Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Competitions like this are assisting in the development of equipment and the interaction between teams in the arena and afterwards is absolutely superb . |
| 2 | Half are going to the regions , especially the south-west . |
| 3 | The fear of Cardiff 's rivals is that , without the same resources , they can only lose in a transfer war , and some are looking to the Welsh Rugby Union for legislative salvation . |
| 4 | Some are working with the displaced or in the controlled zones , carrying out literacy campaigns and press or political work . |
| 5 | According to UNEP 's figures , desertification is taking as much land out of agricultural use as exploiters of one kind or another are clearing in the rainforests : |
| 6 | It was a rough crossing , and most people were rather quiet , and a few were vomiting over the railings and indeed all over the upper-deck , but Clara had never felt better , and the rough lurching seemed to her an added attraction . |
| 7 | False atrocity stories , misguidedly spread to encourage a spirit of resistance , and well-founded rumours that the French were waiting on the far side of the Channel to launch a second invasion added to the prevailing gloom and when , on what the diarist Horace Walpole described as ‘ Black Friday ’ , people in London learned that the Jacobites were already at Derby something approaching panic swept the capital . |
| 8 | Some were converting from the heavies such as the Lincoln and Washington , others from the recce and light bomber Mosquito squadrons . |
| 9 | Some were hanging near the surface , while others lay on their sides on the bottom motionless , looking quite dead . |
| 10 | Some were dancing to the beat . |
| 11 | Some were tearing at the glass , others struggling with the doors , but none of them could get out . |
| 12 | It just took 'em up like that , and took 'em across : some were lying in the ditch , some in the hedge . |
| 13 | Of the estimated 1,500 journeymen and 1,200 apprentices working as printers ( pressmen and compositors combined ) in Scotland in the 1850s , rather more than half were working in the book and jobbing section of the trade , the rest in newspaper offices . " |
| 14 | Nevertheless , the British were looking towards the war 's end and the possible shape of civil aviation even before the United States entered the conflict . |
| 15 | I think this is policing on the cheap , and it is something profoundly to be regretted . |
| 16 | But it might not be a bad idea to go down that route to see if we can we can see if it can be exploit it at this stage because we have discussed , and I know this is getting off the the the the agen |
| 17 | Now , what are you doing to really see this is getting off the ground ? |
| 18 | There was a home opened in Tayside earlier this year — a 90 bed home — and this is flying in the face of what a lot of people have put in a lot of effort arguing with health service that you have to get away from the concept that 80 , 90 , 120 beds is a small unit . |
| 19 | Below decks ( this is looking through the engine room ) the additional size of the prototype is obvious — as is the amount of plumbing , piping and wiring needed to provide a reliable All- weather lifeboat . |
| 20 | This is damaging to the Government 's credit and we must do all we can to avoid it . ’ |
| 21 | This is according to the government settled by the founder ; if he hath directed all to be under the absolute power of the visitor , it must be so . |
| 22 | This is according to the government settled by the founder ; if he hath directed all to be under the absolute power of the visitor , it must be so . |
| 23 | This is leading towards the idea of ‘ invariance of mass ’ — there is still the same amount even though it has changed form . |
| 24 | This is emerging in the 90s with Post-modernism , particularly the kind of Reconstructive Post-modernism described by Suzi Gablik in her book ‘ the Enchantment of Art ’ . |
| 25 | Consequently there has been a marked fall in recruitment since 1964 — although it is still not enough on its own to create a shortage of labour — and this is contributing to the ageing labour force . |
| 26 | ‘ My goodness , this is turning into the summer of your dreams , is n't it ? ’ |
| 27 | While all this is going on the archers can pour a rain of arrows on the foe . |
| 28 | It goes without saying that while all this is going on the engineering investigator will be on the look-out for any indication of a pre-crash failure or fracture of any part of the structure or aircraft components since , although the wreckage will inevitably include very many broken units and pieces of structure , any serious defect that was present before the aircraft struck the ground is likely to be significant , if not fundamental , to the cause of the accident . |
| 29 | ( And the prospective mothers-in-law must be aware that this is going through the young man 's mind , must n't they ? |
| 30 | I appeal to the Government to think again , this is going down the wrong road , we do not need these appointed , these appointees appointed by the Home Office and they know how it 's done , they know this new method , but there is the list of the greater the good , and if there 's of course there will be a bias one way or the other arising out of the very method by which it is done . |