can record whether the VCR or an on-air programme is being watched , there is no way of telling whether people watching a time-shifted programme are cutting out the commercial breaks — or , indeed , what programme they are watching . |
| 19 | ‘ His people are justifiably condemning Riddick Bowe for flouting the rules , but they are doing exactly the same thing . ’ |
| 20 | In their different ways , Hanson and ICI are doing much the same thing : running a portfolio of businesses . |
| 21 | We are saying much the same thing when we derive the antithesis between sexuality and civilization from the circumstance that sexual love is a relationship between two individuals in which a third can only be superfluous or disturbing , whereas civilization depends on relationships between a considerable number of individuals . |
| 22 | We have demonstrated against petty apartheid because we are taking on the entire system of apartheid on all fronts . |
| 23 | Trees are preparing for winter and their leaves are taking on the beautiful colours of autumn . |
| 24 | The rise in oil prices towards $19 a barrel yesterday indicated that some traders are taking seriously the latest efforts by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries to trim output in an attempt to achieve a target level of at least $21 a barrel . |
| 25 | The male adult koel also mimics the plumage of its hosts : the crows are vigorously territorial and while they are chasing away the intruding male , the female koel can sneak in and lay her egg . |
| 26 | We looked through the files to see how the big men at the top are sizing up the hard decisions in a man 's life |
| 27 | We are witnessing only the latest episode in that long history , in which geography itself has been remade , and the landscape , now more than ever , is transformed not so much by the efforts of individuals , as by public policy and the stroke of a pen . |
| 28 | More interested in the style than the fashion , Huggy Bear are carrying on the feminist tradition of punk bands like The Slits and X-Ray Spex with all the musicality of Pete Duel & The Shit or Alien Sex Fiend . |
| 29 | Therefore , if such a cynical interpretation of the motivation of those committed professionals who are carrying forward the first wave of trusts were to apply , it would be irrelevant because the resources are ring fenced by the region and the trusts would be at no disadvantage . |
| 30 | That cynical interpretation of the commitment of all those dedicated professionals who are carrying forward the first wave of trusts is so bitterly resented by the health service , which is why the Labour party has lost all credibility with the health professionals . |