Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The revival in borrowing was concentrated on credit cards , suggesting that consumers are stepping up purchases of everyday items but are still reluctant to take on debt to finance household durables and cars . |
| 2 | POLICE are stepping up patrols on Wrexham industrial estate after a spate of factory break-ins in which office equipment and other property was stolen . |
| 3 | NORTH Wales Police are stepping up patrols of flood areas in a bid to ward off looters . |
| 4 | Scientists are stepping up tests to find the source of dioxin contamination which has brought financial ruin to two farmers . |
| 5 | AIRLINES are stepping up safety checks on Boeing 747s following last month 's Amsterdam air crash . |
| 6 | In the UK , GaAs-based computer chips are now being marketed , and UK manufacturers are stepping up production of GaAs materials . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Then you are building up evidence . |
| 9 | We are building up problems for ourselves . |
| 10 | West Country Living : More chain store links John Dudman on how the supermarkets are branching out west |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And as a spokeswoman from Relate points out , ‘ If you are always rowing , you are using up time you could spend having fun together . ’ |
| 13 | I know that , I know that erm , the existing committee are drawing up proposals for their refurbishment of the place , erm , obviously to look for , for help towards it . |
| 14 | But interest in the work is running high , and Russian and Chinese teams have established contact with the Greeks and are drawing up plans to establish their own networks . |
| 15 | The Premiership outfit , who have already built three new stands in the past 15 years , are drawing up plans to replace the old south stand which was built in the 1930s . |
| 16 | As the Republic seems set to qualify for America , they are drawing up plans for the biggest television sports blockbuster ever . |
| 17 | The Law Society and the BSI are drawing up plans which would allow firms of solicitors to apply for a kitemark . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A group of health authority staff , council officers and community workers are drawing up guidelines to help cut accidents by a third by the year 2000 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He has been telling golfing cronies in Ireland that the Beeb are reduced to such drastic economies because they are coughing up £10 million a year on Eldorado . |
| 22 | Now they also , in the wake of this knowledge is the er awareness that they 're going to be interrogated on this , and they 're also sitting up there thinking ‘ what are we going to say ? ’ and indeed that 's another reason for bringing this whole incident to an end , because in a sense they are cooking up alibis and covering their backs . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Many are speeding up investment in technology to make their water gathering facilities more efficient . |
| 25 | Dads that are bringing up families single handedly should n't be forgotten either . |
| 26 | According to government , some of the main needs to be met by the social security system are bringing up children , and caring for elderly or disabled people . |
| 27 | Meantime she has nothing to pay for the upkeep of my two brothers ; in fact , they are bringing in money . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Other people are bringing in ideas and they are rewarded with commission rather than a free sample of the finished product . |
| 30 | I 've worked in for 30 years and lots of us have worked for over 25 years and we do know that they are bringing in trainees in on higher salaries than ourselves , which obviously is quite upsetting when you 've worked a long time . |