Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [v-ing] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind is coming up the valley — quite slowly , like an army that will win . |
| 2 | It is currently 35 degrees Fahrenheit out and the wind is blowing up the canyon at 87 mph hour which gives us a wind chill factor of — just a moment while I look at the chart — says ‘ Should not be skiing ’ which is good because we are n't . |
| 3 | Lever is playing down the move . |
| 4 | In the RSPB 's biggest-ever reedbed rescue , a mechanical digger is digging out the surface of the entire 55 acres of fen and volunteers are carrying out strenuous scrub clearance . |
| 5 | Research is filling in the tale of their counterpart in the New World — maize |
| 6 | So the mayor 's taking out the oranges ? |
| 7 | Fairfax is driving down the same track in the opposite direction . |
| 8 | The JD Tele is jangly and promisingly loud ; the Signature model sounds subdued to the point of inertia , almost as if the basswood is sucking up the sound — not a good start . |
| 9 | NEC IS starting up the world 's first production line for 16 megabit chips in its Sagamihara factory , reports Ken Takahashi of Newsbytes . |
| 10 | Milton Keynes is picking up the pieces and pleased that at least no one lost a life . |
| 11 | It comes at a time when the Reagan administration is rolling back the controls established by successive governments in the 1970s . |
| 12 | It seems Cheltenham 's artistic attempt to engender friendship is having exactly the opposite effect , for the time being at least . |
| 13 | INDUSTRIAL wrangling over a new type of small floppy disc for storing data is holding up the development of useful portable computers . |
| 14 | You and the bloody telly , he sat there with the ashtray in his hand and all bloody ash is falling out the bottom ! |
| 15 | Because it , it 's , it 's not particularly going to grab me because I 'm going to look at it and I 'm going to I 'm going to look down to see what it 's asking me do and certainly a busy news editor is looking down the line to see , and the first thing he 'll actually do is , is just have a , a very fast glance at it , find out what it 's about , and just make sure there 's someone who can be phoned , and what the news editor will do is actually throw it out into a pile of other handouts and there 's usually a journalist who 's , who 's who 's won first prize and their task for the day is to do all the handouts , and all you want to be sure of is that someone can make a phone call and the news editor wo n't , wo n't bother with any with any superfluous detail , all he 'd want to know is that somebody can be contacted , we 'll find out about it later . |
| 16 | The skill is running down the beach with all your equipment often in a stiff breeze . |
| 17 | So when my parent is handing out the parental investment , I will be selected to want the parent to give the investment to my sibling if the benefit is twice as great as it would be to myself . |
| 18 | The club sacked chief executive Terry Cassidy and the Bank of Scotland is taking over the Celtic ground as a security to cover their £5 m overdraft . |
| 19 | Northamptonshire County Council is bringing in the ban on nearly four thousand acres of farmland where fox hunting could take place . |
| 20 | The Universities Funding Council is carrying out the policy , in response to the White Paper , of distributing funding according to assessments of research quality department by department . |
| 21 | A dispute with Telecom engineers is holding up the company 's first link in London , and Mercury 's first inter-city line — which should have been operating by now — will not open until next year . |
| 22 | The essence of being a good child is taking on the perspective of those who are more powerful than you , and I was good in this way as my sister never was . |
| 23 | The first stage in building any spreadsheet is deciding where the basic data will be stored . |
| 24 | Luton Town is slipping down the table however ; they lost at Coventry in mid-week and went down one nil at home to Norwich this afternoon , Sherwood on target for the Canaries . |
| 25 | PAUL McGRATH is lining up the ultimate act of revenge against former boss Alex Ferguson — by snatching the title away from the Manchester United manager . |
| 26 | For example , in messages like : Your coat 's on fire The wing 's breaking up The radio 's gone wrong Your uncle 's died probably the majority of English speakers would place the tonic stress on the subject noun , though it is difficult to see how this is more important than the last lexical word in each of the sentences . |
| 27 | Is not the truth that practically everyone was told , ’ Do n't worry — social security is picking up the bill . ’ |
| 28 | Matthew is extending here the theme first highlighted in his account of the calming of the storm . |
| 29 | All the while the cameraman is walking backwards the assistant cameraman walks behind him , holding him by the waist and steering him round children 's bicycles and feed-troughs . |
| 30 | The opposite of turning down the sound is blacking out the picture . |