Example sentences of "are [adv] [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are secure in their roles and the young are generally simply marking time until they step into the marriage shoes waiting for them . |
| 2 | It would be perfectly reasonable to think of pitch as ranging instead from ‘ light ’ to ‘ heavy ’ , for example , or from ‘ left ’ to ‘ right ’ , and people who have difficulty in ‘ hearing ’ intonation patterns are generally only having difficulty in relating what they hear ( which is the same as what everyone else hears ) to this ‘ pseudo-spatial ’ representation . |
| 3 | They are not even taking enforcement order now . |
| 4 | So we , we are not just creating capitalism per se we are building in that direction er but there will be elements of socialism there which we can then build on and take us forward . |
| 5 | But these changes are not just taking place at regional level . |
| 6 | When older people think of the past they are not just taking stock of their lives but trying to decide what to do with the time that they have left , and trying to do so in relation to concluding or making sense of what has gone before . |
| 7 | These firms are not just saving cash . |
| 8 | We are not just talking power-dressing for women ; Armani makes men look even better than the fairer sex in a way that 's so thoroughly macho it 's no wonder the world 's aggro merchants have taken him to their hearts as eagerly as Hollywood 's glitterati . |
| 9 | As general manager David Lynch stated , ‘ We are not just selling air purifiers , but ensuring a healthy indoor environment . |
| 10 | This group are not currently paying rent or rates to a private landlord or the Council , so can not currently apply for help . |
| 11 | Estates Services are not only providing accommodation for AEA staff , at Harwell they also have some unofficial tenants — a family of little owls . |
| 12 | The situation still exists to-day in the 1980s but there is a more flexible and liberal attitude and deaf teachers of the deaf are once more gaining teaching appointments . |
| 13 | However smaller societies are now also showing interest in this new instrument . |
| 14 | He attributes this decline to the fact that students are now often entering university " from homes with no tradition of culture or learning " . |
| 15 | We are now routinely using LS-PCR for sex determination and are exploring its application to other situations such as the diagnosis of infectious agents where it is useful to simultaneously amplify both specific and arbitrarily primed DNA fragments either for the purposes of generating a control or for extending the amount of information gained from the amplification . |
| 16 | Many of the kids who are out there making music do n't necessarily want a record deal . |
| 17 | As noted earlier in this chapter , and by many authors , including Kanter ( 1983 ) , an attempt to change basic ideologies/schemas of multiple parties is more likely to be successful in times of crisis when it becomes obvious that traditional modes of operation are no longer achieving success . |
| 18 | THOSE keen environmentalists , Richard Branson and Sir James Goldsmith , are no longer seeing eye to eye . |
| 19 | The homes are no longer facing closure . |
| 20 | Seven months on , Ford people are admitting as much , just as the clever among them are no longer feigning surprise at our conclusions . |
| 21 | The wife reveals that he and her yuppie husband are no longer having sex ; only gradually does she learn that his potency is being energetically drained by her own nymphomane sister . |
| 22 | This is no ordinary Museum — Not another Military Museum — Not a glass show case — it is a series of reconstructed scenes using movement , sound , lighting , smells , even smoke generators to make you feel you are actually there taking part . |
| 23 | I and the Thomas boy are very slowly making way . |