Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ch'noze are raiding further east than usual this year . ’ |
| 2 | AIRLINES are stepping up safety checks on Boeing 747s following last month 's Amsterdam air crash . |
| 3 | In the UK , GaAs-based computer chips are now being marketed , and UK manufacturers are stepping up production of GaAs materials . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Then you are building up evidence . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | West Country Living : More chain store links John Dudman on how the supermarkets are branching out west |
| 8 | … You are seeing where pollution is and you are policing . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And as a spokeswoman from Relate points out , ‘ If you are always rowing , you are using up time you could spend having fun together . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Many are speeding up investment in technology to make their water gathering facilities more efficient . |
| 16 | Meantime she has nothing to pay for the upkeep of my two brothers ; in fact , they are bringing in money . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And so the gulls can absorb or accommodate the pressures of the wind , standing apparently unconcerned in gusts which are tossing around 180-litre oil drums like playthings . |
| 19 | You are poisoning the very sources of order and happiness and virtue ; you are tearing up root and branch all relations of families to each other ; you are annulling , as it were , the institution of domestic life decreed by Providence Himself , the wisest and kindest of earthly ordinances , the mainstay of social peace and virtue and therein of national security . |
| 20 | ‘ If it 's not completely beyond you , ’ she said glacially , as they reached the hut , ‘ perhaps you could tell me why we are checking out fishing equipment ? ’ |
| 21 | Although we shall be looking at ‘ spiritual direction ’ in its narrower Christian connotation , we need to see it is also relevant to the wider contemporary scene where people are seeking both spirituality and direction . |
| 22 | TIME , weariness and creditors are pushing out West Africa 's old dictators . |
| 23 | ‘ German , Italian and French firms are picking up business while the British are being left behind , ’ he claims . |
| 24 | Th they 're building up flexitime which |
| 25 | Any debate will persuade them they 're whipping up interest in fiction . |
| 26 | It 's only when they 're knocking out tosh like ‘ Everything Starts With An E ’ that you start to yawn . |
| 27 | All I am hoping is that it was n't the boy friend you 're meeting tomorrow evening . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ We 're going up Hvannadalshnúkur … ’ |
| 29 | Yeah well they 're going down south |
| 30 | We have this one and then we 're going further south and operate with the other , the second one . |