Example sentences of "are [v-ing] [prep] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | this explains why Golding 's choice of ending , rescue , is not anti-climatic as the choristers and schoolboys are returning to the same situation back in the outside world . |
| 2 | EXTERNAL VERIFICATION is the process by which SCOTVEC ensures that , on a national basis , centres are operating to the same standard . |
| 3 | After all , we are looking for the same thing . ’ |
| 4 | So contrasting is it that one may wonder whether its adherents are looking at the same thing at all : ‘ As the eighties unfold , humanity faces a worldwide shortage of productive cropland , acute land hunger in many countries , escalating prices for farmland almost everywhere … ’ |
| 5 | For example , if the adult holds an object , such as a doll , in the child 's line of gaze , the child is likely to look at the object and then immediately glance at the adult 's face to check that they are looking at the same thing . |
| 6 | Here we are looking at the same argument using the energy input in absolute terms . |
| 7 | Whenever you find an A.sessilis or A. reineckii you are looking at the same plant : A. rosaefolia . |
| 8 | They are living in the same house , eating at the same table , and , in the case of Lizzie , part of my own being . |
| 9 | The OR Staff are quite rightly intent on seeking battle-winning performance ; the scientists and technologists enjoy and rise to the challenge ; and so both the principal groups of participants in equipment development are pushing in the same direction without an effective countervailing force . |
| 10 | It is quite possible that the economy may converge to a steady state not characterized by equilibrium , e.g. , where capital and the labour force are growing at the same rate , but there is a constant level of unemployment . |
| 11 | Compared to the experience of hearing music ‘ live ’ even under unfavourable circumstances there is often very little sense that the musicians are pulling in the same direction , or that the music ebbs and flows in a natural , organic or above all believable way . |
| 12 | But these are not organised , structured animal societies — they are abnormal explosions of the locust population and they carry with them the seeds of their own downfall , as do modern human populations that are heading in the same direction . |
| 13 | It is quite obvious that if all of you are going for the same niche in the marketplace , as is happening increasingly at present , then it will be a highly competitive situation where you will have to rely even more than usual on the superiority of your own skills or technology to bring you through . |
| 14 | Meeting people who are going through the same experience will help you out of your depression . |
| 15 | ‘ The reason I publicize it so much is that other people are going through the same sort of problems with families . |
| 16 | ‘ Should you see a lady that you know , carrying a basket , and you are going in the same direction , offer to carry it for her . ’ |
| 17 | Good manners demanding it , Luce made the formal introduction , adding perforce , ‘ Mr and Mrs Cook are staying in the same hotel . ’ |
| 18 | Other international companies are moving in the same direction and many , like ICI and BP , are firmly committed in principle to community regeneration . |
| 19 | They are none the less important , for other industries are moving in the same direction . |
| 20 | Revisiting the site at intervals ( of at least a week ) note whether the marked animals are feeding on the same prey or not . |
| 21 | Though all are feeding from the same source , and to some degree feed on whatever is most plentiful , competition is minimized by selective feeding ; Croxall and Lishman ( 1987 ) and Prince and Morgan ( 1987 ) summarize methods of feeding respectively among penguins and petrels in southern waters . |
| 22 | When charged particles are travelling at the same velocity , and are subject to the same magnetic field , the heavier particles are deflected the least . |
| 23 | They can distinguish between two sounds which are only 18 inches apart at a distance of 60 feet ; they can separate with ease two sounds that are coming from the same direction , but at different distances ; and they can differentiate two sounds that have only a half-tone of difference between them . |
| 24 | A female Canadian relative of mine says they are suffering in the same way . |
| 25 | First decide whether you wish to make a portrait or landscape design , and check that the card will stand up properly if you are opting for the latter shape . |
| 26 | Once again , it would seem clear that we are dealing with the same individual , whose militant nationalism it was deemed expedient to conceal . |
| 27 | Even where the name is recorded early on , however , we can not be sure that we are dealing with the same site , bearing in mind the movement implied above . |
| 28 | Arafat met frequently with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad in the run-up to the expiry of the Jan. 15 deadline , and reaffirmed on Jan. 14 that " Palestine and Iraq are standing in the same trench to regain Arab rights " . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It is assumed that within a single erosional system all elements of the topography are mutually adjusted so that they are downwasting at the same rate . |