Example sentences of "are [adv] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While most environmental health officers are keenly applying the new regulations , the shortage of staff coupled with the wide range of new products and processes which have to be assessed has resulted in a somewhat irregular interpretation and application of the Act . |
| 2 | This means that we are effectively using the two-phase method , except that , where a choice of variable to enter the basis occurs in Phase I ( and such occurrences are very common ) , the choice is resolved by the true objective function . |
| 3 | The conceptual basis of judicial review , that the courts are thereby enforcing the legislative will by ensuring that the authority remains within the limits of its assigned area , has never provided any sure guide as to the appropriate scope for review . |
| 4 | The motel weekends are slowly changing the basic bloodstock of the parliamentary party . |
| 5 | ‘ In the West we are constantly telling the Third World to save the rain forests — rather hypocritical considering we are not even prepared to replace the tree cover destroyed over the years in Essex . ’ |
| 6 | The judges and commentators are constantly expounding the legal elements of charity . |
| 7 | The eye can not rest on one thing , as in traditional circus , but you are constantly seeking the next thrill . |
| 8 | If you go to those lengths , you are obviously taking a big financial risk . |
| 9 | If you are overweight , but are happy with the exercises you do at least three times per week , then far be it from us to interfere — continue , you are obviously doing a good job ! |
| 10 | The Cairngorm chairlift people are obviously making a great effort to try and limit the damage caused by erosion , by constantly replanting the worn areas with grass seed . |
| 11 | are all doing a futile side-stroke . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's like a holiday camp sometimes and we are all having a good time . |
| 13 | Mum and dad are eagerly awaiting the new arrival , as are nine-year-old Jessica , John , seven , and four-year-old James . |
| 14 | However , the grain of this behavioural notation is unbelievably coarse and one is often surprised by the extent to which two performances of the same written utterance can differ — even when the actors in question are apparently following the same instruction with respect to intonation , facial expression or manual gesture . |
| 15 | Even if you are only seeing a few people there should be someone to greet them on arrival and make them feel they have come to the right place on the right day . |
| 16 | Shop around for a reasonable estimate , or hire a van and the services of some friends and do it yourself , it is much cheaper , and worth while if you are only moving a short distance . |
| 17 | I am sure that you are only feeling a young girl 's modest misgivings at the approach of marriage . |
| 18 | The band are literally raising the ageing singer 's career from the ashes . |
| 19 | The band are literally raising the ageing singer 's career from the ashes . |
| 20 | But , says Pflug , the move away from mainframes in favour of distributed computing environments is forcing change — business professionals are making more and more final information technology decisions , while computing personnel are merely shaping the technical side of the project . |
| 21 | Some vendors are promising that they will provide it on their own , others such as Quark are linking to specific vendors ( Scitex in this case ) while still others such as Aldus are merely providing an open interface to anyone who cares to take their files on board . |
| 22 | They are merely reproducing the same wistfulness and dreamlike melodies of their first album . |
| 23 | Some people worry that feeding the birds is somehow unnatural , but gardens are No more unnatural than much of the British landscape , and the birds which visit our gardens are merely demonstrating the natural behaviour of flocking to exploit the sudden abundance of a source of food , whether it 's a heavy infestation of caterpillars or seeds and nuts put out on the lawn . |
| 24 | First and foremost , we are intentionally considering a limited subset of the potential causes of recent longer-term climate change . |
| 25 | The intake of vitamins and minerals is , if we are eating a healthy well-balanced diet , almost certainly adequate , but how many of us are already eating a healthy , well-balanced diet ? |
| 26 | ‘ It 's about time people started to realise that women are already achieving the highest standards in all aspects of craft skills , ’ said Sui-ming . |
| 27 | Brokers are already forecasting the 1993 pre-tax profits to be between £3.3m and £3.5m . |
| 28 | Three months after they were launched , the new awards are already generating a tremendous amount of interest . |
| 29 | Trials with electronic mail are already proving a big success in the UK . |
| 30 | He 's not impressed with the Lamont-Gregory briquette which he says is not the consistency the British market expects and adds that Indonesia and Brazil are already using a similar technique . |