Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You react like one when you burn the toast , so why should n't you react like one when you are pitching for a new account ? |
| 2 | ‘ Care managers are stepping into a different world , managing budgets and telling clients when they ca n't do something because there is no more money . |
| 3 | With the threat of relegation looming again , the loss of the ground , and the millstone around my neck of a team of asthmatic pine martens with the collective brain power of a kiwi fruit , the pressures on me are building to a frightening pitch . |
| 4 | And you are kneeling in a field |
| 5 | Times may be hard in those places , but note how few people are clamouring for a return to the let's-stay-poor-together socialism of the past . |
| 6 | Only six weeks after making their solemn covenant-pledge with God the people are clamouring for a replica of the old gods of Egypt . |
| 7 | Stars from the National English Opera , Janice Cairns ( soprano ) and Anthony Mee ( tenor ) are singing in a Grand Opera Gala with full orchestra and chorus at Sunderland Empire at 7.30pm , Saturday March 28 . |
| 8 | My parents still do n't know what course I am pursuing at a college of education . |
| 9 | It moves the word you are typing to a new line when it enters an invisible margin running down the right-hand side of the screen . |
| 10 | ALL over Britain , office , shopping and road projects launched in the sunny days of the late 1980s are drawing to a close and building workers , their companies and shareholders are facing the economic equivalent of deep mid-winter . |
| 11 | THE school holiday are drawing to a close so take advantage of an offer from Red Funnel ferries and give the kids something to talk about when the new term starts by popping across to the Isle of Wight . |
| 12 | Universities and colleges are looking to expand their intakes , but are drawing on a shrinking population of 18-year-olds . |
| 13 | The fiscal argument is that welfare state benefits for the poor cost relatively less in the more affluent States , because they are drawing on a larger tax base ; the higher the average income in a State , the smaller the effort required to finance a programme at a given level of payments ( because presumably there will be both fewer recipients plus more rich people to tax than in States with low average incomes ) . |
| 14 | You are drawing upon a more ancient and powerful source of memory than me , or Huxley , or the boys , his sons , Christian and Steven — and God alone knows what happened to them . ’ |
| 15 | avoid putting neighbouring groups into a situation where they are competing on a win-lose basis for resources or status , for example . |
| 16 | There is a big difference between the terms that you may be able to negotiate with , say , a US company seeking to recruit you to work in the Middle East and those offered by , say , a West German company offering a job at their headquarters , for which you are competing with a West German national . |
| 17 | Videodisc technology is still evolving and different systems are competing in a market which is still uncertain . |
| 18 | Some of the country 's top long distance runners are competing in a big 10 kilometre race , which includes an inter-counties match and the Gloucestershire county championship . |
| 19 | The French Commandos are tucking into a meal . |
| 20 | It is especially useful if you are knitting with a very soft yarn which breaks easily or with a yarn which has no stretch . |
| 21 | Well , if the main carriage slips while the ribber knits going one way , and then the ribber slips while the main bed knits going the other way , you are knitting in a circle . |
| 22 | We are struggling for a terminal at which trains can come in from all parts of the country , at which there can be an interchange for the continent and at which people can move on relatively quickly . |
| 23 | Through it , Palestinians are struggling on a daily basis to shake off Israel 's authority and to construct their own . |
| 24 | To a very recently bereaved family who are struggling with a multiplicity of emotions this early attention to fees can seem mercenary . |
| 25 | As I am drawing to a close , as I can find no further connections or criticisms of these two books however obvious or unobvious they may be , I would like to leave you with an appropriate quote from one of my books . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't think misplacing twenty thousand dollars ’ worth of jewellery is quite in the same category as forgetting your glasses are hanging from a chain around your neck . ’ |
| 27 | As with chariots , when you are firing at a War Wagon with a stone thrower , or any other weapon which has a template to represent its effect , it is possible to hit the horses , the War Wagon , or the crew depending on the position of the template . |
| 28 | This suggests that such firms are reacting on a more ad hoc basis to pressure in the market , the report says . |
| 29 | Two of America 's hippest and quirkiest directors , Paul ‘ Eating Raoul ’ Bartel and Gus ‘ Private Idaho ’ Van Sant , are collaborating on a feature version of the biography of prime hipster Warhol . |
| 30 | Hewlett-Packard Co and Colorado-based Ellery Systems Inc are collaborating on a development environment for OSF 's Distributed Computing Environment . |