Example sentences of "are [v-ing] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are building on this . |
| 2 | In an editorial statement later this morning , Akira Kobayashi , the Chief Executive Officer of GenTech East , will explain how unreasonable and inefficient the Soviets are proving on this issue . |
| 3 | ‘ So many runners are depending on this race to qualify for the Olympics , especially the Portuguese , who have been in invincible form in half-marathons , and I would not be surprised if the winner is someone no one has heard of . ’ |
| 4 | The gap in the ESP market has always been at the lower end , and a number of other publishers are catering for this . |
| 5 | Now are you seeing the increase that the national statistics are suggesting in this area ? |
| 6 | Children who are struggling at this level will also have problems in grasping more complex aspects of text construction , such as the shifts of voice studied in this paper . |
| 7 | Quite rightly , they place much emphasis on the importance of introducing genuine market relations in Yugoslavia ; and increasing numbers of them are including in this the right to establish competing private enterprises and self-managed enterprises in which the workers own shares . |
| 8 | When adult cats follow their owners they are reverting to this half-grown kitten stage . |
| 9 | I think there 's more to love than just simply romantic love erm , I 'm a volunteer campaigner with Oxfam and to me love includes love of my fellow man and fellow women throughout the world and I find it very hard at the moment that millions of people are starving in this world and I feel that I 've got to show my love by helping them |
| 10 | Now , as a remarkable result of the ‘ Velvet Revolution ’ , the monks are returning to this great Premonstratensian monastery , founded in 1140 by Vladislav II . |
| 11 | such important guest this evening she 's let him into the banquet and of course the guys are dying at this stage . |
| 12 | If you are writing on this topic you can work out a list of different sorts of tragedy . |
| 13 | Manchester 's Assistant Chief Constable Jim Paterson , said : ‘ It is typical of the terrorists who are operating in this country that they should act with a complete and utter disregard for the civilian community . |
| 14 | You say the police are looking into this already ? ’ |
| 15 | Few of us ( unless we are looking for this ) want to become fixated with interest on another individual . |
| 16 | ‘ More and more people are looking to this kind of holiday — a bit of walking through spectacular landscapes , punctuated by train rides , ’ says Mark Livock , product manager |
| 17 | Will he bear in mind the fact that many eastern European countries are looking to this country as a possible dumping ground and they produce their goods with wages of about 20p an hour ? |
| 18 | The European Junior Team Championships , which England last won in 1988 , are to be played here from July 8–11 and all the governing bodies are looking on this week 's championships as the ideal trial run . |
| 19 | ‘ We are looking at this matter . |
| 20 | I think that we must all be full of the sense or profound thankfulness that we are living in this country , under a system of National Government … . |
| 21 | Some 35,000 Salvadoreans are living in this controlled zone . |
| 22 | ‘ I hope the rest of you are listening to this , ’ she said to the class . |
| 23 | Such ambivalence makes shifts of register suggestive , for they tend to imply that we are listening to this or that person 's manner of speaking , and to shift point of view accordingly . |
| 24 | People who are listening to this have missed something |
| 25 | And when they are listening in this way to check their theories they have a real purpose in listening . |
| 26 | Quite apart from the fact that it is ludicrous to compare the persons of Baron Thyssen and of Mr Khalili as collectors , as also to compare the status of their collections ( Baron Thyssen is not proposing to buy and sell from his collection while it is on loan in Madrid ) , it is clear from the information we are publishing in this issue , that the rental of the Thyssen Collection was a luxury Britain could have ill afforded , and not a ‘ lost opportunity ’ . |
| 27 | The Southern member states are pushing for this to happen straightaway without having thought through the format of the export document required by the Regulation . |
| 28 | You confirm that you are acting in this matter as principal and not as agent or broker for any other party . |
| 29 | The Fantasia in F minor , written for mechanical organ but one of the composer 's most intensely dramatic utterances , comes off fairly well ( but not as well as with Frantz and Eschenbach , who are compelling in this great work ) , but I still prefer the weight and variety of organ tone here ; and if the Adagio of the C minor Fugue with its two-piano writing is a trifle ponderous , the D major Sonata for two pianos that follows is not all so . |
| 30 | That type of putting back into a business context , is something which er we need to help the business come to terms with while they are growing in this new scheme of procuring work in a more formal and structured way . |