Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Downland Housing Association are building at the Larch Cottage site , Portsmouth Road , while the second site is at Lynchborough Road , Passfield . |
| 2 | They are helping to move soil into a garden they are building at the school with the help of mums , dads and teachers . |
| 3 | The flaws which they are building into the system ( which even Phil is building into the system ) — the endemic morbidity of man and the lethal hostility of his environment — are not incidental but essential . |
| 4 | The way those clouds are building in the sky , I ought to drive . |
| 5 | If you try and fudge it and set up three or four , say they can all discuss the same thing , you are building in the ability for major conflicts . |
| 6 | The residents of Unity Flats are shrugging off the stigma of living in what has long been regarded as one of the city 's most undesirable areas . |
| 7 | It was considered that Sendero had been profiting from the rivalry between the Army and police in the region as to who should spearhead the US-backed campaign against drug trafficking . |
| 8 | During the sixteenth century the Portuguese had already been profiting from the gold being produced in West Africa and Japan . |
| 9 | But as yet we 've not had an announcement on those , what those conditions are attaching to the use of the , of the grant . |
| 10 | The UK subsidiary has been eating into the parent company 's profits due to start up costs for its paging and mobile communications operations . |
| 11 | Standing there in shade , I observed the man and woman who had also been eating in the hotel emerge with their child . |
| 12 | Heaven knows what his victim had been eating before the battle , but it ended Seiguard 's reign of terror , permanently . |
| 13 | On the first day the West Indian bowlers had been sparing with the bouncer , for on such a pitch there was no need for it . |
| 14 | Workers are risin' against the poverty and 'ardship . |
| 15 | I do believe there is a feeling of real excitement and expectation amongst your generation because of the extraordinary changes we are seeing across the world . |
| 16 | When we discussed it , it became clear that there is a wide spectrum of response to the whole issue of private care , that the response from within the statutory services tends to be one of suspicion , tends to be one of sometimes a fairly moralistic approach and this is quite at odds with the response we are seeing from the government which tends to go to the other end of the spectrum and be promoting private care as the solution to many of the problems of service provision and volume that are being encountered at the moment . |
| 17 | I mean , seeing the amount of kids that do go out there , and the state of the changing rooms that they are using at the moment , I , I think it 's really degrading . |
| 18 | And , even more essential , that the typefaces you are using within the package are available on those systems . |
| 19 | Intel needs to do some stroking among this class of customer even though Intel defenders claim the P5 schematics designers are using in the absence of silicon are so exact they should have little trouble getting up and running and out the door once the chips are delivered . |
| 20 | This may well have been due to the satisfaction he had been deriving from the composition of East Coker , though he made no mention to me of the new poem . |
| 21 | She 'd been waitressing in the dining-room for breakfast and lunch . |
| 22 | Shaking off the nostalgia that threatened to overwhelm her , she went to the window and threw it open , startling a tiny robin that had been resting on the sill . |
| 23 | Restart cyclamen corms that have been resting over the summer . |
| 24 | He and his men had been resting in the farm when they saw Sharpe 's ignominious flight . |
| 25 | Raynor had fetched wine from a corner cupboard , and was heating it with a thin iron rod which had been resting in the fire 's embers . |
| 26 | But if England and Wales were to provide them with the right context come this Saturday , Mike Teague — who has been shortening in the betting and who was integral to the Lions ' strategy under the same coach , McGeechan , in Australia in 1989 — and either Emyr Lewis or Richard Webster could win the two blindside berths . |
| 27 | On the contrary , we are drawing upon the consensus of unbiased contemporary New Testament scholarship . |
| 28 | With such questions , a major task lies in unpacking the word-play , and making clear the distinctions you are drawing from the formulation of the question . |
| 29 | Coincident with the attention to reduce noise on the German Speedwing , David Clarke of Windy Kites in the UK had been toying with the concept of a kite with a rigid trailing edge . |
| 30 | Some people in the liberal Free Democratic party , the junior partner in the government , had been toying with the idea of switching their support to the Social Democrats after December . |