Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least one top left-hander in the top six looks a must to help combat Warne 's leg-spin-and the odds on David Gower returning are shortening almost by the hour . |
| 2 | Wales welcome their arch-humiliators with open jaws , the scent of an overdue kill growing in nostrils that are flaring again under the inspirational coaching of Alan Davies . |
| 3 | But now other countries , particularly Korea and Japan , are competing successfully with the result that Britain and Clydeside have fewer orders . |
| 4 | We are touching here on the sensitive area of competitive tendering and of privatisation . |
| 5 | X-Windows technology suppliers are bandying together as the X Industry Association to promote X at the behest of the X Business Group . |
| 6 | It might be that your ambitions are seriously flawed and you are preaching only to the converted . |
| 7 | Piece by small technical piece , these strategies are eating away at the consensus that originally made OS/2 seem a certainty as the computing world 's next-generation technical standard . |
| 8 | Such restraining views are typical of many that are fully justified by the emphasis upon process studies that characterized the 1960s and 1970s and led to smaller investment of resources in historical studies and to the fear that process studies will not profitably link back with chronological ones — in fact there are many indications that such links are happening again including the way in which physical geographers who have been mainly concerned with processes and modelling are moving towards evolution . |
| 9 | Such things are happening all over the country . |
| 10 | One or two preliminary studies have suggested that these changes are occurring unevenly across the country , but as yet there is little substantive research into this issue , even though it has been stressed as a priority question by the TUC itself . |
| 11 | Zapp is the supreme professional , who embodies , albeit comically , those ideals of professionalism that have long been dominant in the North American academy and are becoming so in the British . |
| 12 | As a collective , people are contributing financially to the installation of new tube wells . |
| 13 | We are pressing ahead with the Birmingham northern relief road and western orbital route . |
| 14 | It is the fourth day of the month of June , and HARRY and PHIL are walking together in the garden of HARRY 'S house . |
| 15 | OLD HABITS are dying hard in the Eurobond market where two months have now elapsed since leading banks implemented a radical change in the way they organise the selling of new issues to investors . |
| 16 | And most of us have a general sense that things are pretty gloomy for people in the Third World : we might remember that Sudanese women must walk hours in search of firewood , that Brazilian peasants are still going hungry , that children are dying all over the world of something as simple and easily treatable as diarrhoea . |
| 17 | In parenthesis I should say that I am passing quickly over the significance of these four levels of understanding . |
| 18 | As we near the end of the 20th century our horizons must extend well beyond our own national frontiers , to our new relationships which are developing fast in the European Community and to our obligations and opportunities in the exciting , but often perilous circumstances of the post Cold War world . |
| 19 | , Small birds , including great tits and bluetits , are unable to rear so many young because the caterpillars on which they depend are developing faster in the warmer summers . |
| 20 | Overseas Groups would publicise their plans for future visitors as at present at the annual meeting in January or February of each year and perhaps circulate how those plans are developing midway through the year for peoples information . |
| 21 | He continued : ‘ I am looking forward to the next Labour government throwing out the Tory anti-union laws and giving working people the protection that they need to conduct legitimate industrial action . |
| 22 | SIR — As director of a company which supplies market research data to the pharmaceutical industry in the Republic of Ireland , I am looking forward to the forthcoming explanations from United Kingdom opinion poll organisations . |
| 23 | Souness said : ‘ I am looking forward to the season . |
| 24 | I am looking forward to the move . ’ ’ |
| 25 | He said : ‘ I am looking forward to the rally . |
| 26 | I am looking forward to the trip , ’ said Helen , who is a Sales System Secretary in the Sales Operations department . |
| 27 | He says ; I am looking forward to the move . |
| 28 | ‘ It is a good set-up and I am looking forward to the challenge , ’ said O'Brien , who will be taking his first managerial role at non-league level after many years in coaching jobs with Marine , South Liverpool , Northwich Victoria and Warrington . |
| 29 | But I am looking forward to the first leg . |
| 30 | A grateful Hankin said : ‘ We have a mountain to climb , but I am looking forward to the challenge . ’ |