Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE in County Durham are stepping up the fight against crime after a wide ranging shake-up in senior personnel . |
| 2 | It might be very hard for Ireland to get five on the team , but the way things are shaping up the selectors will probably not care where the players come from . |
| 3 | We also pledge that when we are drawing up the membership of the commission we shall take into account his earlier suggestions about widening the membership . |
| 4 | The usual south-east Londoners are hanging about the bus stop . |
| 5 | Ratners marketing director Simon de Mille says : ‘ We are speeding up the process . |
| 6 | De Burgh is speaking us very fairly and friendly , but both his hands are gathering up the borders round us . |
| 7 | Gallimard , meanwhile , are bringing out the correspondence between Picasso and Apollinaire , a monograph on Masson by Bernard Noël , and a study of Leonardo and Titian by David Rosand , provisionally entitled La trace de l'artiste . |
| 8 | In the former , all of X , Y , and Z are shown — the relationships between their changes are illustrated and one could estimate from it the ways in which the various terms in the equations are bringing about the changes . |
| 9 | ‘ The Klans are toning down the rhetoric to make themselves more palatable to Americans . |
| 10 | Fran Bennett , CPAG director , suggests both major parties are softening up the public for more means-testing and fewer rights to universal benefits . |
| 11 | Ranchers are tearing down the rainforests to make hamburgers . |
| 12 | Swap too soon and the program takes over and performs some miracle that pulls the ass of the Despot you just abandoned out of the fire and next thing you know the secret police are banging down the doors and hauling you and your family off into the night and oblivion ; the machine thereupon promptly declares itself the winner and it 's back to that fucking cave again . |
| 13 | And Swindon are bouncing up the table into third now . |
| 14 | Small wonder that green products , halfway genuine or frankly fake , are filling up the supermarket shelves . |
| 15 | Our eyes , legs , and even our voice act as though we are living out the dream . |
| 16 | THIS is the most advanced operating theatre in Europe , equipped with life-saving devices that are pushing back the frontiers of medical science . |
| 17 | Increasingly , however , bankers are pushing back the limits of technology-inspired redesign . |
| 18 | Fundamentally , comparisons crucify Eugenius in the sense that Pavement , Mercury Rev , Unrest et al are pushing out the boat , the train and any passing planes , while Eugenius , erm , are n't . |
| 19 | The Sunderland 76ers , who are surging up the Carlsberg League table , almost came a cropper at the Granby Halls . |
| 20 | After all , British taxpayers are picking up the £60 million bill and we ought to be told a lot more about why it happened and why so much damage was caused . |
| 21 | Governments are picking out the bits of the plan they do not like . |
| 22 | I despise the stupidity of those painters who defended the removal of ‘ Guernica ’ to its new air-conditioned penthouse because , in setting such a precedent , they are passing up the opportunity of bequeathing their own works to the Prado . |
| 23 | We 're building up the crockery . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're bringing out the mule in me , Victor . |
| 25 | When you 're drawing up the timetable right at the beginning there is no reason why you can not fix your planning meeting dates , and stick pretty closely to them . |
| 26 | They 're , I tell you where they are it 's that row just as you 're climbing up the Daisy Hill , before you get to the |
| 27 | Yes , very good , we 're climbing up the league now , week by week . |
| 28 | I , I erm , I was off the west co er on a holiday to the west coast of Ireland and we erm we 're driving down the west coast and there was like some rocks and everything about , so we stopped and , you know , I looked by a rock pools or something , and there 's this and the rock pool is like mini-swimming baths , they were , you know , probably |
| 29 | As for the Multiple sclerosis sufferers at Didcot ; they believe there 's enough evidence to give credibility to their treatment , so they 're keeping up the pressure both inside and outside the chamber . |
| 30 | Lisabeth and Fenella took the left one ( ‘ Fenella , you 're steaming up the glass ! ’ ) and I took the right . |