Example sentences of "be [v-ing] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although many local authorities in their strategy documents state that they aim first at rehabilitation , I remain unconvinced that they are devoting the same resources in terms of skilled social workers with small caseloads and adequate financial support to natural families , as they do to finding and supporting new families . |
| 2 | You are poisoning the very sources of order and happiness and virtue ; you are tearing up root and branch all relations of families to each other ; you are annulling , as it were , the institution of domestic life decreed by Providence Himself , the wisest and kindest of earthly ordinances , the mainstay of social peace and virtue and therein of national security . |
| 3 | For example , Fielding ( 1982 ) takes the best elements of the three main models : ( a ) the desire to live in a more rural setting ; ( b ) the availability of new jobs in the sunrise industries of the rural areas ; and ( c ) regional planning by governments to argue that the two main factors are first , the development of a post-industrial society where the mobile middle classes are relocating the new industries , and second , the rise of service employment , particularly in the more attractive rural areas of each country . |
| 4 | PS I am attaching the relevant sections of the script |
| 5 | And Petrarch lived quite near here in Avignon , and I am seeing the same cypresses and oleanders … |
| 6 | You can only turn properly if you are using the gybing straps . |
| 7 | In truth the change to the game is subtle rather than sensational and too much fuss has been made when , in fact , some folk are using the new laws as an excuse to disguise their weaknesses . |
| 8 | Most items can be sent in sealed envelopes or packages , but if you are using the Printed Papers service please remember that the packaging needs to be easy to open for Customs examination and to be able to be repacked without additional packaging — the best solution is to use string or plastic tags . |
| 9 | In a survey of 450 top UK companies last year , Touche Ross discovered that although the efficiency of financial consolidation is of key importance to senior management , few finance departments have any objective measure of their performance and know whether they are using the right tools . |
| 10 | We are using the additional resources to excellent effect . |
| 11 | er but if you are actually swimming and you are using the different strokes and so forth , it does use power-wise all the main muscles of the body . |
| 12 | If you are using the pregenerated characters , Dunderl Goldhand will want to destroy the shrine to Slaanesh here ; in this case , a Daemonette will arrive to attack him . |
| 13 | If you are using the pregenerated characters , Erszebet Lauschenberg will receive a sign from Verena that one of these is the brain of the High Priestess she seeks . |
| 14 | If — and only if — you are using the pregenerated characters , then there will be two additional Grimoires here with gold and silver banding . |
| 15 | The three are singing the last bars of a song . |
| 16 | Staff at Corin Medical in Cirencester are producing the different pieces of the artificial hip joint which like lego can be made up in 120 combinations . |
| 17 | we are helping the Amazonian Indians and tribal people in Malaysia in their fight for survival by generating worldwide publicity for their cause , and campaigning to protect their rainforest lands ; |
| 18 | Remember , you are knitting the two thicknesses of the yarn on each stitch , so allowance must be made for the stitch size . |
| 19 | Rauschning also began to realise that Gauleiter Forster had been using the economic reforms initiated by the Party in 1933 to line his own pocket . |
| 20 | Further down the beach , women and children are trolling the same waters with nets collecting coal dust to try to earn enough money to feed their children . |
| 21 | They have the greatest reproductive success and in terms of Darwinian evolution it is Third World rapidly expanding populations which are enjoying the highest levels of reproductive success . |
| 22 | As a result , more than 70 per cent of the population now have a Current Account and are enjoying the many advantages it gives them — cheques , instant cash , Standing Orders and Direct Debits . |
| 23 | The under-17s are catching the senior men in terms of strength in depth , as was proved by Jenny Marie who was doubly unlucky to finish as runner-up twice , in the 800m and 1,500m , both times to Hayley Cole . |
| 24 | If your graphs and charts are showing an overall decrease in weight , then you know you are eating the right amounts . |
| 25 | Now that you are completing the preliminary studies and will shortly be embarking on the more complicated part of the syllabus , I feel that , at this stage , it would be of benefit to give you the following lessons in an endeavour to press home to you the importance and value of your continued perseverance . |
| 26 | Paters at the moment are patting the blubing maters . |
| 27 | We are ensuring that the beef that we sent to St. Petersburg and Murmansk has got through , and we are tackling the remaining problems of distribution in Moscow . |
| 28 | But Moose are weathering the cold winds of Indifference well , chiefly by releasing their best single yet ( ‘ Little Bird ’ ) and a debut album full of interesting moments . |
| 29 | They can cause structural damage and many of the construction companies are employing the specialised services of Rentokil . |
| 30 | Cissie had been stripping the excess leaves from the stems of a bunch of slender white tulips , which she then lovingly arranged one by one in an earthenware vase . |