Example sentences of "are [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stars are queueing up for treatment at Holby Hospital — the setting for the controversial BBC series Casualty . |
| 2 | Two cars are drawing up outside Number 17 and quite a lot of people are going in the front door . |
| 3 | David Baker from Mercury Rev is checking out the soon-to-be-signed-to-Geffen St Johnny ; Sonic Youth are hanging out with Cell , no doubt priming the newcomers for their forthcoming Euro jaunt with the Yoof ; and Canadian lungers Sloan fall victim to the complimentary charm of the Lemonheads ' Evan Dando . |
| 4 | But the East Germans , deaf to all advice , are lashing out in fury and bitterness , blaming everyone but themselves for their predicament . |
| 5 | You do not have to be a Marxist to see that the official statistics of unemployment include only those who are signing on at Job Centres and are eligible for benefit . |
| 6 | Banks too are muscling in on insurance , mainly on the life side , to keep customers ' savings ‘ in the family ’ . |
| 7 | And , with this poise in front of the cameras , it surely wo n't be long before they are muscling in on mum and dad . |
| 8 | Further growth of the market is anticipated , perhaps by 30pc again next year , and many of the big players are gearing up for expansion . |
| 9 | Groups of young people are crowding round in front of the soldiers chanting ‘ The army is with us ’ and ‘ No violence ’ . ’ |
| 10 | The bar chart , built up as you go , shows you how you are keeping up to programme and teaches you about the idiosyncrasies of bar charts ! |
| 11 | Joining teddy bears of all shapes , colours and sizes which are flooding in from TV stars and personalities all over the country will be Prime Minister John Major 's very own bear and those of his parliamentary colleagues . |
| 12 | Many other ways of using the STM are pouring out of research laboratories and are likely to make their way to market . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm the one who 's wondering why whites are turning up as zombis — and whites who have no official record , at that . |
| 14 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 15 | The locals are turning back to wildlife and natural resources to survive . |
| 16 | This is the first of Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki 's films to open here , but not the last : two more are lining up for release in the next six months . |
| 17 | And we have not forgotten those of you who are going on to post graduate studies . |
| 18 | and they do some singing and everything and also they give out the bibles to those that are going up to school |
| 19 | The private possessions of Robert Maxwell are going up for auction . |
| 20 | And Mum and Dad are going off on holiday on Saturday , so they wo n't be popping in to visit for a couple of weeks . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We are going out to lunch , ’ Alain informed her , reading her expression with little difficulty . |
| 22 | ’ The preceptor links are going out of phase at random. , Mala , ’ Posi replied . |
| 23 | As a result 5,000 farmers are going out of business every year and the suicide rate for farmers has never been higher . |
| 24 | Farmers are going out of business at the rate of five thousand every year . |
| 25 | I mean they just keep hammering and hammering and more and more are going out of business . |
| 26 | Clearly , no one explanation could cover why we eat cows but not cats ; why big game hunting is the traditional pursuit of the wealthy ; why furs are going out of fashion ; why sexual slang employs so many animal and eating metaphors ; why customary cannibalism is seldom if ever authenticated ; why we worry so much more about high fat meats than about eating cheese ; why so many religious sects espouse vegetarianism ; why burger bars have been redecorating with pastel colours ; why the Flintstones barbecue dinosaur steaks ; why we eat beef rather than cow ; why businessmen might eat steak tartare at a negotiating lunch ; and why meat is said to give men aggression , strength , or heterosexual virility . |
| 27 | Teachers are going back to university to learn how to teach the National Curriculum . |
| 28 | More 16-year-olds are staying on at school than ever before — more than 50 per cent . |
| 29 | And that 's hampering the whole development process because it 's high , high wages , high wages creates migration and the whole resource allocation reflects in the economies er are disrupted and because people are moving out of agriculture because they ca n't make any money from agriculture they think they can make some money in industry like agriculture itself is being starved of capital and er so it hampers the development process , I mean it 's a complicated business but er there may well be some , some sort of strands of sense that we can draw out of this , one of which may be well if the government sectors are too large in these countries essentially it does n't matter who owns these companies whether it 's , they were privately owned or government , erm if they are inefficient they are inefficient |
| 30 | ‘ I see a growing demand for the Longhorn from Continental farmers who are moving out of dairying and are looking for easily kept beef cattle that can thrive outdoors all year round , ’ says Mr Close . |