Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ch'noze are raiding further east than usual this year . ’ |
| 2 | The revival in borrowing was concentrated on credit cards , suggesting that consumers are stepping up purchases of everyday items but are still reluctant to take on debt to finance household durables and cars . |
| 3 | POLICE are stepping up patrols on Wrexham industrial estate after a spate of factory break-ins in which office equipment and other property was stolen . |
| 4 | NORTH Wales Police are stepping up patrols of flood areas in a bid to ward off looters . |
| 5 | Scientists are stepping up tests to find the source of dioxin contamination which has brought financial ruin to two farmers . |
| 6 | AIRLINES are stepping up safety checks on Boeing 747s following last month 's Amsterdam air crash . |
| 7 | In the UK , GaAs-based computer chips are now being marketed , and UK manufacturers are stepping up production of GaAs materials . |
| 8 | Gulf oil states are stepping up production of a " green " petrol additive in an effort to meet the requirements of the US Clean Air Act , which demands higher levels of oxygen in petrol . |
| 9 | Then you are building up evidence . |
| 10 | We are building up problems for ourselves . |
| 11 | Despite the persistence of huge environmental problems , Western donors and lending institutions are financing only projects that give a good return on investment and are expecting Eastern European countries to pay for much of the clean-up themselves . |
| 12 | Concern that this uncontrolled expansion of the private sector had been siphoning off funds that might have been more cost effectively used in home based community care led to the government commissioning reviews of resource management and quality of care . |
| 13 | Unless you are prepared to pursue your legal action with a reasonable amount of vigour , you will find that you are wasting both time and money . |
| 14 | West Country Living : More chain store links John Dudman on how the supermarkets are branching out west |
| 15 | … You are seeing where pollution is and you are policing . |
| 16 | Erm , so you would leave what I call this deadwood lying on your spreadsheet , cells that are using up memory , they 're not needed any more erm , on many people 's spreadsheets I 've discovered quite a lot of deadwood using up large amounts of memory , like in some people 's cases two-thirds of the memory used by the deadwood . |
| 17 | And as a spokeswoman from Relate points out , ‘ If you are always rowing , you are using up time you could spend having fun together . ’ |
| 18 | As yet you are using only variations of the first fifty millesimal potency with which you began , and this way you derive the maximum benefit from each potency in turn . |
| 19 | The big step is then getting the rest of the Council to take it on board , that 's the big step , you know , leisure , the neighbourhood office 's , I mean the neighbourhood office 's are quite good , I mean they 've got a , they 've got a budget , a development budget , and like in Katherines and Sumners I know that a large proportion of the development budget there went on projects for young people , you know , so there are using there money . |
| 20 | I know that , I know that erm , the existing committee are drawing up proposals for their refurbishment of the place , erm , obviously to look for , for help towards it . |
| 21 | But interest in the work is running high , and Russian and Chinese teams have established contact with the Greeks and are drawing up plans to establish their own networks . |
| 22 | The Premiership outfit , who have already built three new stands in the past 15 years , are drawing up plans to replace the old south stand which was built in the 1930s . |
| 23 | As the Republic seems set to qualify for America , they are drawing up plans for the biggest television sports blockbuster ever . |
| 24 | The Law Society and the BSI are drawing up plans which would allow firms of solicitors to apply for a kitemark . |
| 25 | In addition , lenders are drawing up mortgage rescue schemes , and are also examining ways of easing the terms of repayment to help people to stay in their homes . |
| 26 | A group of health authority staff , council officers and community workers are drawing up guidelines to help cut accidents by a third by the year 2000 . |
| 27 | They have been building up balances in their current account for some four months . |
| 28 | The considerable scope for destocking — the main cause of the recession of the early 1980s — was highlighted by the CSO , which said industry had been building up inventories of unsold goods for two years . |
| 29 | But the ladies from the village who are helping out look curiously at him , and call him sir when they rescue the spoons he is sitting on . |
| 30 | ‘ We are targeting mainly Europe , North America and the Far East . ’ |