Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detectives working on the case are working on the theory that they died of hypothermia or suffocation or a combination of both . |
| 2 | The purpose of the remainder of this chapter is to analyse the changing structure and composition of the national population , assess the principal dimensions of population redistribution , and examine the impact which both these sources of change are having on the geography of Britain . |
| 3 | most days you 'll find Tony Meek racing his dogs at the Oxford stadium … not tonight … because the speedway machines are there … its a gala night … the top twenty riders from the second division are racing for the Service Master Trophy … |
| 4 | Current advances in graptolite biostratigraphy are leading to the recognition of further subdivisions in the Ordovician and Silurian which provide an accurate calibration for parallel work on acritarchs and chitinozoa . |
| 5 | But both Dr Kohl and Mr Modrow , aware that the hopes of many for reunification are growing by the day , and more quickly than the politicians can accommodate , tried to cool expectations . |
| 6 | Doubts about Communist motives in Spain would have been submerged under the general enthusiasm for the Republic , had not doubts about Soviet Communism been growing at the same time . |
| 7 | HOUSE builders in the North West are looking for the Government to do more to stimulate sales and economic growth . |
| 8 | Deffenbacher 's argument is that those studies which show enhanced memory in arousing circumstances are operating on the ascending portion of the inverted-U function , while those which show impairment are operating on the descending portion of the curve associated with high arousal levels . |
| 9 | Downland Housing Association are building at the Larch Cottage site , Portsmouth Road , while the second site is at Lynchborough Road , Passfield . |
| 10 | Miss Bangholm reports that members of the club are hanging around the hall as girls are leaving and some of them are rather afraid . |
| 11 | The stalwarts of the Hunterston Cycle Club are taking to the road again in the name of charity . |
| 12 | The rugby club are helping with the organisation . |
| 13 | The remains of the old Motherwell car are lying in the inspection pit underneath ! |
| 14 | Both government and opposition are grappling with the awkward consequences of an upsurge of religious tension inspired by militant Hindu claims to a disused Muslim mosque on a site believed to have been Lord Rama 's birthplace . |
| 15 | On the contrary , all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe . |
| 16 | The Regional Secretary 's Department are dealing with the transfer from payroll 51 to payroll 57 and 501 , of some of the DS0 Cleaning and Catering staff . |
| 17 | Postgraduate students who are currently undertaking research in the department are working in the following areas : Modern German Literature and Film , ‘ Wiener Moderne ’ , GDR Literature and Society . |
| 18 | It is strange therefore that the signal box instruments revealed it as clear , the signal must have been at green , or had a heavy weight been lying across the signal wire ? |
| 19 | May I draw to my hon. Friend 's attention a report in the Sunday Express pointing out that paramilitaries convicted of bombing and murder are sheltering in the Republic are drawing more than £2 million per week in dole money and social security , paid for by the British taxpayer , while many would face reconviction if they returned to Ulster ? |
| 20 | Leaders of Britain 's freight industry are calling on the European Commission to help free U K truck drivers trapped by road blocks on the French Spanish border . |
| 21 | Because both sides of the political divide are benefiting from the traffic , the issue is brushed under the carpet . |
| 22 | It is quite possible that the economy may converge to a steady state not characterized by equilibrium , e.g. , where capital and the labour force are growing at the same rate , but there is a constant level of unemployment . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Power stations use up valuable resources and create pollution — but could an environmentally friendly alternative be blowing in the wind ? |
| 25 | Two minutes later , on the concrete of a Royal Air Force aerodrome , the engines of the German bomber were dying on the light west wind . |
| 26 | Thus , in a study by Abel-Smith and Townsend ( 1965 ) , a third of the poor were the aged , and almost half the old-age pensioners in their study were living below the poverty line . |
| 27 | A Steamship Owners ' Mutual Protection and Indemnity Association had been formed as early as 1874 which later became part of a North of England Protecting and Indemnity Association , and as early as 1878 shipowners of the north-east were complaining of the " tyrannical " attempts of a " dictatorial body of unionists " ' to impose demands on the industry , establishing in 1885 a Central Association of Shipowners of Sunderland , Glasgow and Newcastle to put their views to the Royal Commission of 1886 on Chamberlain 's proposed Shipping Bill . |
| 28 | Two NCO drivers from the Field Ambulance were passing through the assembled ranks selling chocolates , buns and cold drinks . |
| 29 | Now , the honey-gold , palm-dotted ramparts and fortifications of Grand Harbour were receding in the distance , the Mediterranean was crystal-clear turquoise beneath them , and the huge arc of the sky seemed to be widening invisible blue arms above the horizon . |
| 30 | When North Harbour were aiming for the top in New Zealand it took four years of struggle — getting beaten by the top provinces — before we managed to make our own mark . |