Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Although many local authorities in their strategy documents state that they aim first at rehabilitation , I remain unconvinced that they are devoting the same resources in terms of skilled social workers with small caseloads and adequate financial support to natural families , as they do to finding and supporting new families . |
2 | ONE of the province 's most popular marching bands , the Millar Memorial Flute , has reported an increase in membership recently with it now in excess of 35 including many young members who are building a firm base for the future . |
3 | As you are building a new pond , you have the opportunity to put in the best filtration system , without paying a fortune . |
4 | Said manager John Bell : ‘ The Canadians are building a huge power plant in Ontario and already they have been in touch for guidance on how we operate our laundry system . ’ |
5 | With reference to the three-dimensional search space shown in Figure 1.1 , we are building a recursive graph along the time and the knowledge-level axes . |
6 | The Chinese authorities are building a 90 megawatt plant on the Yarlung River , 2,600 foot below the Yamdrok Tso lake , with water falling through four tunnels drilled through the Gambala mountains to power the turbines . |
7 | ‘ The two I particularly remember are building the new stand at Ascot and the construction of Central Point in London . ’ |
8 | The doctor says stores are wasting an ideal chance to redefine children 's eating habits . |
9 | He will tell you if you are rotating the left forearm properly on the backswing . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | It appears that German states are opposing a VAT-like tax on in an inconsistent way , aggravated , aggravated by a failure to warn of any increase in the tax in January nineteen ninety three . |
12 | Scottish fishermen 's representatives are opposing an all-out ban and are calling for a series of restrictions on imports until there is a balanced supply at the markets . |
13 | For example , Fielding ( 1982 ) takes the best elements of the three main models : ( a ) the desire to live in a more rural setting ; ( b ) the availability of new jobs in the sunrise industries of the rural areas ; and ( c ) regional planning by governments to argue that the two main factors are first , the development of a post-industrial society where the mobile middle classes are relocating the new industries , and second , the rise of service employment , particularly in the more attractive rural areas of each country . |
14 | The eavesdroppers are proving a serious problem for police in Sheffield , South Yorkshire . |
15 | Significant technological advances in underwater excavation and recovery are proving a mixed blessing in the field of marine archaeology . |
16 | Remaining large areas of old-growth forest in Eastern Europe are proving a tempting source of hard currency at a time of rising world timber prices . |
17 | But the heavy clay gallops near Woodbridge are proving an ideal training ground for young chasers . |
18 | I am attaching a complete list of the personnel in the film unit . |
19 | PS I am attaching the relevant sections of the script |
20 | The problem of thinking we are attaching the same meaning to a word or action when we may not be can be appreciated humorously . |
21 | ‘ You know my nightmare — that I am seeing a dead boy ( whom I never recognize ) on the ground at my feet . |
22 | And Petrarch lived quite near here in Avignon , and I am seeing the same cypresses and oleanders … |
23 | We are seeing a great cultural change among those companies who are demonstrating the importance and benefits of total quality management . |
24 | ‘ We are seeing a radical change in the structure of our society , ’ said Mintel , the research group behind the survey . |
25 | ‘ Given the levels of consumer debt and the continuing rise in unemployment , it is too early to be sure we are seeing a sustainable recovery in consumer spending . |
26 | High street sales last month showed their strongest year-on-year growth since May , but Nigel Whittaker , chairman of the the Confederation of British Industry 's distributive trades panel , who carried out the survey , said : ‘ Given the levels of consumer debt and the continuing rise in unemployment , it is too early to be sure we are seeing a sustainable recovery in consumer spending . ’ |
27 | But we are seeing a widening gap . |
28 | Equally you will not need an application form , except possibly for the record , if you are seeing a single applicant who has applied for the job ‘ on spec . ’ |
29 | What we do know , however , is that we are seeing a green patch , and our experience has a particular , qualitative — indeed paintable — character . |
30 | If it is the latter , then we are seeing a constant rate of rape over the last decade but where women are more willing to make legal complaints and the police and courts not willing to convict other than a very small increase in the number . |