Example sentences of "are [v-ing] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some 30 countries are using such fish and it has been particularly favoured in Iran and Afghanistan as part of their integrated control programmes . |
| 2 | ‘ We are using all means at our disposal to help people to work towards genuine democracy , ’ the organisers said . |
| 3 | Both are using other people as pawns in a game in which they need to win at all costs . |
| 4 | Inoculations , crossbreeding of animals and the use of hormones are producing better livestock , which resist diseases , which fatten faster , and which give more milk , wool or eggs . |
| 5 | ‘ Also firms get a profile in the area and can say they are helping local people and the community , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Liverpool Mayor Rosie Cooper , the daughter of deaf parents , said : ‘ They are ridiculing deaf people . ’ |
| 7 | All sectors except construction are forecasting improved sales , order books and exports . |
| 8 | If you are eating canned fish , always drain thoroughly . |
| 9 | Even this definition is by no means satisfactory , since there is plenty of history of the twentieth century , and people alive today who have memories dating from its beginning are contributing valuable data to the expanding field of oral history . |
| 10 | SUNDERLAND are staging three £100 opens tonight , including a trial stakes for the forthcoming £2,000-to-the-winner Milligans Bakery Challenge Trphy , which starts a week tonight . |
| 11 | Other firms , like B&Q , are employing retired people and ‘ mature workers ’ in their businesses . |
| 12 | erm but you 're also going to know that you 're contributing to the society erm and that even if some people in the newspapers and some politicians are dismissing unemployed people and saying that they 're scroungers , that that is n't the case for you , that you are erm making a positive input into society , probably a much more positive input than a lot of those people that are critical of erm unemployed people . |
| 13 | Perhaps you are provoking those people a bit too much . |
| 14 | On multimedia , the partners are defining Distributed Media Services and Desktop Integrated Media Environment tools . |
| 15 | Police are warning elderly people to be on their guard against a bogus council worker who has been calling at homes in the Forest of Dean . |
| 16 | City Council Officials in Oxford are warning more staff are needed to cope with the number of multiple-occupancy homes . |
| 17 | Police are urging elderly people to be careful after two women posing as social workers stole a pension book and purse from a pensioner 's home in Stockton . |
| 18 | POLICE are urging old folk in Cleveland to be on their guard after young conmen tricked their way into the home of a deaf , 87-year-old woman yesterday and stole a small purse containing a diamond ring and an opal ring . |
| 19 | Council officials in Hartlepool are urging local people to come forward to fill the last few places on an outward bounds course in the Lake District . |
| 20 | One highly-paid aid official admitted : ‘ We are forcing poor people at gunpoint to grow a crop which they know they can not survive on . |
| 21 | New laws and more paperwork are forcing some people to stop being foster parents , the National Foster Care Association said yesterday . |
| 22 | NEW LAWS and more paperwork are forcing some people to stop being foster parents , the National Foster Care Association said yesterday . |
| 23 | Or between wife and husband , we tend to think only of transfer from husbands to wife , but er we do meet quite er a w er ladies who 've got quite high earnings and they themselves are paying forty percent in which case they should make sure that any investment income of theirs is transferred to the husband , so as to get the , to either use up allowances that are not being used at all because of absence of the income , or to benefit from these different rates of tax . |
| 24 | Moreover , although what they are testing other people for are their own conventions , their own work does not necessarily provide evidence of them in practice . |
| 25 | In 1981 there were 480,000 18-year-old girls : 30,000 entered nursing 6.25% In 1986 there are 400,00018-year-old girls : 25,000 have entered nursing 5.635% By 1994 there will only be 300,000 18-year-old girls : HOW MANY WILL ENTER NURSING ? — In recent months , recruitment is proving to be more difficult and many of the London hospitals are experiencing severe staff shortages . |
| 26 | ‘ Do you think you are buying cheap fish from a child in the market ? |
| 27 | People are getting fidgety people are leaving can I just . |
| 28 | Ministers want to reduce the subsidies paid to dentists for NHS patients because they are treating more people than expected , causing a £15m a month overspend . |
| 29 | Not a party , I suppose , but she and Bill are having some people over tomorrow evening , and I 'm one of them . ’ |
| 30 | Some hospital trusts in the inner cities may be shedding staff , but others in the suburbs and the shires are recruiting new staff and cutting waiting-lists . |