Example sentences of "are [v-ing] in the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If as part of the task you specify the effect the programme is to have on the audience , you are building in the criteria by which that audience can judge the programme and you are giving them a purpose in viewing . |
| 2 | I think of him sometimes , as the birds are singing in the hedges and the rising sun glints in the windows of houses across the bay . |
| 3 | Two of the most exclusive beers in the world are drawing in the drinkers at the only pub where they 're sold . |
| 4 | The heavy makeup melting even in the air-conditioning , the legless beggar who sleeps under the office porch and cleans their shoes in gratitude , the slums you can not observe because no roads go through the swamps and whose inhabitants do not exist for the State because the census officials can not reach them , the bomb-carriers serving as flower-pots , the boys selling themselves to the rich English ex-public schoolboys , the girls selling themselves to the fat German tourists , the police raping the boys and the girls they are protecting in the police-stations , the Committee officers boasting to Kate about the elegant jerk-offs in the massage parlours , their ever-decorative ever-bored wives boasting to Kate about their jewellery , the Thai girls saving up for eye and breast jobs , the luxury hotels where the high-class white whores hang out , the students shot by the military during a demonstration against the army regime , the girl students daring for the first time to stay out at night on the streets to picket , the crushing of strikes with bullets and beatings , the barring of political books in the Committee library , the anti-Communist adverts punctuating the Western films on TV . |
| 5 | Couples at their pursuits are laughing in the lanes . |
| 6 | They are painting in the gaps of a ‘ fuller ’ life which was defined originally by nineteenth century European humanist culture : work , self-education , rest and occasional play . |
| 7 | Pigeons are purling in the trees . |
| 8 | What impact does it have on the tenants who are living in the flats ? |
| 9 | Yeah because I do n't think anything will will work unless it 's what the people who are living in the circumstances and living in the situation erm , if it 's not going to relevant to their lives then , you 're wasting the money . |
| 10 | ‘ I warn you , major , you may think you are acting in the interests of your men , but all you are doing is ruining your own career . ’ |
| 11 | Other firms are waiting in the wings , ready to step in with their own bids for Landsat . |
| 12 | He 'll prove himself the best fighter in the world because the WBC 's main contender Tony Tucker and WBO champion Mike Moorer , a really dangerous customer , are waiting in the wings . |
| 13 | At the top of Division Two are East Down who are waiting in the wings , well clear of second placed North Down . |
| 14 | Lee Ellison , Lee Tucker , Simon Shaw and Richard Cooper are waiting in the wings . |
| 15 | Welsh international Pascoe is unsettled at Roker and Stoke City are waiting in the wings if Sunderland drop their original asking price of £500,000 . |
| 16 | Welsh international Pascoe is unsettled at Roker and Stoke City are waiting in the wings if Sunderland drop their original asking price of £500,000 . |
| 17 | Mr Khasbulatov , the Congress Speaker , who is Mr Yeltsin 's main rival , seems to think in these terms , but more extreme nationalists are waiting in the wings who have argued for the reassertion of Russian power not only in the former Soviet Union but in Eastern Europe as well . |
| 18 | Preliminary results have confirmed that plates are moving in the directions , and at the rates , indicated by already acquired geophysical data . |
| 19 | Even when people are sitting in the chairs I think I could push them over , and bigger things too , much bigger things than chairs and tables … |
| 20 | What columns are emerging in the sentences ? |
| 21 | The SEC and CFTC are fighting in the courts over which should regulate ‘ stock-basket ’ products , new financial instruments with a cash security and a futures contract . |
| 22 | ‘ Nogai and Jotan are fighting in the stables , ’ Sidacai said . |
| 23 | But Whittingham countered : ‘ It 's got nothing to do with elegance if you are putting in the goals . |
| 24 | Tiki Kyte in the front and Angie Butler at the back are putting in the miles around the country lanes of Oxfordshire . |
| 25 | According to UNEP 's figures , desertification is taking as much land out of agricultural use as exploiters of one kind or another are clearing in the rainforests : |
| 26 | And so the ASEAN-4 are following in the tigers ' footsteps . |
| 27 | If we 're going to go in and make a positive impact in certain parts of the region , erm then both my staff and myself and our colleagues who are working in the arts in the region have got to pull even harder together to make sure that we can make the partnership between us bureaucrats and the artist really be as effective as possible for the broadest range of the community . |