Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [be] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We continued on to Musselwick Sands , where bathers were enjoying the beach . |
| 2 | Where sites are distributing the data locally , in whatever form , they must set up their own local registration system . |
| 3 | But early yesterday , several thousand people with different ideas assembled at the Dynamo Metro station , and began marching towards Red Square , where officials were putting the finishing touches to preparations for the usual annual parade . |
| 4 | Edwards also states that he is being driven by environmental concern and that climbers are wearing the crags away in some place . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When it became clear that conservatives were dominating the Congress , many members of the Democratic Platform resolved to leave the CPSU and form their own party called ( in November 1990 ) the Republican Party of the Russian Federation . |
| 9 | A turbulent third day 's debate at the Congress of People 's Deputies was marked by emotion and alarms over a report — later discounted — that troops were approaching the Kremlin . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The problem with this , however , is that , there is no evidence to show that investors are avoiding the market . |
| 13 | If we agree that customers are buying the benefits of a product , then equally organizations are selling the benefits of that product . |
| 14 | It is clear that firms are taking the regulatory regime seriously ; nearly all have taken steps to comply with audit regulations . |
| 15 | Retreating to her bedroom , flinging things into her suitcase , she was furious to find that tears were pricking the backs of her eyes , and her heart felt as if it might be slowly breaking into a million pieces … |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | What really annoyed Daugherty was that critics were applauding The Public Enemy , a movie which seemed to him to be just a very well-cut and scripted melodrama that would serve as good ‘ yokel bait ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A 1990 study by the National Academy of Sciences found that shrimpers were causing the deaths of as many as 44,000 turtles each year . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | No further information is available at present , but it is understood that police are interviewing the five people arrested . ’ |
| 23 | But even as she said this , as Lewis , rather dramatically , told her , the Standard was on the streets announcing that police were treating the case as murder . |
| 24 | He may really have believed that Poles were running the Hungarian rebellion and could carry disaffection north of the Carpathians . |
| 25 | The conductor pushed the door open and peered up the train to see that others were doing the same . |
| 26 | Even so we do sometimes find admissions that women were doing the more advanced tasks . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It is unlikely that the Slugs and Leatherjackets are killing the fish , other than that their decomposition will contribute to the poor water quality . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | When the natives had to pay yasak in furs and Russians were killing the dwindling stocks , or when , as in Chukotka , both sides were very short of provisions and the Russians , desperate for food , stole reindeer in large numbers , hostilities were more or less inevitable . |