Example sentences of "are [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for them the hollow reply , ‘ What meeting ? ’ when a call is made to check that they are bringing something to the pot luck supper at school that very evening . |
| 2 | We are told nothing about the heir he instituted . |
| 3 | I mean Forest are pulling everybody behind the ball and you know they ca n't just sling the ball through . |
| 4 | The North and central sides , among them Bangor City and Newtown with top reputations earned in English leagues , are facing nothing but the wooden spoon . |
| 5 | It refers to the presence of social groups which are ranked one above the other , usually in terms of the amount of power , prestige and wealth their members possess . |
| 6 | The companies who thought they were buying themselves employees to stack their shelves or deliver mail are getting nothing of the sort . |
| 7 | We are doing nothing of the sort . |
| 8 | It helps to solve our problems with Chrissie and Fred by making it clear that we are doing something about the food costs . |
| 9 | That younger element , are doing something for the local community . |
| 10 | Said Professor Hoskins of the University of Reading : " We know that human activities are doing something to the system but computer models are too crude at present to predict what will happen . " |
| 11 | First he made a gourd spring up to protect Jonah from the sun ( by ‘ gourd ’ we are to understand something like the castor-oil plant or Palma Christi , with its rapid growth and all-sheltering leaves ) ; then , with no more than a wave of the silk handkerchief , he sent a maggot to destroy the said gourd , leaving Jonah painfully exposed to the heat . |
| 12 | We 're not talking of a conversion of ten to fifteen thousand dwellings with erm new building being reduced considerably , we are talking something in the order of magnitude of what has been happening in the past . |
| 13 | People are do something at the end of the training and it focuses your mind to the trainer writing material . |
| 14 | Moreover these different forms of uneven development are constructed one upon the other . |
| 15 | The troubled couple are paid nothing from the Civil List . |