Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine how it feels ( if you are the incumbent MP ) to know that , that very morning , thousands of people are devoting their whole attention to getting rid of you . |
| 2 | I think it is a pity that so many anglers are devoting their whole fishing careers to the one species . |
| 3 | There is probably an equal number of people , for example , who think that the less able have a poor deal , and that the system should be geared more towards improving their lot , and on the other hand of those who think that it is the most able who suffer , and that we are wasting our educational resources unless we tilt the system towards them . |
| 4 | There can be little doubt that we are seeing their real diversions , that these are their own instruments and the clothes they would really have worn . |
| 5 | Ever seeking perfection , Oxford this year are using their new training centre . |
| 6 | The shareholders are thereby given the power to judge for themselves whether the directors are using their managerial powers for their own benefit at the expense of the company and if this is so to veto the transaction or at least hold the director liable for any profits thereby made . |
| 7 | It will also help you to keep track of how they are using their free time |
| 8 | The series was scheduled before the current ‘ Cop Killer ’ controversy , and once again Warners are using their considerable muscle to promote their man : HBO is owned by Time-Warner . |
| 9 | For the bride , particularly if they are using her old bedroom , this probably means throwing out her posters of Mel Gibson et al , consigning her huge collection of cuddly toys to the attic and getting rid of the pink frilly duvet . |
| 10 | Her knickers are hobbling her skinny legs where I abandoned them . |
| 11 | If your father dies and you are helping your widowed mother with these matters , you can assure her that not only will she not lose her own retirement pension , but that it may be paid at an increased rate after her husband 's death . |
| 12 | We are maintaining our successful record of licensing modern technology to other companies around the world . |
| 13 | You are maintaining your mental defences well . |
| 14 | While the adults are enjoying their special Christmas drinks with the celebration meal , you could be drinking delicious Louisiana Lemonade , made with frozen raspberries . |
| 15 | ‘ You are enjoying our Russian winter ? ’ |
| 16 | Psychobiology is particularly exciting at the moment because advances in instrumentation are bringing us new ways of studying the brain while areas like artificial intelligence are providing new ways of thinking about how it might work as the ‘ organ of behaviour ’ . |
| 17 | Then we are bringing our past experiences and present interests to bear on what we read ; in short , we are actively involving ourselves in reading , at last able to comprehend what the text means to us , and what it can do to and for us . |
| 18 | ‘ Sales are holding up extremely well and people are realising what good value the product is , ’ added Mr Sabini . |
| 19 | Four hundred soldiers are completing their final training before a six month tour of duty in Bosnia and Croatia . |
| 20 | I 'm not sure that withholding diplomatic recognition is the best way to approach that , after all diplomatic recognition is concerned really with the effective control of territory and things like that rather than with moral principles , however , I think that er , when the Soviet Republics are signing their new Union Treaty or Commonwealth Treaty or whatever it 's going to be called by that time , this question should be amongst the most important to be tackled there , that 's to say the rights of ethnic minorities living in Republican Territories , that they should have the right to educate their children in their own language , that they should have the right to their own religion and so on and so forth . |
| 21 | I am launching my new sport soon in a blaze of publicity . |
| 22 | They want to assert that homosexual relationships are just as valid as heterosexual ones and that it is perfectly ‘ natural ’ for some people to be homosexual if their inclination is in that direction and that those who profess distaste for homosexuality are denying them human rights . |
| 23 | Oxford City are opening their new ground at marston … with a local derby … |
| 24 | Oxford City are opening their new ground at marston … with a local derby … |
| 25 | Thoughts of hell flames are blighting your young life . |
| 26 | ‘ They are protecting their miserable skins while Ireland falls further into my grasp . ’ |
| 27 | But new rules for NHS dentists are delaying her new set and Ivy can only take liquids . |
| 28 | They are interrupting my fixed gaze into the third ring of the electric fire , or my autistic pacing around the living room , as I try to determine whether the print that I thought was beautiful is in fact so vulgar that it is lying in wait to expose me to ridicule . |
| 29 | The Stars are basing their future success on home grown talent . |
| 30 | According to yesterday 's report , the man has decided to come forward because the gang has told him they are ending his regular cash payments , which he used to collect in London . |