Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] are [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , Mr Giles , what I am disgruntled about is the lousy deal you are getting for £26 million or more . |
| 2 | There is , though , a danger of doing an experiment when you have already decided on the result you are looking for . |
| 3 | But with the arms industry you are talking about very powerful people — both inside and outside the country . |
| 4 | It is the future you are walking to . |
| 5 | Right bear in mind you are getting over a cold . |
| 6 | It is possible to use a spare piece of velvet as a substitute so that the pile of the fabric you are working on sinks into the pile of the spare piece underneath . |
| 7 | One way of finding applicants of a suitable calibre is to use an agency which specializes in the type of employee you are looking for , and which , if it is a good agency , will already have done some preliminary sorting to weed out those who are entirely unsuitable . |
| 8 | Ten years after the discovery of AIDS we are entering into a new era in the global pandemic , with growing concern about our ability to confront it successfully . |
| 9 | Which , of course , momentarily , it did : ‘ Two weeks , ’ she boldly and brightly continued , breaking the trance like stillness with a frisky movement of her head and braceleted right arm , ‘ yes , two weeks , in Kyoto and Osaka , it should be quite fascinating , quite an opportunity to see a completely different culture , of course it relates to our own work at the Institute in a very particular way , it seems that there has been a considerable amount of research done in the department we are visiting on the problems of adoption and stepparents . |
| 10 | The market for New York real estate is very soft , compared with the rent we are paying for our Tokyo gallery ’ . |
| 11 | In this chapter we are dealing with a set of phenomena for which there is not a clearly identified name and which therefore presents different faces in different theories . |
| 12 | ( Since we have taken the concentration diffusivity to be effectively zero , this is sufficient to give the effect we are looking for ) . |
| 13 | In the long term we are looking for a measure of the relationship between debt financing and equity financing . |
| 14 | In this condition we are talking of a with reserve VFR range of 550 nm at 75% power or 630 nm at 65% . |
| 15 | The repertoire of the Vanbrugh Quartet stretches from Haydn to the present day , and that span is reflected in the programme they are playing for the Festival . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , the quality of golf from Cheshire 's youngsters when they only lost 9–8 to the experienced Bromborough seniors was testimony to the coaching they are receiving from the county 's two professional teachers Alan Thompson ( Heswall ) and Peter Barber ( Didsbury ) . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , the quality of golf from Cheshire 's youngsters when they only lost 9–8 to the experienced Bromborough seniors was testimony to the coaching they are receiving from the county 's two professional teachers Alan Thompson ( Heswall ) and Peter Barber ( Didsbury ) . |
| 18 | ( a ) it validates the study they are doing by confirming that the language is used in the real world ; |
| 19 | If three or more of the above statements regularly apply to you , you probably need to think about your emotions and the effect they are having on the other aspects of your life . |
| 20 | If someone else is annoying us either deliberately or unconsciously , then we have to talk to them to explain the effect they are having on us . |
| 21 | Do n't start telling someone about the effect they are having on you when you are angry or feeling over-emotional . |
| 22 | If only those people realised the harm they are doing to their health by not allowing themselves to show what they really feel — sometimes not even admitting those feelings to themselves — perhaps they would unbend a little . |
| 23 | How will the hard men of the IRA react , when they hear at first hand what harm they are doing to everything they say they stand for ? |
| 24 | The trick is to find a feed that your horse enjoys and which provides him with all the nutrients he requires to do the work you are asking of him . |
| 25 | In this mode of organising an essay , you divide the issue you are addressing into conflicting positions , or points of view , or sides of an argument . |
| 26 | Some clubs are better than others , not all are interested in competition obedience , so if this is where your ambitions lie , make sure that the club you join is the type you are looking for . |
| 27 | The length of time spent stretching depends on the sport you are training for and the degree of flexibility you wish to attain . |
| 28 | By signalling clearly the significance of the ideas you present — and the attitude you are adopting towards them — you enable your reader to follow the essay as a coherent and developing debate , in which the generalisations and conclusions you finally draw will seem reasonable and justified . |
| 29 | They will ask you for a full statement of the complaint including the amount of compensation you are looking for and all the relevant evidence . |
| 30 | We find it 's also useful back information , because they will be able to act on one client and has applications for proposal we are writing for another client later on so we can use as references refer to this information . |