Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Downland Housing Association are building at the Larch Cottage site , Portsmouth Road , while the second site is at Lynchborough Road , Passfield . |
| 2 | They are helping to move soil into a garden they are building at the school with the help of mums , dads and teachers . |
| 3 | The flaws which they are building into the system ( which even Phil is building into the system ) — the endemic morbidity of man and the lethal hostility of his environment — are not incidental but essential . |
| 4 | If as part of the task you specify the effect the programme is to have on the audience , you are building in the criteria by which that audience can judge the programme and you are giving them a purpose in viewing . |
| 5 | The way those clouds are building in the sky , I ought to drive . |
| 6 | If you try and fudge it and set up three or four , say they can all discuss the same thing , you are building in the ability for major conflicts . |
| 7 | The residents of Unity Flats are shrugging off the stigma of living in what has long been regarded as one of the city 's most undesirable areas . |
| 8 | A NORTH-east farmer wants a few wise men from Scotland to take a behind-the-scenes look at farming in EC member states to see how counterparts are faring with the rules and regulations . |
| 9 | But as yet we 've not had an announcement on those , what those conditions are attaching to the use of the , of the grant . |
| 10 | Workers are risin' against the poverty and 'ardship . |
| 11 | I do believe there is a feeling of real excitement and expectation amongst your generation because of the extraordinary changes we are seeing across the world . |
| 12 | Chairman Trevor Wheatley said yesterday : ‘ The recovery we are seeing in the UK and US is fragile , though our order books are 20pc up on this time last year . |
| 13 | When we discussed it , it became clear that there is a wide spectrum of response to the whole issue of private care , that the response from within the statutory services tends to be one of suspicion , tends to be one of sometimes a fairly moralistic approach and this is quite at odds with the response we are seeing from the government which tends to go to the other end of the spectrum and be promoting private care as the solution to many of the problems of service provision and volume that are being encountered at the moment . |
| 14 | I mean , seeing the amount of kids that do go out there , and the state of the changing rooms that they are using at the moment , I , I think it 's really degrading . |
| 15 | And , even more essential , that the typefaces you are using within the package are available on those systems . |
| 16 | Intel needs to do some stroking among this class of customer even though Intel defenders claim the P5 schematics designers are using in the absence of silicon are so exact they should have little trouble getting up and running and out the door once the chips are delivered . |
| 17 | I think of him sometimes , as the birds are singing in the hedges and the rising sun glints in the windows of houses across the bay . |
| 18 | Two of the most exclusive beers in the world are drawing in the drinkers at the only pub where they 're sold . |
| 19 | On the contrary , we are drawing upon the consensus of unbiased contemporary New Testament scholarship . |
| 20 | With such questions , a major task lies in unpacking the word-play , and making clear the distinctions you are drawing from the formulation of the question . |
| 21 | Sweeping the board by book or by rook The Polgar sisters , who this weekend are competing at the Barbican , are the most remarkable phenomenon in the history of chess . |
| 22 | It also oxygenates the water on warm summer nights or in thundery weather at a time when the fish are competing with the plants for oxygen . |
| 23 | If the seller knows the number of companies who are competing for the order , their likely stances , the criteria used by the buying organisation when deciding between them , the degree of pressure on key members of the decision making unit , and any formula they might use for assessing price acceptability , an accurate assessment of the power balance should be possible . |
| 24 | MORE than 300 Whitbread Inns are competing for the Grants of St James ' Wine Awards . |
| 25 | At least six types of microfloppy , as the discs are called , of varying size and format are competing for the market . |
| 26 | Six countries — Thailand , India Pakistan , Cuba Italy and Belgium — are competing for the site of the $50 million research programme . |
| 27 | In fact , one of the reasons God is so concerned that we do not involve ourselves in premarital and extramarital relations is so that we will never feel we are competing against the skill and ability of another lover . |
| 28 | They will , no doubt , have further struggles when they start a family and more figures are competing in the hierarchy of need . |
| 29 | Both are competing in the Manchester track 's Gorton Cup , and if Pond Tornado repeats its earlier form , his Derby odds could come tumbling down . |
| 30 | on the River Thames tomorrow afternoon … one hundred and nineteen scullers are competing in the Marlow club 's 30th anniversary long distance race … and finally over in Cheltenham the horse with 125 owners … |