Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will she also emphasise that we are building on success and , to this end , will she give the House the figures for 1988 , 1989 and 1990 on the proportion of American and Japanese investment in the EC which came to Britain ? |
| 2 | As many as 300,000 people , many of them farming families who have flooded in from the villages , are clamouring for survival . |
| 3 | Faced with such evidence , supermarkets are clamouring for information to label their goods ’ environmentally sound ’ , and there is an Early Day Motion in Parliament calling for a ’ chlorine free ’ paper industry ( Sweden already makes 95% of its soft paper without the aid of chlorine ) . |
| 4 | ‘ So you are seeing through sun ’ , |
| 5 | I believe that what we are seeing from President Moi and members of his Government is all going in the right direction . |
| 6 | People who are drowning in mortification do not find it easy to laugh . |
| 7 | BUCKING the usual trend to paint Spitfires after completion of their flight-test programme , Historic Flying at Audley End , Essex , are refinishing in detail at the earliest opportunity . |
| 8 | All figures that we 've produced and are producing in respect of commitments and the policy element the Greater York policy element of policy H one , relate to within the area defined as Greater York through the Greater York . |
| 9 | If you are typing in text with short lines , eg an address , use New line ( Shift+Enter ) at the end of each line except the last , when you should tap Enter . |
| 10 | The old certainties that ruled computer industry analysis over the past 30 years are tumbling like autumn leaves , and commercial realities are now eating away at the traditional determination of Japanese companies to forget the bottom line and stick with major product sectors for the long term : Sony Corp says it is considering pulling out of Japan 's competitive word processor market to save the cost of developing and manufacturing new models , Reuter reports from Tokyo ; Sony began making word processors in 1985 and production reached a peak of 10,000 a month ; NEC Corp , Toshiba Corp , Fujitsu Ltd and Sharp Corp now dominate the market and Sony currently makes just 500 of the things a month , a drop in the 1992 market ocean of 2.6m machines . |
| 11 | The company might perhaps be saying that , as happens throughout Britain , nursery children are drawing on waste computer paper . |
| 12 | They are competing for plum roles and staking their claim to be the No 1 box office attraction . |
| 13 | Of course , in er mammals wha you could say what was happening in mammals is that males are competing for access to uteruses . |
| 14 | As the example of housing palpably shows , conflict arises in the most acute form where these resources are in short supply and where all social groups are competing in pursuit of the same objective . |
| 15 | The object-oriented software is targeted at companies that are rightsizing into client/server and distributed computing environments and re-engineering their processes . |
| 16 | Such advances are helping to chip away local employer prejudice against recruiting from the estate ; Northern Electric and carbody manufacturer Vickers Pressings have taken on people recently . |
| 17 | It 's not until the front tyres are struggling for adhesion , and screaming in anguish as the nose slithers round , that the Dodge 's steering imparts any sensation of what 's happening down at road level . |
| 18 | Ipswich are struggling for confidence after a flying start to the season … |
| 19 | The European champions , who host the first leg in 11 days ' time , have lost Ruud Gullit and Marco Van Basten and are struggling for form . |
| 20 | The president and the parliament are struggling for power , but both have said that individual savers will be compensated for the ravages of inflation . |
| 21 | More specifically , the prospecls for revolution can be deduced from the mode of production within a particular social formation ( society ) and the class forces that are struggling for power . |
| 22 | Lamont 's decision not to tax the Royal Family is disgraceful and I do n't know how the Queen can sleep at night when her subjects are struggling in misery . |
| 23 | One of the hon. Members who spoke earlier pointed out the dangers , and I wonder whether the Government are aware of the dangers of the policy that they are pursuing in relation to gas-fired power stations . |
| 24 | Decisions of the Commissioners are binding on adjudication officers and on tribunals , but not all decisions of the Commissioners are reported . |
| 25 | IXI says the initiative will also encourage users to move up to the latest 1.2 release of Motif — many are sticking with version 1.1 for the foreseeable future , unconvinced of the robustness of the new environment ( UX No 394 ) . |
| 26 | About one hundred years ago the EMMS directors were given the responsibility of running the Hawthornbrae Trust which currently exists to provide holiday grants to Edinburgh residents who are recovering from illness and who would not otherwise be able to afford even a short holiday break . |
| 27 | We pray for those who are ill , or are recovering from illness , especially for Jim Jackson and Doreen Parris . |
| 28 | The house is being inspected by surveyors to make sure it 's structurally safe … the girls and their mother are recovering from shock . |
| 29 | One or two police forces are experimenting with notebook computers , and perhaps it is intended that they will receive information from the control computer . |
| 30 | All the time they are experimenting with weight , size and shape in three dimensions . |