Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The site was uncovered by Thames Water engineers , who are building a water treatment pipeline . |
| 2 | The site was uncovered by Thames Water engineers , who are building a water treatment pipeline . |
| 3 | We are building a $50-million isomerisation unit at our Castellon refinery to produce more unleaded motor spirit . |
| 4 | Distillers MG and AGA Gas are building an air separation plant near Sheffield . |
| 5 | If you are using a question sheet with space for percentage judgements on various topics make sure you have filled it in so that you can later compare candidates on all the headings . |
| 6 | If you act for a mortgagee on such a purchase of unregistered land , you will again need a certified copy of the mortgage document ; so be wise in time and have a spare carbon or print ( if you are using a building society or other printed form ) prepared when engrossing . |
| 7 | If you are using a removal firm ask them to provide tea-chests for all the small items , and they will pack them for you . |
| 8 | Kneel down to one side of your partner ( or stand if you are using a massage couch ) . |
| 9 | Once you have worked out the phonemic system of the language , if you are using a card file , work systematically through it , changing all phonetic transcriptions into phonemic ones . |
| 10 | If you are using a Passap/Pfaff machine , you do n't even need to ‘ translate ’ a two colour design for double jacquard but can use an ordinary Fair Isle card or sheet ( you manual tells you how ) . |
| 11 | THOUSANDS of women are using a washing machine that could kill , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 12 | If you are using a pressure cooker , steam for 30 mins then cook for 2 hrs under 15 lb pressure . |
| 13 | If you are using a PostScript printer with ROMs containing version 47 or later then you can get halfs , quarters and threequarters fractions by typing the ANSI codes ; 188 , 189 , 190 . |
| 14 | ( If you are using a table top , cut holes in the baize covering the table to feed the wires through and keep them tidy . ) |
| 15 | These rooms are nothing but a dangerous hazard for the adventurers , and best avoided , unless you are using an adventure theme which forces them to enter these terrains to regain some lost object or person ( see Adventures in Castle Drachenfels ) . |
| 16 | If you are using an extension flex reel , always uncoil it fully to prevent it from overheating . |
| 17 | The family are maintaining a bedside vigil for their son who suffered serious head injuries in the attack . |
| 18 | How can the Government conceivably justify the untruth of claiming that they are maintaining an aid programme when , according to their own figures , they have halved that provided by Labour ? |
| 19 | Elements within the media , the entertainment industry , academia , and the Democrat Party are waging a guerilla war against American values . |
| 20 | ‘ I am transmitting an instruction subset to the computer on the communications satellite , ’ said the Thing . |
| 21 | Russians are enjoying a reading boom following the collapse of the Soviet order and the best-sellers are hard-boiled thrillers by hard-boiled writers like Mickey Spillane , Raymond Chandler and Dashiel Hammett . |
| 22 | North Sea oil and gas are enjoying a record expansion thanks to our policies of deregulation and low taxation . |
| 23 | On Sunday , the archaeology students are bringing a JCB earthmover to Clark 's Yard to make a preliminary search for medieval artefacts . |
| 24 | Eileen , the class teacher , is working with a group of boys who are inventing an adventure story about the castle they have just constructed together . |
| 25 | I am using a pitching wedge in these photos and I suggest you do , too . |
| 26 | The Serbs and all those are signing a peace agreement . |
| 27 | Often under pressure of numbers , urban schools are adopting a shift system only too common in Asia and Latin America , but a new feature in African primary schools . |
| 28 | This approach , which requires special sales and maintenance centres , is obsolescent now that computers are becoming a consumer item . |
| 29 | With scarcely a consumer item worthy of the name to buy in the shops , and with a rouble in their pockets that loses value by the week , Soviet citizens are staging a gold rush . |
| 30 | and they are excepting a lump sum from the Government and they 're going to manage themselves and make a going concern of it as a business and any profits they get will go back to that hospital , well the community unit are opting out as well , they 're hoping to opt out , but if Labour get in , they 're gon na do away with all that and they want to undo all the one 's that have opted out , I mean I du n no how the hell they 're gon na do it |