Example sentences of "[noun pl] [am/are] [v-ing] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | More often than not , the A&R personnel are working to a brief . |
| 2 | Meanwhile the eastern states are sliding towards a budget deficit of DM50 billion this year and many towns there are nearly bankrupt . |
| 3 | Nominal interest rates do count : high rates hurt , for instance , if cash flows are falling in a recession and leaving less available to service debts . |
| 4 | Elsewhere investigations are continuing into a separate security alert in Gloucester City Centre yesterday . |
| 5 | Continuity in marketing can count for a lot , but not if consumer attitudes are going through a sea change , and BMW 's light-footedness in launching the 3-series earned it the brand of the year award for durables . |
| 6 | Everyone appreciates that employers are working in a volatile and sometimes precarious economic environment , and so clearly there will be times when it is not possible to meet pre-set targets on an individual company basis . |
| 7 | the shareholders are acting as a group ( eg each has agreed to sell his or her shares if all the others also agree to sell ) ; and |
| 8 | Institutional shareholders are calling for a change in the trust 's management and an eventual winding up . |
| 9 | The need to assess the likelihood of possible future changes in the climates of the world provides a strong reason for encouraging research on these problems , and is reinforced by the recognition that human activities are developing towards a scale from which significant effects on world climate might arise within the next century … |
| 10 | The musicians are sitting in a row on the edge of the roof , facing inwards . |
| 11 | Calls are growing for a tougher stand against direct labour costs , which amount to about $15 billion a year . |
| 12 | The researchers are looking for a transmissible agent and the search is urgent . |
| 13 | As a result of the pilots the researchers are working on a separate form for children with disabilities . |
| 14 | Students and researchers are mixing in a totally new way and ‘ the intellectual spin-off is already beginning to show ’ . |
| 15 | This definition should be understood as the choreographer 's ability to establish a style of movement through which the audience will feel and understand what the performers are communicating through a particular way of dancing . |
| 16 | Human rights groups are calling for a postmortem to ascertain the cause of his death . |
| 17 | Human rights groups are calling for a postmortem to ascertain the cause of his death . |
| 18 | Both groups are calling for a halt to the planning application until a full hydrological survey has been carried out to check the pond would be safe . |
| 19 | Fruit growers are gathering in a bumper crop of apples . |
| 20 | BARBADIAN cricket fans are calling for a boycott of tomorrow 's historic Test match , not because of any anti-South African sentiment but as a protest over the omission of local fast bowler Anderson Cummins . |
| 21 | Do you think that maybe most of your fans are going through a phase , and that most of them will emerge the other end and leave you behind ? |
| 22 | This may sound a silly question , since this book assumes that its readers are looking for a place to live in the British Isles , but it is more sensible than it sounds . |
| 23 | ‘ All three parties are starting from a strong base . |
| 24 | Where the records have been classified as ‘ real evidence ’ ; eg. when computers are operating in a simple mechanistic way as automatic recording systems , for example an automated radar tracking system and a breath-testing machine , rather than as complex analytical tools ( see The Statute of Liberty [ 1968 ] 2 All ER 195 ) . |
| 25 | Saunders ' goals are working like a Championship charm . |
| 26 | Yeah , but not only that , I mean , they will now all these shops are doing like a mail order |
| 27 | Tetbury 's one and only bookstore is n't stocking it even though nearby shops are heading for a sellout . |
| 28 | The pictures are coming from a satellite , five hundred miles above the earth . |
| 29 | Negotations are proceeding with a view to obtaining grant aid to help with the considerable setting up costs which will be involved and advice taken with regard to design and layout of exhibits . |
| 30 | The wordsmiths who put wooden jokes into his speeches are writing for a man who lacks the essential sense of timing for making them . |