Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must give the exact critical values , right , if those critical values that you are using to compare with the regressionally significant whether you have serial correlation or not erm so they 're very very important and they ought to be included erm because otherwise we do n't know whether a test statistic is er statistically significant or not . |
| 2 | The research will monitor what coping strategies governing bodies are using to deal with the tasks and responsibilities given to them by the new educational legislation and will also focus on the identification of power relations ( including gender and race/ethnicity ) , decision making processes and networks of influence operating in the eight governing bodies . |
| 3 | ‘ At the moment , I am struggling to take in what it all means to me . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I am celebrating 10 years in management today and I am struggling to think of a worse away performance . ’ |
| 5 | Thus support for families who are helping to care for an elderly frail relative was built into the activities planned for social service departments from the beginning . |
| 6 | Manufacturers and specialists are struggling to respond to constantly changing requirements , he said . |
| 7 | NATO 's politicians and defence planners are struggling to agree on what threats Europe now faces and on what sort of common defences it should have in future . |
| 8 | Farmers are struggling to cope with an invasion of slugs . |
| 9 | But when hospitals are struggling to stay within budgets such initiatives are not given a high priority . |
| 10 | Erm essentially we we are sticking sticking to more information about environmental environmental issues expect er er within the ne next few months . |
| 11 | In this respect , a famously offensive passage by Rousseau on the education of girls may be seen as , after all , no more than realistic for period and place : recommending that girls be taught to break off games they are enjoying to return to work without complaint , he writes : |
| 12 | But at the heart of that issue I you know that specific issue I think is a good example of the of of the problem which I see you facing is that I think it 's more not so much about the noise but about the fact that we have a relatively privileged few people who are enjoying going to these May Balls I mean and enjoying the end of their exams , staying up all night , and I wonder in fact if it 's more a matter of sour grapes rather than environmental health . |
| 13 | Secondly , although the belief we are denying poses as an affirmation grammatically or verbally , yet its content refers to a non-recognition of people , a negative judgement in this case of mammoth proportions on a whole people . |
| 14 | Pravda had commented late in 1931 : In England , as elsewhere , the task of the " Lefts " consists in hindering the workers who are becoming revolutionised from abandoning the Labour Party and going over to the revolutionary fight , to Communism . |
| 15 | Thousands of children are becoming hooked on computer games , according to a survey . |
| 16 | You are letting someone else 's voice and energy into your subconscious and as such , are becoming led by another person on whom you are then dependent for your changes and success . |
| 17 | With the policy of selling local authority properties it is increasingly the worst housing that remains and thus lone mothers are becoming concentrated in this poor housing . |
| 18 | ‘ I am dying to play at Wembley , ’ admitted Owers . ’ |
| 19 | We live in a ‘ market economy ’ and many one time ‘ command economies ’ are endeavouring to change to the same arrangements . |
| 20 | More frequent medical examinations would not help reduce the risk ; the tests currently available that might indicate , for example , whether an increased coronary risk does or does not exist , themselves carry a risk that exceeds that which we are endeavouring to protect against . |
| 21 | People are dying to get in here now . |
| 22 | These paints are not damp-proof , and the surface you are painting needs to be dry before you start ( ie no recurring damp ) . |
| 23 | As I have a fairly tight budget I am looking to buy at around £6,000 to £7,500 , However , at this price the addition of VAT is a hefty extra . |
| 24 | Apart from needing to know varying amounts about the office , status , role , and personal details of people we are communicating with , we also need to form hypotheses about the degree of knowledge we share with them and the degree to which the schemata they are operating correspond with our own . |
| 25 | I am writing to complain about manufacturers who use unnecessary packaging . |
| 26 | The letters page contains a plea from R Scott of Doncaster : ‘ I am writing to complain about the appalling lack of sexism in Sounds . ’ |
| 27 | The letters page contains a plea from R Scott of Doncaster : ‘ I am writing to complain about the appalling lack of sexism in Sounds . ’ |
| 28 | I am writing to appeal to you or your readers . |
| 29 | I am writing to apologise for not having been in touch to arrange a time to visit your new editing facility in Wellington Square . |
| 30 | I am writing to respond to Mr Dave Ayres , whose article appeared in your February 1992 issue . |