Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These professional barriers ensured that there would be little interaction even when the disciplines were working on parallel problems . |
| 2 | Sergeant Bramble and Constable Quince very quickly gave up trying to understand what it was that the experts were looking for . |
| 3 | IT WAS a bitterly cold February day and the crowds were swarming over security barriers on the desolate streets of Harlem . |
| 4 | Then the dome was echoing with the last anthem : she was walking out into the September sunshine on João 's arm ; the crowds were cheering in the streets , gasping at the splendour of her dress and showering her with flowers and petals . |
| 5 | The horizons were opening in every direction . |
| 6 | You see nowadays the solicitors are falling over themselves to do the conveyancing . |
| 7 | This appears to create a precedent of joint museum ownership for drawings , which the galleries are solving by means of shared responsibility for conservation and lending policy . |
| 8 | The flames were licking at the window . |
| 9 | The flames were licking at the window . |
| 10 | Experiments illustrated in figure 1 on fires in a storage of goods on pallets in open racks showed that in three minutes after ignition , the flames were growing at a dangerous rate , and that after eight minutes the flames had encompassed the whole height of the racking ( 18 m ) and were producing large volumes of acrid smoke . |
| 11 | It will die out over there and the flames were coming through the bricks were n't it mam ? |
| 12 | The time-pips were sounding on the line , and he added quickly , ‘ Do you want to give me your number ? |
| 13 | The scouts were walking to Chester cathedral for an afternoon service as part of the scouts Service of Praise . |
| 14 | At the end of ‘ The Food of the Gods ’ the giants are fighting against the little people , for freedom . |
| 15 | And then the drawbridge was falling , with a clanking and a whirring of machinery and the light was pouring into the courtyard and the Gnomes were cheering and the giants were nodding to one another , and there was nothing for it but to ride away with Snodgrass , with Balor loping along at their side , with Fenella behind in the hands of the Gruagach . |
| 16 | the shareholders are acting as a group ( eg each has agreed to sell his or her shares if all the others also agree to sell ) ; and |
| 17 | But the signs are encouraging by all accounts . ’ |
| 18 | But we also , I think , all took the view , because that was what all the signs were showing at the time , that the crunch would come later than it did , and I think that was the perceived view of anybody working in Whitehall at that stage . |
| 19 | Next , the freedom the artists were seeking within themselves . |
| 20 | The Guildsmen were wading through the audience , overturning benches and chasing children away with the backs of their hands . |
| 21 | However , in so many cases , the police and the courts are dealing with persistent reoffenders rather than with first-time offenders , for whom a caution or community service would be an appropriate penalty . |
| 22 | This is also known as the purposive approach , since the courts are looking at the purpose for which the Act was passed . |
| 23 | I think it was probably the other day because erm the wa the ducks were swimming on the road at er six o'clock just on the road near the baths |
| 24 | As the ducks were squawking about what they had seen , three tiny shrews scampered from the undergrowth . |
| 25 | And then we used to do erm exercises with er from different areas , they 'd come and attack our area or we 'd come and try and in il infiltrate in their area and er we had , we had a night exercise and we was erm went out Saturday afternoon , we was out all Saturday night and Sunday and on the Sunday mid day we was still er out and we was in the farmyard at the farm at end of Brierley 's Lane by Bell Lane , off Bell Lane , Brierley 's Lane right at other end , we was in their farmyard and their outer buildings and we was str put out on guard duty from the Stafford Road to Broad Lane , and we was protecting that area , they were supposed to be coming from the Cannock area towards us and er we was in the , in the farmyard and course the m muck and stuff and all that out of the farmyard was there and the ducks was wallowing in it . |
| 26 | Wyse Technology found itself a technology playmate in Siemens Nixdorf , having forged a pact some months ago that they 're just getting around to telling us about : Wyse is selling SNI its Intel Corp-based symmetric multi-processing designs and subsystems which the Germans are using in the MX500 superserver line released in Europe and the Far East late last year . |
| 27 | The Germans are going to the US twice this year in June and December , when they will play games against England , Brazil and the US ( twice ) . |
| 28 | By the second half of February the Germans were beginning to be really worried by the advance — although slow — of the Allies and by the strong resistance of the partisans , so they decided to make a deal with the partisan leaders to save their own lives . |
| 29 | In fact the Germans were firing into the air , although we did not realize it at the time , so there were no casualties . |
| 30 | Of course , it was a very nice idea , but I had seen what the Germans were doing with colour television . |