Example sentences of "[pron] are [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week I read an article about four successful divorce solicitors , two of whom are representing the Yorks in their divorce . |
| 2 | Jones is second … a russian third … and then there 's a procession of local runners some of whom are feeling the pace … |
| 3 | In today 's Washington , where ideology is a murmur of distant guns but technocrats have not quite recovered their old authority , the think-tanks seem at a loss ; many of them are cutting the size of their staffs . |
| 4 | So those who try to dismiss Jesus as being a good teacher , a religious leader , a prophet and no more — all of them are missing the truth . |
| 5 | These questions are being asked now not just by political theorists , although some of them are giving the most considered answers . |
| 6 | Which of them are offering the best value ? |
| 7 | Dorothy Best , secretary of Durham County Schools AA , said : ‘ Cumbria and ourselves are staging the county championships on the recommended date but unfortunately Cleveland and Northumberland have held theirs a week earlier . |
| 8 | ‘ For your information , those ‘ poor little girls ’ of yours are having the time of their lives playing tag around our office . |
| 9 | Most of Eurotunnel 's shares are held and traded on the Paris market these days and there is fear that the company will end up issuing shares as full or part payment to Transmanche Link , the group of 10 contractors which are building the tunnel . |
| 10 | This school of thought emerges from the low numbers of cichlid fry which are found in the mouths of cichlids which are incubating the Synodontis . |
| 11 | Japanese corporations which are financing the felling of virgin Chilean forest for the wood chip industry are running into growing opposition from the country 's environmental movement — and from its state forestry concern . |
| 12 | However , new research is confined to three studies , two of which are considering the question of protective clothing . |
| 13 | If we are prepared to participate in a European bank for reconstruction and development to help countries in eastern Europe which are facing the same problems as Britain 's defence industry workers , could we not at least set up a defence diversification agency to help the tens of thousands of workers in the north-west and throughout the United Kingdom who will be thrown on to the scrap heap ? |
| 14 | Erm , and I think Economic Development are actually contributing very fairly to the problems which are facing the County Council . |
| 15 | It may have become apparent to the counsellor that counsellees are ‘ locked ’ into feelings which are affecting the way they are leading their lives , but are apparently more content to hold on to the feelings than to resolve the difficulties which arise from them . |
| 16 | They have the greatest reproductive success and in terms of Darwinian evolution it is Third World rapidly expanding populations which are enjoying the highest levels of reproductive success . |
| 17 | Participation by developing nations which are expanding the use of gill-nets in their coastal waters will be a key feature of the workshop , scheduled for October 1990 . |
| 18 | Some youngish trees which are damaging the bridge have been removed and others are still to be removed . |
| 19 | Is it not ironic that the company executive driving the Jaguar which I overtake in every traffic jam , is being subsidised by the government to produce the fumes which are damaging the health of every individual , cyclists , pedestrians , motorists themselves , not to mention the ecological damage ? |
| 20 | The report , compiled by NUPE , NALGO and COHSE , which are forming the new union UNISON , is based on a survey of 1,200 local authority home helps in England , Scotland , and Wales . |
| 21 | Because of this , foreign currency mortgages , which are being sold very heavily at the moment by financial intermediaries ( linked to banks and other financial institutions which are providing the funds ) , are only for the financially sophisticated . |
| 22 | Paper mills in Britain which are breaking the law by discharging more effluent into rivers than permitted are nearly all escaping prosecution , according to a report published by the Women 's Environmental Network , an independent pressure group . |
| 23 | these are the areas which are reaching the final stages of the demographic cycle in which , as a result of migration of the child-bearing age-groups , the residual population is unable to maintain , let alone increase , its own level by means of natural growth . |
| 24 | That 's why I am afraid of these hysterical demands which are dominating the discussion in our press and among those who want radical economic reform all at once . |
| 25 | ‘ As I finished selecting these 200-odd titles which reflect the continuing excellence of writing for children , a document was leaked which made it clear that the authorities which are controlling the education of the next generation had , at a stroke , obliterated the ‘ golden age ’ of children 's literature — at least as far as reading in schools is concerned . |
| 26 | This is one of seven research projects sponsored by the Kings ' Fund Institute which are monitoring the reforms over a three-year period . |
| 27 | Wandsworth joins five other stores : Wakefield , Northampton , Catford , Bath and Willesden , which are trialling the uniform until August . |
| 28 | He would also learn about a series of problems , the main one of which is the unfair subsidies to ship building companies in the European Community which are handicapping the British ship building industry in terms of merchant shipping orders . |
| 29 | The influences which are changing the practice of hearing children read come from several sources , but probably the most important is the effect of psycholinguistics , leading to a changed concept of the reading process . |
| 30 | However , I would not for one moment deny the continuity and the gradualness of the processes which are changing the earth . |