Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | NORTH Wales Police are stepping up patrols of flood areas in a bid to ward off looters . |
| 4 | Scientists are stepping up tests to find the source of dioxin contamination which has brought financial ruin to two farmers . |
| 5 | AIRLINES are stepping up safety checks on Boeing 747s following last month 's Amsterdam air crash . |
| 6 | In the UK , GaAs-based computer chips are now being marketed , and UK manufacturers are stepping up production of GaAs materials . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Then you are building up evidence . |
| 9 | We are building up problems for ourselves . |
| 10 | Most hospitals now have chapels , but many are hidden down corridors and are uninviting . |
| 11 | West Country Living : More chain store links John Dudman on how the supermarkets are branching out west |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And as a spokeswoman from Relate points out , ‘ If you are always rowing , you are using up time you could spend having fun together . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As the Republic seems set to qualify for America , they are drawing up plans for the biggest television sports blockbuster ever . |
| 18 | The Law Society and the BSI are drawing up plans which would allow firms of solicitors to apply for a kitemark . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He has been telling golfing cronies in Ireland that the Beeb are reduced to such drastic economies because they are coughing up £10 million a year on Eldorado . |
| 23 | Now they also , in the wake of this knowledge is the er awareness that they 're going to be interrogated on this , and they 're also sitting up there thinking ‘ what are we going to say ? ’ and indeed that 's another reason for bringing this whole incident to an end , because in a sense they are cooking up alibis and covering their backs . |
| 24 | The Nuclear Waste Executive NAREX are to carry out tests at Sellafield and to select the best site to build a dump for nuclear waste . |
| 25 | The researchers believe that the Purple Emperors are sucking up sodium , and possibly potassium and calcium present in the brick and gravel following the evaporation of the water in which they were brought to the surface . |
| 26 | Many are speeding up investment in technology to make their water gathering facilities more efficient . |
| 27 | Dads that are bringing up families single handedly should n't be forgotten either . |
| 28 | According to government , some of the main needs to be met by the social security system are bringing up children , and caring for elderly or disabled people . |
| 29 | Meantime she has nothing to pay for the upkeep of my two brothers ; in fact , they are bringing in money . ’ |
| 30 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |