Example sentences of "are [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present , local authorities are building not for the poorest , nor for the slum-dweller , but mainly for those better off . |
| 2 | At least one top left-hander in the top six looks a must to help combat Warne 's leg-spin-and the odds on David Gower returning are shortening almost by the hour . |
| 3 | As you 'll have heard , bass makers Warwick are branching out into the area of specialised bass amplification . |
| 4 | Wales welcome their arch-humiliators with open jaws , the scent of an overdue kill growing in nostrils that are flaring again under the inspirational coaching of Alan Davies . |
| 5 | Ironically Pembroke , the most recently developed area , where today new routes are tumbling out of the sky as fast as the climbers , has become the place where descriptions — starred pitches probably excluded — still offend mightily under the grade descriptions act . |
| 6 | But now other countries , particularly Korea and Japan , are competing successfully with the result that Britain and Clydeside have fewer orders . |
| 7 | In Britain in nineteen ninety three we are hanging on to the remains of our welfare state by our fingertips . |
| 8 | Richard Spink , of the Citizens Advice Bureaux , said : ‘ Thousands are hanging on by the skin of their teeth . |
| 9 | Kurdish people are hanging on in the northern part of Iraq , desperately in need of support and aid that must come to them before a harsh winter sets in . |
| 10 | I hang my coat up and start to shout and tell those who are hanging around in the corridor to get outside until the bell goes . |
| 11 | Swingbeat New Editioners Bell Biv Devoe are hanging out in the lounge telling stories of how the helicopter in their latest video toppled off a windy roof . |
| 12 | We are touching here on the sensitive area of competitive tendering and of privatisation . |
| 13 | " Another fashion we are stamping out on the plantation , Auguste , is Bolshevism , " he said , leaning earnestly towards the recruiter . |
| 14 | They 've made him lie with his hands behind his head , which is a trick they probably picked from a Miami Vice afternoon repeat , except it looks stupid when the guy 's hairy legs are sticking out from the tail of his shirt . |
| 15 | Casual work is growing most rapidly in the service and retail sectors but even traditional manufacturing companies are catching on to the trend . |
| 16 | Bookmakers Ladbrokes are catching up with the odds on races on four wheels instead of four legs and offering odds on Senna ( 11–8 ) and Prost ( 7–4 ) for the world championship during the week the cars were being loaded for the opening grand prix in Phoenix . |
| 17 | X-Windows technology suppliers are bandying together as the X Industry Association to promote X at the behest of the X Business Group . |
| 18 | It might be that your ambitions are seriously flawed and you are preaching only to the converted . |
| 19 | Piece by small technical piece , these strategies are eating away at the consensus that originally made OS/2 seem a certainty as the computing world 's next-generation technical standard . |
| 20 | The growing demands and applications being made of plastics are filtering through to the additive market , requiring them to be constantly updated and made more efficient , and thus leading to higher prices , explained the report . |
| 21 | Such restraining views are typical of many that are fully justified by the emphasis upon process studies that characterized the 1960s and 1970s and led to smaller investment of resources in historical studies and to the fear that process studies will not profitably link back with chronological ones — in fact there are many indications that such links are happening again including the way in which physical geographers who have been mainly concerned with processes and modelling are moving towards evolution . |
| 22 | Such things are happening all over the country . |
| 23 | Current members seem satisfied that they are receiving good value for money , and are signing up for the second membership year which starts in May . |
| 24 | One or two preliminary studies have suggested that these changes are occurring unevenly across the country , but as yet there is little substantive research into this issue , even though it has been stressed as a priority question by the TUC itself . |
| 25 | Zapp is the supreme professional , who embodies , albeit comically , those ideals of professionalism that have long been dominant in the North American academy and are becoming so in the British . |
| 26 | Thankfully , some Scottish firms are muscling in on the act . |
| 27 | As a collective , people are contributing financially to the installation of new tube wells . |
| 28 | New opportunities are opening up in the near future which you must be calm enough to accept . |
| 29 | Now that new possibilities are opening up in the Balkans , they will modify this . |
| 30 | We are pressing ahead with the Birmingham northern relief road and western orbital route . |