Example sentences of "are [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although many local authorities in their strategy documents state that they aim first at rehabilitation , I remain unconvinced that they are devoting the same resources in terms of skilled social workers with small caseloads and adequate financial support to natural families , as they do to finding and supporting new families . |
| 2 | ‘ The two I particularly remember are building the new stand at Ascot and the construction of Central Point in London . ’ |
| 3 | He will tell you if you are rotating the left forearm properly on the backswing . |
| 4 | You are poisoning the very sources of order and happiness and virtue ; you are tearing up root and branch all relations of families to each other ; you are annulling , as it were , the institution of domestic life decreed by Providence Himself , the wisest and kindest of earthly ordinances , the mainstay of social peace and virtue and therein of national security . |
| 5 | For example , Fielding ( 1982 ) takes the best elements of the three main models : ( a ) the desire to live in a more rural setting ; ( b ) the availability of new jobs in the sunrise industries of the rural areas ; and ( c ) regional planning by governments to argue that the two main factors are first , the development of a post-industrial society where the mobile middle classes are relocating the new industries , and second , the rise of service employment , particularly in the more attractive rural areas of each country . |
| 6 | The problem of thinking we are attaching the same meaning to a word or action when we may not be can be appreciated humorously . |
| 7 | The owners are not seeing guilty behaviour when Rover slinks across the floor , they are seeing the submissive behaviour Rover displays in anticipation of the aggression , however mild , the owners are about to use in attempt to reprimand him . |
| 8 | In other words , we are seeing the same film , but it is the negative that is now being presented to us . |
| 9 | It is only that by doing so , the accounts are reflecting the economic reality more closely . |
| 10 | You can only turn properly if you are using the gybing straps . |
| 11 | In truth the change to the game is subtle rather than sensational and too much fuss has been made when , in fact , some folk are using the new laws as an excuse to disguise their weaknesses . |
| 12 | We are using the first two forms ( No 1581 and No 1650 ) despite this , but the third form ( No 1655 ) is completely unusable and we are having to reorder . |
| 13 | Your are using the correct oil in the gearboxes . |
| 14 | Most items can be sent in sealed envelopes or packages , but if you are using the Printed Papers service please remember that the packaging needs to be easy to open for Customs examination and to be able to be repacked without additional packaging — the best solution is to use string or plastic tags . |
| 15 | ‘ It worries me that impresarios are using the Russian label to make money at the expense of companies like us , like the Scottish and Northern Ballet . |
| 16 | I think really what we want to do is to decide whether or not we are using the annual report as a a list of jobs that we did last year . |
| 17 | In a survey of 450 top UK companies last year , Touche Ross discovered that although the efficiency of financial consolidation is of key importance to senior management , few finance departments have any objective measure of their performance and know whether they are using the right tools . |
| 18 | We are using the additional resources to excellent effect . |
| 19 | If you just pull the plug it does n't have time to erase the temporary files it used and if you are using the latest SmartDrv utility you might even lose data that you thought was safely written to disk . |
| 20 | If this does not cut cleanly , never use excessive force — you are using the wrong tool . |
| 21 | Do n't confuse this with the time-up bell , especially when many areas are in close proximity and all are using the same type of bell . |
| 22 | The newspaper coverage may have contributed to bringing the crime into the public domain , but essentially the press and the police are using the same repertoire of scripts . |
| 23 | er but if you are actually swimming and you are using the different strokes and so forth , it does use power-wise all the main muscles of the body . |
| 24 | If you are using the pregenerated characters , Dunderl Goldhand will want to destroy the shrine to Slaanesh here ; in this case , a Daemonette will arrive to attack him . |
| 25 | If you are using the pregenerated player characters , then Erszebet Lauschenberg will receive a sign from Verena that one of the jars has the heart of the High Priestess which she seeks . |
| 26 | If you are using the pregenerated characters , Erszebet Lauschenberg will receive a sign from Verena that one of these is the brain of the High Priestess she seeks . |
| 27 | If — and only if — you are using the pregenerated characters , then there will be two additional Grimoires here with gold and silver banding . |
| 28 | Selected branches of travel agents Thomas Cook and AT May are using the computerised system , with the details of about 100 selected hotels . |
| 29 | The three are singing the last bars of a song . |
| 30 | Routine checks of ward rosters should be made to assess that ward managers are producing the best match between patient needs and staff off duty entitlements . |