Example sentences of "are [verb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " 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 | You are to search out the traitor Raphael and , when you find him , kill him or bring him back for me . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ The Klans are toning down the rhetoric to make themselves more palatable to Americans . |
| 8 | The eggs need to be well protected since they are carried on the wind , continually exposed to the sun 's fierce rays , and blown across the sand . |
| 9 | It bursts at internals to release into the atmosphere an enormous number of rusty-red spores which are carried on the breeze to germinate in distant damp timber , starting the process afresh . |
| 10 | The feelings that are carried up the aisle or into the registry office are presumably countless . |
| 11 | Eggs escape under the bursa of the male and are carried up the trachea in the excess mucus produced in response to infection : they are then swallowed and passed in the faeces . |
| 12 | Fran Bennett , CPAG director , suggests both major parties are softening up the public for more means-testing and fewer rights to universal benefits . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 17 | There are other accessories you can use to increase the impact of the picture , including cords , tassels and ribbons that could be added to pictures when they are hung on the wall . |
| 18 | In the dust of the great Ein Helweh Palestinian camp just east of Sidon , cheap copies of Roberts ' prints — of Nablus , of Hebron , of Jericho and Jerusalem — are hung on the cement walls of refugee shacks , behind uncleaned glass , sometimes held in place by Scotch tape and glue . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Obviously , to obtain a five per cent operating profit margin means they are marking up the cost price of products by far more than five per cent . |
| 21 | That is why the opposition parties are turning over the prospect that the prime minister , Mr Turgut Ozal , may impose a head of state from his own conservatives . |
| 22 | That 's why these computerized route-finders are going up the spout and taking the Glories towards Monument Hill . |
| 23 | always spread a and I I was listening to or or during a programme and it said er , we 're always told how firms are going down the shoot ! |
| 24 | At least not when his creations are going down the Colonel 's own digestive tract . ’ |
| 25 | As dozens of pubs go out of business , others are riding out the recession . |
| 26 | As the Venice Biennale approaches its centenary year , political machinations , seemingly so dear to the heart of Italian and particularly Venetian cultural activities , are holding up the appointment of new members of the Management Committee which is responsible for the programme of the Biennale over the next four years . |
| 27 | Two factors are holding back the development of GIS applications . |
| 28 | Convex Computer Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co last week said they are hotting up the alliance that saw Hewlett take a 5% stake in Convex last year with a potentially substantial technology exchange to plug the massively parallel applications gap . |
| 29 | Convex Computer Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co yesterday said that they are hotting up the alliance that saw Hewlett take a 5% stake in Convex last year with a potentially substantial technology exchange to plug the massively parallel applications gap . |
| 30 | She said : ‘ We are honing down the cast in order to develop the story lines in more depth . |