Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] are [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But both Dr Kohl and Mr Modrow , aware that the hopes of many for reunification are growing by the day , and more quickly than the politicians can accommodate , tried to cool expectations . |
| 2 | A mother and daughter in the Forest of Dean are writing to more than fifty prisoners in America … including convicted killers on death row . |
| 3 | Hundreds of ramblers from the Forest of Dean are campaigning against the governments proposals . |
| 4 | ‘ But my feeling is that the winds of change are blowing through this club and that the old guard 's days are numbered . ’ |
| 5 | The purpose of the remainder of this chapter is to analyse the changing structure and composition of the national population , assess the principal dimensions of population redistribution , and examine the impact which both these sources of change are having on the geography of Britain . |
| 6 | Six teams of experts are going to Russia and two to Ukraine for placements of six months to a year ; each team consists of between four and six engineers , who will install computerised protection systems and leak detection devices . |
| 7 | THE sun 's out and hundreds of Merseysiders are flocking into their gardens for a good old barbie . |
| 8 | Steel-casting companies in Spain which in Britain would have been bankrupted are continuing to offer steel-castings at artificially low prices , and indeed inefficient capacity and production is not only being maintained but is even being purposely created ; while in France the producers of steel-castings are benefiting from soft loans from mostly state-owned banks . |
| 9 | I am delighted to see that lots of improvements are happening within the business and that people are not waiting for ‘ Felcourt ’ to make things happen — the best initiatives start in the field and are developed by enthusiastic individuals and long may this continue . |
| 10 | So , because of the fierce competition , a number of houses are looking at gimmicks to try to bring their new authors to the fore . |
| 11 | In the East there are social problems on a much more basic level than in the West , and these of course are competing with cultural needs . |
| 12 | A whole host of patterns are waiting for you to find and use them . |
| 13 | Erm a lot of employers are looking at self funding because the m They can manage their own money and it 's much more efficient to do so and then they also have a lot more control over the management of the claims themselves because they select their own management corporation . |
| 14 | Two people who think they are disagreeing may , in fact , be talking about different things and would n't disagree if they were talking about the same thing , but it 's important to recognise that when the university and colleges talk about what they want to do about sexual harassment , they certainly imagine that a range of different forms of response are going to be appropriate to this range of different forms of behaviour , ranging from on the one hand education , encouraging people to think they have a right to protest and answer back , to giving them access to erm people who may mediate and persuade another person who they 're not making an impact on that their behaviour is unreasonable , to the most extreme disciplinary procedures against someone who 's behaving in a way which is generally thought to be unacceptable and who 's not prepared to desist . |
| 15 | Already lines of recruits are filing past the hotplates to collect the Catering Corps ' famous blend of humour and culinary excellence . |
| 16 | It is not a region where costly Plans of Action are going to work . |
| 17 | Having worked out how your room will be used , you should consider what sort of finishes are going to be suitable . |
| 18 | A case that looks set to rival Outhwaite in notoriety concerns two Feltrim syndicates , where at least £200m of losses are emerging on ‘ excess-of-loss ’ insurance in 1987–89 . |
| 19 | The most rapid rates of deforestation are occurring in the tropical rainforest regions , but deforestation is also significant in the savanna woodlands that occupy the drier tropical and subtropical regions . |
| 20 | Hundreds of gypsies are gathering for one of the biggest horse fairs of the year . |
| 21 | The puppet pigs with the squeaky voices who captured the imagination of a generation of youngsters are appearing in a new ITV children 's series on puppetry . |
| 22 | The people of El-ahrairah are mustering for war . |
| 23 | The lochans of Scotland are teeming with interesting things too , and I confess to a penchant for peering into dark , peaty puddles at every opportunity in the eternal search for frogs and newts . |
| 24 | The employees in such departments are often out of touch with changes in public opinion , relying instead on research data which may not be framed in a context most likely to discover what changes of attitude are occurring in consumer habits . |
| 25 | An increasing number of countries are moving towards a policy of prohibiting the sale of fireworks to the public and instead , having organised displays operated by experts ; ensuring that there is careful segregation of spectators from staff who are igniting the fireworks . |
| 26 | BGS and the Geological Survey of Ireland are collaborating on the compilation of a new tectonic map of Great Britain , Ireland and the surrounding seas . |
| 27 | ‘ A lot of companies are going through a process of change and old certainties are going , which leads to insecurity , a lack of certainty and worry over jobs , ’ said . |
| 28 | More cases of abuse are coming to light , and children have to be protected ; some children have to be rescued from the living hell they have to endure . |
| 29 | Two lecturers at the University of Swansea are lecturing in a local pub . |
| 30 | ‘ It is clear that political-administrative elites and not the masses of acceptors are deciding on the technology to be used ’ USAID Evaluation Report , 1979 |