Example sentences of "[noun pl] [am/are] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gulf oil states are stepping up production of a " green " petrol additive in an effort to meet the requirements of the US Clean Air Act , which demands higher levels of oxygen in petrol . |
| 2 | His policies are to put up taxes and abolish mortgage income tax relief . |
| 3 | SUPERMARKET chains are ripping off customers by packaging joints of beef with extra fat . |
| 4 | THE Shamen are shelling out £10,000 in a bid to help victims of the war in Yugoslavia . |
| 5 | A recent policy statement from the AUT , Investing in the future : research and development in the universities , says that the overhead costs of research projects funded by government departments , research councils , industry and other bodies , are not being properly met and so these projects are eating up funds allocated by the Universities Funding Council . |
| 6 | From the European Commission point of view those forms are to cut out fraud and make sure only the genuinely eligible get subsidies . |
| 7 | FUNERAL insurance plans are going up market . |
| 8 | Spurs are checking out Coventry 's John Williams . |
| 9 | ‘ UNREALISTIC ’ bids for building contracts are holding back recovery in the construction industry , it was claimed today . |
| 10 | TIME , weariness and creditors are pushing out West Africa 's old dictators . |
| 11 | Some Age Concern groups are setting up schemes for home care , in cooperation with the local authority . |
| 12 | ‘ Children in all social groups are storing up health problems by eating the wrong foods during their developing years . |
| 13 | My manners are tearing off heads — |
| 14 | It is relieved that the most the Americans now want ( apart from money , naturally , of which the Koreans are putting up $220m ) is for Korea to take over more of the job of defending itself , thus freeing American troops and equipment based in Korea for duty in the Gulf . |
| 15 | In the UK , GaAs-based computer chips are now being marketed , and UK manufacturers are stepping up production of GaAs materials . |
| 16 | DENTISTS are pulling out patients ' teeth unnecessarily as they struggle to maintain living standards under a new Government contract , a survey showed yesterday . |
| 17 | The domes are carried on pendentives and below are rectangular piers without capitals . |
| 18 | These domes are carried on pendentives and are each 40 feet in diameter . |
| 19 | The researchers believe that the Purple Emperors are sucking up sodium , and possibly potassium and calcium present in the brick and gravel following the evaporation of the water in which they were brought to the surface . |
| 20 | Remember , while your Goblins are soaking up casualties your real troops are getting closer to the enemy . |
| 21 | These neutrons are setting off alarms all round your cerebral hemispheres . |
| 22 | Strict crop movement and hygiene controls have been imposed on the farm and MAFF plant health and seeds inspectors are carrying out investigations of the surrounding area . |
| 23 | As these sites are used up housebuilders have looked further afield to the small towns and villages of southern England which are now within commuting reach of London and the motorway-induced development radiating from it . |
| 24 | These companies are buying up genes , storing them in gene banks and patenting them . |
| 25 | ‘ But when companies are laying off workers , they ca n't then be seen to donate money to charity . |
| 26 | , Large numbers of US-owned concerns are setting up manufacturing plants just over the Mexican frontier in order to escape increasingly tough federal anti-pollution regulations . |
| 27 | Large numbers of US-owned concerns are setting up manufacturing plants just over the Mexican frontier in order to escape increasingly tough federal anti-pollution regulations . |
| 28 | West Country Living : More chain store links John Dudman on how the supermarkets are branching out west |
| 29 | At present the trusts are paying out dividends earned in 1991 and early 1992 when dividends were still growing . |
| 30 | On the one hand , much empirical evidence seems to point to the fact that fire-cults in which fire-wheels are rolled down hills , thrown into the air , or in which bonfires are kindled on Midwinter 's or Midsummer 's Day all reflect solar symbolism ; the object of these practices being to ensure the return of the sun , or protection against its heat or whatever . |