Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The glands on its face are bestowing the cat 's personal scent , making its owner smell pleasanter and more familiar . |
| 2 | If Lithuania are delayed the match could be ruled as a void fixture and that 's something the FAI do n't dare even think about . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Roy Hardiman , the railway 's General Manager outlined the Gala arrangements ; ‘ Our two Hunslets , Holy War and Maid Marian will be working the passenger services between Llanuwchllyn and Bala Station and at present we are finalising the visit of two locos from the South of England . |
| 5 | Canada in the Spring is already planned and Roy and his wife , Ann , are finalising the details of what promises to be an exciting six-week sojourn . |
| 6 | It is I who am handling the sale of the lease on the office premises . |
| 7 | Gloucestershire Social Services department , which will be responsible for overseeing the private school , say if new pupils are enrolled the school will be subject to detailed inspections regarding the welfare of the children . |
| 8 | Most of Eurotunnel 's shares are held and traded on the Paris market these days and there is fear that the company will end up issuing shares as full or part payment to Transmanche Link , the group of 10 contractors which are building the tunnel . |
| 9 | ‘ The two I particularly remember are building the new stand at Ascot and the construction of Central Point in London . ’ |
| 10 | The team are building the properties on Hoskins Way , Homerton Road , Pallister Park . |
| 11 | Construction are building the Banbury bypass section of the M 40 . |
| 12 | Of course , if you are financing the purchase through a Bank or Building Society , a valuation report will be commissioned and you receive a courtesy copy in most instances . |
| 13 | Japanese corporations which are financing the felling of virgin Chilean forest for the wood chip industry are running into growing opposition from the country 's environmental movement — and from its state forestry concern . |
| 14 | The two councillors are to monitor the situation over the next few days before seeking a meeting with the RUC 's assistant Chief Constable . |
| 15 | I mean you 're exercising your right of reply , but for what particular purpose , I do n't know because the C E C are accepting the motion . |
| 16 | One reason why the courts upheld the fee limits was that doctors are not forced to treat Medicare or Medicaid patients and thus are accepting the fee limits voluntarily . |
| 17 | Erm , and if if I can just , we will Treasurer and ourselves , be reporting to you in more detail on this , in the appropriate areas , but suffice it to say , that the government are accepting the need for further investigation on some of these issues , to look at some of them in the light of the national B U D report , on superannuation and pension arrangements generally , have nevertheless agreed that individual authorities ought to have some more discretion , and the compensation regulations that I mentioned earlier , is one example of that . |
| 18 | He will tell you if you are rotating the left forearm properly on the backswing . |
| 19 | From these are calculated the doses required for a quantity of water , usually 100 litres , if water consumption for each process requiring chemical is the same . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Soil is being lost , rivers polluted , over use of fertilisers and pesticides are poisoning the land . |
| 22 | The lakes are poisoning the desert soil , and trapping — and killing — large numbers of birds and insects , as well as causing respiratory problems in nearby towns . |
| 23 | CONSERVATIONISTS are opposing the extension to a large limestone quarry which they claim would damage irrevocably the Mendip Hills in Somerset . |
| 24 | Computer Horizons ' directors are opposing the proposal . |
| 25 | Environmental and human rights groups are opposing the involvement of international companies in oil exploration in Burma , which they say is destroying a relatively untouched forest environment and helping to fund a military government with a poor human rights record . |
| 26 | Some villagers are opposing the school saying the site is unsuitable . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But if we are to preserve the creatures that rely directly upon water as their medium , technique and science alone are not enough . |
| 29 | Clearly results must improve quickly if Darlington are to preserve the status they attained with such distinction under the leadership of former manager Brian Little . |
| 30 | CHILDREN are to preserve the character of a landmark in a tree-planting ceremony . |