Example sentences of "are [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NEW Yorkers are stepping out to weird Foot Friend parties to meet the partner of their dreams . |
| 2 | I would like to announce that from now certain major sponsorship opportunities are opening up on this page . |
| 3 | CYCLING organisations in Wales are gearing up for National Bike Week , which begins on Saturday . |
| 4 | Today , more than 100 million Europeans are gearing up for this winter 's invasion of the ski-slopes . |
| 5 | This applies also to the British Council , our arm of cultural diplomacy , which is facing unprecedented demands from the newly liberated countries which are looking out for English language teachers . |
| 6 | My map-reading skill comes from many years using the OS ‘ 1 inch = 1 mile ’ maps in club , national and international motor rallies , where you are bouncing along at high speed , often at night , in poor conditions . |
| 7 | This may be partly because there are many pigs , who are a match for the boys , and partly because the boys are acting out of reasonable necessity , and not immature impulsiveness . |
| 8 | Beginning with the industrial and commercial sector ( in Figure 1.2 we simply call this sector ‘ firms ’ ) , these firms are paying out in each period ( a year ) £13,500 million which is largely wages and salaries to employees . |
| 9 | As Christmas approaches goods like these are turning up at one day sales , car boot sales and market stalls . |
| 10 | ‘ It depends what kind of scenarios are going on on each floor and in each room of the tower block , ’ ponders The One Who Does n't Object To Wearing ( Hopefully Fake ) Fur Coats . |
| 11 | But we know are going on to double shift on Monday |
| 12 | ‘ Things are going on at this school , ’ went on Dr Ali , in a whisper , ‘ of which it is difficult for a good Muslim to approve . ’ |
| 13 | the local communities have been ignored in these issues and these discussions that are going on between British Coal and the County Council . |
| 14 | I get clues as to how a particular family organises its life , whether the room is a room for the whole family or a , a room that 's perhaps excludes children or a room that 's for best , that kind of which not only tells you something about that particular family but , when you 've seen enough homes , tells you about general patterns that are going on in social life . |
| 15 | It 's us and people out there , there is still people out there sighing and crying and groaning under the detestable things that are going on in this world , I 've no doubt you 've met many , but , when they say I do n't know what the world 's coming to , well if you know what 's in your magazines and then your literature and the reasoning book , all these lovely provisions , because you 've devoured it , you 've eaten it like that scroll that John was given , it was sweet to him was n't it ? |
| 16 | More and more of the farms are going over to pasteurized milk , their produce is sent to the cooperatives , the butter and the cheese no longer have the characteristic ripe flavours one used to expect . |
| 17 | Medical supplies are going in from this country not only to help Moscow and St. Petersburg , but to go as far as Ekaterinburg , Tymen , Novokuznetsk , the Kiev oblast , the Donetsk oblast , and further afield . |
| 18 | ‘ It is not for us because we are going out of this business . |
| 19 | Perfect or absolute Truth , which is known by faith , is beyond our empirical grasp which means that we must act in the knowledge that we are holding on to such truth as we are able to apprehend in this world . |
| 20 | MORE teenagers are staying on in further education in County Durham . |
| 21 | Poor people of the region , particularly women , are speaking out against this injustice and organising basic health care in their communities . |
| 22 | Twenty-eight per cent — nearly one in three — of primary schools in the study are shaving up to one hour a week off teaching time . |
| 23 | ‘ The selectors are taking a great interest in Irish golf simply because the better players are coming out of this island . |
| 24 | And those forget me nots that 're called blue ball and are supposed to have brilliant blue flowers are coming out with tiny pinky purple flowers . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , local police are clamping down on high-tech crime . |
| 26 | Neither parents nor politicians are crying out for radical reform of the system . |
| 27 | Elsewhere , however , Everton are crying out for new talent . |
| 28 | Hunters are cashing in on this shortage and expense of whale meat , and are providing the Japanese market with a more affordable substitute of dolphin flesh . |
| 29 | as colleagues who are involved will know is just about the only industry in the building materials sector that has n't made some kind of pay offer in this current round it 's very much bringing up the rear and we 're determined to use what industrial strength we have to change the employer 's stance otherwise we 're very concerned that the national negotiation missionary , this will be his death knell since we 'll have to resort to local pay bargaining , so the short answer is E C C er , will be balloted as far as the G M B is concerned union and , er , T & G are balloting in for industrial action to try to change the employers ' position . |
| 30 | I believe they are standing up to this tour well . |