Example sentences of "are [v-ing] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might like to consider how these personal qualities are developing as a side-effect to your health programme . |
| 2 | the shareholders are acting as a group ( eg each has agreed to sell his or her shares if all the others also agree to sell ) ; and |
| 3 | Success rates for reversals are improving as a result of new and delicate surgical techniques which are only available in some specialist centres . |
| 4 | Fish-eating birds are being destroyed to reduce competition for fish stocks , whilst many ground birds such as the corncrake and bustard are declining as a result of major changes in agriculture . |
| 5 | We have got to be spot on with the depth to which we are digging — too much and the water will be too deep and the reeds will not grow — but I think the new reeds will be good and strong , not the spindly rubbish we are getting as a result of the dry conditions , ’ said Mr Macklin . |
| 6 | Today the papers , here and in South Africa , are hailing as a breakthrough the talks of Mr. Vorster and President Tolbert in Liberia . |
| 7 | Mr Andrews believes they have been accepted this year because they are running as a family team . |
| 8 | It is also hoped it will avoid the much faster wheelchairs catching the elite women runners — who start five minutes earlier — at an early point where they are running as a group and hard to pass . |
| 9 | In The Country : The boys from the black stuff Sara Jackson sees how charcoal burners are surviving as a symbol of traditional methods of woodland conservation |
| 10 | Many wives and mothers are suffering as a result . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Britain has the second highest level of taxes on alcohol in the EC and many are suffering as a result , ’ she said . |
| 12 | What would the Minister say to the pensioners outside that one area in Scotland who are suffering as a result of the bitterly cold weather and who can not receive payment if they are on income support ? |
| 13 | Market towns are suffering as a result , but Kington is fighting back , by going hi-tec faster than any other community in Europe . |
| 14 | There is , in any event , growing evidence that all other public services are suffering as a result of the concentration of the Scottish Office budget on road building ( £500 million on the M74 alone ) . |
| 15 | It is time that the Government realised that , took steps to protect people who are suffering as a consequence of their lamentable and disastrous poll tax , and ensured that the council tax reflects more sympathy and caring . |
| 16 | Bob and I are progressing as a piano/clarsach duo , and of course some of the accompaniments to his songs tax me to the limit , or have to be vetoed altogether . |
| 17 | Later today we shall be able to debate further the great improvement in standards that we are achieving as a result of our reforms . |
| 18 | Tanzania , backed by Kenya , Somalia and the Gambia , is urging a ban on the ivory trade because elephant numbers in east and central Africa are falling as a result of poaching . |
| 19 | By your appearance you are posing as a servant . |
| 20 | We are working as a team , putting up the mobile . |
| 21 | Where it breaks down and you get a governing body that is split down the middle , where you get staff who tend to who might tend to go in an opposite way to the head teacher , where you get parents who are asked to make difficult decisions as with an opt out ballot , then I think that you have to look very hard at the way that that school is managed and the way that it 's going in the future , because those are the sort of issues that unless you get those right the future for the school can not be as bright as it is for one where they are working as a team . |