Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] are [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where sites are distributing the data locally , in whatever form , they must set up their own local registration system . |
| 2 | Our final report comes from Potosi in Bolivia , the world 's highest city , where Oxfam are helping the families of some of the twenty-five thousand miners who lost their jobs when the world tin market collapsed . |
| 3 | Edwards also states that he is being driven by environmental concern and that climbers are wearing the crags away in some place . |
| 4 | ‘ The whole thing seems to be mushrooming , ’ said Mr Rankin who feels that riders are exceeding the spirit of the planning permission , if not the letter of it . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It worries me that impresarios are using the Russian label to make money at the expense of companies like us , like the Scottish and Northern Ballet . |
| 6 | However , the evidence so far suggests that bats are using the technique , not to distinguish an echo from the original sound that produced it , but for the more subtle task of distinguishing echoes from other echoes . |
| 7 | The senior tutor , Bernard Robinson , himself a layman , says that the college welcomes the new type of lay student and is glad that layfolk are taking the place in the Church marked out for them by Vatican II . |
| 8 | The criticism that extracts are leading the brewers into the same realms of flavouring technology as the food industry is to some degree unfair since the extracts are modifications of existing ingredients . |
| 9 | It is worth noting that Customs are reviewing the current range of exclusions to those items ordinarily installed in new housing that can be relieved from VAT . |
| 10 | The problem with this , however , is that , there is no evidence to show that investors are avoiding the market . |
| 11 | If we agree that customers are buying the benefits of a product , then equally organizations are selling the benefits of that product . |
| 12 | It is clear that firms are taking the regulatory regime seriously ; nearly all have taken steps to comply with audit regulations . |
| 13 | But having fun dressing up to ‘ show off sometimes makes her anxious that people are getting the wrong idea , misinterpreting her look . |
| 14 | My days can involve patrolling the island to make sure that people are observing the rules and that the birds are n't being disturbed either on the land or from the sea . |
| 15 | A second reason for such high reported levels of satisfaction may be that respondents are answering the question in terms of their level of expectations . |
| 16 | Increasingly , however , some in the administration think that trade will not be enough to anchor Eastern Europe to the prosperous West — which means that policy-makers are considering the ticklish question of the future of the European Community . |
| 17 | More importantly , it will indicate that theorists are following the right path in their attempts to unite the disparate forces of nature within one mathematical framework . |
| 18 | Tanjung said : ‘ Witnesses claim that police are taking the arrested demonstrators to the central Timisoara square , where they beat them up and stab them with bayonets , before shoving them into lorries and driving them away no one knows where . ’ |
| 19 | No further information is available at present , but it is understood that police are interviewing the five people arrested . ’ |
| 20 | Erm I am confident that Eurofighter are grasping the thorny problem now in a very businesslike way and er are making the individual partner companies fully accountable for the systems for which they have design responsibility and this again is a aspect of the renegotiation of the contract which we think is very important and we 're determined that er this will happen . |
| 21 | If details of our list are published in a program , it does not mean that Leeds are endorsing the list as official . |
| 22 | The grave claim that politicians are muddying the clear statistical waters has been made on a mumber of occasions now by Sir Claus Moser , a former head of the government statistical service . |
| 23 | It is unlikely that the Slugs and Leatherjackets are killing the fish , other than that their decomposition will contribute to the poor water quality . |
| 24 | Growth is occurring in remote and completely rural counties , as well as in counties that are partly urban or dominated by nearby metropolitan centres , but the south and west are increasing the fastest . |
| 25 | Signals hitch : Radio signals from microwave ovens and TVs are clogging the airwaves and threatening the exploration of space , according to the Space Frequency Coordination Group . |
| 26 | ICE have taken one unit as a base for its own Liverpool office , and solicitors are handling the sale of seven other houses , said ICE spokesman Duncan Sutherland . |
| 27 | Gerrys Anderson and Kelly are dropping the gloves in a Friday night ratings war . |
| 28 | This damage to the training infrastructure may take years to repair The current Government funding regimes for both ET and YT are reducing the numbers of providers and offer insufficient incentives to encourage new organisations to enter the market . ’ |
| 29 | ALL over Britain , office , shopping and road projects launched in the sunny days of the late 1980s are drawing to a close and building workers , their companies and shareholders are facing the economic equivalent of deep mid-winter . |
| 30 | Timed to coincide with the major retrospective of Georgia O'Keeffe at the Hayward Gallery , Alex Reid and Lefevre are holding the first commercial exhibition of the artist 's work to be held in Europe ( 8 April to 7 May ) . |