Example sentences of "they are [v-ing] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are the children who sometimes crack at university level because they are facing challenge for the first time in their lives . ’ |
| 2 | By concentrating upon the physical consequences , the surgeons are deluding themselves and their patients into believing that they are helping the problem and that they are providing encouragement for the future . |
| 3 | They are reclaiming rock from the strutting , posturing macho Metal peacocks and the fey , fumbling , characterless boys and dragging it down into a cathartic sexual/emotional hell for a slice of long-overdue feminine judgement . |
| 4 | When the Roman crowds gather outside St Peter 's , they are taking part in a moral system , however detestable it may be . |
| 5 | When the mobs rush forward in the Mall they are taking part in the last circus of a civilization that has lost faith in itself , and sold itself for a splendid triviality . |
| 6 | Dressed in period costume and clutching lunches of bread , cheese and cold pies , wrapped in cloth , they are taking part in a living history experiment . |
| 7 | They are taking part in Food Safety Awareness Week organised by the Institution of Environmental Health Officers and the Food and Drink Federation . |
| 8 | They are taking part in an arms race in which success on one side is felt by the other side as failure . |
| 9 | Increasingly , they are taking students with non A-level qualifications and finding that many of them perform superbly . |
| 10 | This year they are taking place at Espoo , Finland , and in 1994 they will be at Stavanger , Norway . |
| 11 | The other point which is made by the defendant is this , he says that the plaintiffs have been guilty of delaying tactics er during the course of this litigation , the result of which has been that er he has not been able to realize his interest in the partnership premises , also he has not been able to acquire a partnership premises and he he , doctor mentioned to me that to the actual conveyance of the partnership premises he 's , he tells me was only produced I think thirty and er that er it was only then that he realized there might be a chance that he could acquire the premises for himself , but he says that er because of the general , I think the case is , because of the general conduct of the plaintiffs in delaying the trial of the action one way or another , er the practical effect has been that the plaintiffs have had the benefit of use and occupation of the premises at which he erm , a main view , has a lot of that interest and that they are getting benefit of the kind from that occupation and he is not getting any money in res in respect of that , at least nothing like any market rent because it maybe that there is a fairly small er payment being made , but I 'm not too entirely clear whether that is the case or not , but the stock bond is suggesting that the plaintiffs have been obtaining benefit of the use of the premises at his expense and in those circumstances it is unfair er in , in , or otherwise not appropriate that the plaintiffs should be entitled to obtain interest on their bill of costs , in respect essentially of the period of delay , and when I say period of delay included that the period during which the forward of Mr Justice remained erm unprotected . |
| 12 | The 21 independent local radio stations all over the Republic claim they are getting audiences of up to three million listeners each week . |
| 13 | The difficulty with this is that unless there are well-established efficiency measures for the services of the department neither it nor its users will know whether they are getting value for money . |
| 14 | But customers at present have difficulty in knowing whether they are getting value for money . |
| 15 | And over the past eighteen months several agencies , among them the International Fund for Ireland and LEDU , have begun to have a presence in the most economically underdeveloped areas and to make claims about how they are targeting resources on places like West Belfast . |
| 16 | They are free only when they are electing members of parliament . |
| 17 | They are multiplying phrases like ‘ environment-friendly ’ and ‘ phosphate-free ’ , to obscure the real ‘ greenness ’ of an artifact and confuse Worshippers into exchanging more . |
| 18 | On many modules staff will be aware that they are teaching students from different stages of the Course and with different aims and backgrounds . |
| 19 | They are maintaining contact with the world . |
| 20 | He has just noticed they are serving coffee on the next floor up . |
| 21 | Zoos , botanical gardens and some circuses claim they are serving conservation by breeding animals or plants in captivity . |
| 22 | They are discussing terms for the proposed constitutional conference , on which many hopes hang . |
| 23 | Bursting with spring health , they are drawing sustenance from a compost containing thousands of banknotes and travellers cheques . |
| 24 | Police do n't believe the abduction 's linked with a string of of sex attacks in Milton Keynes which they 're still investigating , but they are warning women to be on their guard . |
| 25 | Yet they are using blackmail on miners to vote to close pits earlier than they year that had been decided on so that they can close the pit down and they have cut the redundancy payments for miners . |
| 26 | Does he believe that that is possible in Northern Ireland , when some sections of the security services are colluding with terrorists , when they are using terrorists as agents while they are involved in terrorist activity and when some members of the security services are handing out confidential security documents as though they were pen-pal photographs ? |
| 27 | They are setting standards of good practice that we in the Save The Children Fund can then help to spread . |
| 28 | about joining the airport policy consortium to making sure that members and officers views are er sort of , er officer and member representation and to make sure that Hertfordshire 's views are heard on this policy consortium because as Peter quite rightly said , erm it 's made up of members and officers of County and District Council 's South of the river and yes although their com their main intention is opposing terminal five , regrettably yes they are considering expansion at Stansted er , er far more than an alternative . |
| 29 | SOME Northern Ireland construction companies are so desperate for business they are building houses at a loss , a report reveals today . |
| 30 | SOME Northern Ireland construction companies are so desperate for business they are building houses at a loss , a report reveals today . |