Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Top names enter DARTS : Dennis Priestley , the 1991 world champion , and many other big names are competing in the Northumbrian Open at Haggerston Castle this weekend . |
| 2 | Egg producers must recognise that they are competing in the sophisticated food industry of the late 1980s and that they have a responsibility to the consumer . |
| 3 | Building on the work of the Japan Industrial Studies Programme already carried out at the Policy Studies Institute , the aim is to find out how Japanese managers , especially those in companies that are competing in the British market , see marketing and how they succeed in putting their strategies into effect . |
| 4 | SOLO FLIGHT Manson Bluebird Things are cooking in the fertile minds of Britain 's guitar builders . |
| 5 | The two teams arrived in the northern capital from Beijing where they had been competing in the Asian Games . |
| 6 | So I could n't agree more , and that will be taken up in the fairly near future , following the information that I 've been gathering in the various meetings that I 've been having round the country on this . |
| 7 | Headteacher Terry Anderson said staff had been struggling in the cramped conditions since the school was opened in 1985 . |
| 8 | We 're particularly aggrieved because we suffered very badly from the storm in 1987 and we 've been struggling in the past few years of drought to replant , ’ said Mr Myers . |
| 9 | B. The photographs show what changes are happening in the rurban fringes of the towns and cities . |
| 10 | What primary activities are happening in the northern part of Brazil . |
| 11 | Ozone holes have been opening in the Antarctic each September for the past 15 years . |
| 12 | Some of the major questions to be asked are : what changes are occurring in the economic relations with former client states — Cuba , Mongolia and Vietnam — and how far is this affecting the latters ' future economic development ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The question for us now is whether these new forms of growth are occurring in the same geographical labour market areas as those of factory and public sector job losses . |
| 15 | they 're racing on the Thames at Henley as well … 950 competitors are rowing in the qualifying rounds for the royal regatta … 10 women scullers are trying to make it through … for the 950 there are only 330 places to be had so it 's going to be hard and fast … |
| 16 | The alarm that such a prospect generated in England was real and intense : in March 1336 Philip VI ordered the French fleet which had been assembling in the Mediterranean for a crusade to transfer to the mouth of the Seine , and Edward felt convinced that Philip was planning a large-scale invasion of England . |
| 17 | Thus if we are walking in the pastoral , remote country on the borders of Leicestershire and Rutland , following the Eye brook as it makes its way south through undulating fields to the Welland , we pass in a walk of nine or ten miles through a landscape modelled in five different centuries , and this in a part of England that is generally accounted somewhat dull , the monotonous product of parliamentary enclosure . |
| 18 | Another 140,000 are starving in the outlying villages . |
| 19 | Under Cause and Onset look at what has been happening in the preceding hours or days to the onset of the illness and consider the speed with which the illness came on and the order of events . |
| 20 | There were a few people who allowed themselves to feel the pain of loss , the pain of betrayal , when they began to understand what had really been happening in the Soviet Union . |
| 21 | from , from Coventry , what do you feel about what 's been happening in the Soviet Union . |
| 22 | As an amateur person , as it were , interested in art , I get very confused about what 's been happening in the past fifty to eighty years . |
| 23 | Well , no what I 'm , what I 'm denying is I 'm questioning your assertion on what 's been happening in the last couple of weeks that we should react to that on a pa on er er report that has n't been released , right ? |
| 24 | You will now want to make sure that your feet are landing in the right place . |
| 25 | Up until now the naval salvoes are landing in the German positions somewhere in front of No. 6 Commando , at the other end of the village . |
| 26 | The third time she saw it Allen was with her but he must have been looking in the wrong place , for he did n't see it although she did n't understand how that could be . |
| 27 | This suggests , once again , that comprehension experiments may have been looking in the wrong place for evidence of young children 's linguistic competence . |
| 28 | I would not presume to add anything to the Word of God but I have a sneaking suspicion that if Isaiah had been writing in the 1990s he might have added a phrase . |
| 29 | LEEDS boss Doug Laughton and Liverpool manager Graeme Souness are swimming in the same shark-infested sea at the moment . |
| 30 | One new research interest had already been developing in the mid-seventies from my earlier work in semantics . |