Example sentences of "are [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we are using up to five times the energy that we really need to move , then it is hardly surprising that , after a long day , all we can do is ‘ collapse in a heap ’ ! |
| 2 | Large numbers of British birds are nesting up to 22 days earlier than normal , possibly reflecting changes in climate as a result of global warming , according to a report by the British Trust for Ornithology . |
| 3 | are walking round with flared trousers and things ! |
| 4 | ‘ Got to observe strict ARP , you see , Miss , though here we are gettin' on for five months of war and not a peep out of a Jerry plane . |
| 5 | ALL-GIRL band L7 are teaming up with wild rockers Nirvana in a bid to promote women 's rights . |
| 6 | He warned the Conservatives and Labour that ‘ from the ancient bastion of liberalism , the flames are fanning out in all directions , consuming your shabby campaigns , your out-of-date policies , your visions of the future ’ . |
| 7 | Secondly , you are looking out for minor defects which will cost you time and money — plumbing , heating redecoration , bathroom and kitchen fittings , replacement windows , floor finishes , insulation etc . |
| 8 | Where achieving cultures are growing out of traditional ones there will inevitably be tension between the two , and the occasional conflicts will affect marketing development and growth . |
| 9 | Jack and Richard Hannon keep on banging in the winners while others are rushing about like headless chickens in the belief that the sky is falling down . |
| 10 | Most brides prefer the over-all tan provided by the sunbed and this is particularly good if the couple are nipping off to sunny climes for their reception . |
| 11 | Many are pulling back from international markets . |
| 12 | Many current debates about the future of medical education are going on among small groups of specialists , with no input from the vast majority of people who do the actual teaching . |
| 13 | If you are going up to senior positions movement is essential ; even people who may plateau out at middle management will have done a lot of different jobs for three , four , five years . |
| 14 | easy when you 're working with figures that are going up in regular steps and they all go up in regular steps and they all go up in regular steps and the next one does n't . |
| 15 | They are going along at vast speeds , and I say vast speeds , they 're twenty miles an hour over the grass and you can imagine how much they 're cutting . |
| 16 | Just another form of the takeaway service some blacks are going in for these days . |
| 17 | The economic seesaw has hit the ground with a bone-juddering thud yet again — jobs are flying off in all directions as redundancies explode , industries contract and small businesses collapse . |
| 18 | ‘ Now that we are getting back to realistic prices and trading performance can justify capital costs , it makes more sense to invest , ’ he said . |
| 19 | The point of issue is that estuary and coastal zone management is a reality and what seems to be happening is all sorts of different plans are popping up on various estuaries and Geoff knows them well now because he 's been involved with the one on the Stour and Orwell and what is happening is that these are starting at local level so the first contact with sailors may be from a local authority or someone at local level . |
| 20 | The Empire is crumbling into civil war , Daemons are popping up on all sides , and who 's to say that the Great Enchanter does n't have a hand in it somewhere ? |
| 21 | It has also led me to think along the lines of who needs to work habitation sites when finds like this are popping up in random places ? |
| 22 | Things are hotting up in local classrooms |
| 23 | They are running out of rude things to say about each other , or new things to say about the NHS . |
| 24 | Perhaps the TECs are coming up with new ideas about the sort of training that should be developed . |
| 25 | All of a sudden as they like to do in Birmingham station , all the trains are coming in on different platforms from usual and and er delays here and do you know what it was ? |
| 26 | There a new realism and prices are coming down to sensible levels . |
| 27 | Waiting times are coming down in most places and staff report improved management and job satisfaction . |
| 28 | And so it goes on through life ; always a struggle between wanting to hold on to what we have at the same time as we are reaching out for new joys and satisfactions ; always the dilemma of making choices , of greedily wanting everything , of resenting having to let anything go . |
| 29 | I believe we are sailing out of troubled waters now . |
| 30 | An article in a recent issue of the British Medical Journal , pointed out that babies in fluoridated areas who drink dried milk formulae made up with water containing 1 ppm fluoride , are ingesting up to 100 times the amount of fluoride they would obtain from mother 's milk ( vol 283. p 76 ) . |