Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [v-ing] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here in Cheshire business men are nervously waiting to meet the business angels is whom hands the future of their company might rest . |
| 2 | Hotels are constantly striving to improve the level of guest services . |
| 3 | New methods are constantly evolving to meet the needs of businesses , developers , investors , construction companies , government organizations and other project sponsors . |
| 4 | I am sorry , I am only trying to answer the question . |
| 5 | I think we are perhaps beginning to find the conventional notions of convenience and comfort , of enjoyment and entertainment , inadequate . |
| 6 | We are only beginning to realize the significance of stone . |
| 7 | If you are only planning to follow the F-Plan for a week or two to polish off a modest weight problem of just a few pounds . |
| 8 | Pills and potions are only going to remove the symptoms . |
| 9 | The knowledge that you are personally helping to support the future development of Medau work and the training of our teachers |
| 10 | Thus it can be argued that although the courts proclaim that in reviewing the decisions of an administrative body they are merely attempting to keep the body within the jurisdiction conferred upon it by Parliament , in fact they do sometimes explicitly justify their decisions by reference to the expertise or lack of expertise of the body whose decision it is sought to review . |
| 11 | During analysis it appears that they often become involved with women who are attached to another man , and that they are unconsciously seeking to re-create the early family situation . |
| 12 | Now the speculators have hit hard times and are desperately trying to off-load the cars which have become millstones around their necks . |
| 13 | Prolific striker Ian Rush is out of Saturday 's League encounter against Crystal Palace with hamstring trouble and the club are desperately trying to hurry the Welshman back in time for Tuesday night 's Coca-Cola Cup fixture between the two clubs . |
| 14 | I am not writing to discuss the subject of inflation although give a soap-box to stand on I could go on for ever . |
| 15 | I am not trying to put the whole world right . |
| 16 | Here I am not trying to give the impression that I am a Test Pilot as such , not in the way of Roly Beamont , or a host of other of my friends in this particular field ; this was just a question of an air test rather than a flight test . |
| 17 | I am not attempting to compare the quality of the Territorial Army now and following national service , but the TA then consisted almost entirely of people who had served for two years on a full-time basis , and the level of skill and general martial ability was very high . |
| 18 | Ian is obviously a deeply spiritual person and I for one am NOT going to take the piss out of him as he recounts to us his close encounter with ‘ them ’ . |
| 19 | I hope so , but I am not going to argue the case one way or the other , nor to speculate over its possible memic evolution . |
| 20 | I am not going to describe the voyage in detail . |
| 21 | The optimism of the Section 's paper , summed up in its conclusion that ‘ we are finally coming to understand the governing tendencies of the economic mechanism ’ , was rejected by the Treasury , who felt it was ‘ academic and dangerous ’ . |
| 22 | Young and Willmott ( 1973 ) , for example , ( although they are generally trying to demonstrate the increasing symmetry of domestic relationships ) show that married men spent some ten hours per week on domestic tasks , compared with 23 hours for full-time and 35 hours for part-time employed women . |
| 23 | I have gone much further than I intended when I set out on this report and am already beginning to regret the substantial breach in normal departmental procedures which this has involved . |
| 24 | Yields in the Swiss capital market for Japanese firms ' bonds are already beginning to reflect the range of issuers ' credit ratings . |
| 25 | They are already beginning to affect the pattern of organisation in the classroom . |
| 26 | However , now that it has been decided that a Sunday game of 50 overs per side is a better idea ‘ for cricket ’ , many are already beginning to rue the demise of the 40-overs game . |
| 27 | Pampers are already helping to protect the environment . |
| 28 | Western oil company 's are already bidding to exploit the newly drained marshes . |
| 29 | Staff are already having to put the inmates 3 to a cell . |
| 30 | Unless there is a transfer of resources of the dimension that is necessary in terms of trade agreements and aid , we are not beginning to tackle the problem of economic migration , which I forecast will be the greatest problem that Europe and other parts of the world will face over the next 50 years . |