Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are stepping over the invisible , moralistic Maginot Line of the old culture of opposition . |
| 2 | The Convention has been binding upon the United Kingdom since 1953 . |
| 3 | It endorsed British industry 's achievements under the policies that we have been pursuing for the past 12 years , urged us to continue and build upon them in future and condemned utterly the sort of policies still advocated by the Labour party , which is stuck in a mind-set of the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 4 | Downland Housing Association are building at the Larch Cottage site , Portsmouth Road , while the second site is at Lynchborough Road , Passfield . |
| 5 | They are helping to move soil into a garden they are building at the school with the help of mums , dads and teachers . |
| 6 | On the contrary , they form the foundation blocks to all that follows , and serve as a constant reminder of the need to ensure that we are building on the right foundation and that the materials with which we build have spiritual survival capability ( 1 Cor. |
| 7 | The flaws which they are building into the system ( which even Phil is building into the system ) — the endemic morbidity of man and the lethal hostility of his environment — are not incidental but essential . |
| 8 | If as part of the task you specify the effect the programme is to have on the audience , you are building in the criteria by which that audience can judge the programme and you are giving them a purpose in viewing . |
| 9 | If you try and fudge it and set up three or four , say they can all discuss the same thing , you are building in the ability for major conflicts . |
| 10 | The way those clouds are building in the sky , I ought to drive . |
| 11 | The residents of Unity Flats are shrugging off the stigma of living in what has long been regarded as one of the city 's most undesirable areas . |
| 12 | Police say the device bears all the hallmarks of the IRA and officers are liasing with the Anti Terrorist Squad … |
| 13 | Sainsburys say the company 's medical staff are liasing with the local council.No employees will be allowed back to work until the infection has cleared up . |
| 14 | A NORTH-east farmer wants a few wise men from Scotland to take a behind-the-scenes look at farming in EC member states to see how counterparts are faring with the rules and regulations . |
| 15 | During the sixteenth century the Portuguese had already been profiting from the gold being produced in West Africa and Japan . |
| 16 | It was considered that Sendero had been profiting from the rivalry between the Army and police in the region as to who should spearhead the US-backed campaign against drug trafficking . |
| 17 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 18 | Gill Hill , who has been seeing to the social side of things , organised an outing to the Crystal Palace Reunion for members from Hatfield , Hemel Hempstead , St. Albans and Harpenden , and another to Sadlers Wells Theatre for the ballet enthusiasts . |
| 19 | The , the , the best defence you could make of that , if you wanted to make a defence of it , would be that in the nineteen twenties and thirties as we 've been seeing in the lectures , I 'll be saying a bit more about that some psychoanalyse was , was developing . |
| 20 | But as yet we 've not had an announcement on those , what those conditions are attaching to the use of the , of the grant . |
| 21 | So the young policeman ( who had been eating with the other young men in the passage outside the guestroom ) came in and read the transcript of the court judgement which had condemned the boy from Zliten . |
| 22 | The UK subsidiary has been eating into the parent company 's profits due to start up costs for its paging and mobile communications operations . |
| 23 | Standing there in shade , I observed the man and woman who had also been eating in the hotel emerge with their child . |
| 24 | Heaven knows what his victim had been eating before the battle , but it ended Seiguard 's reign of terror , permanently . |
| 25 | On the first day the West Indian bowlers had been sparing with the bouncer , for on such a pitch there was no need for it . |
| 26 | Workers are risin' against the poverty and 'ardship . |
| 27 | I do believe there is a feeling of real excitement and expectation amongst your generation because of the extraordinary changes we are seeing across the world . |
| 28 | Chairman Trevor Wheatley said yesterday : ‘ The recovery we are seeing in the UK and US is fragile , though our order books are 20pc up on this time last year . |
| 29 | When we discussed it , it became clear that there is a wide spectrum of response to the whole issue of private care , that the response from within the statutory services tends to be one of suspicion , tends to be one of sometimes a fairly moralistic approach and this is quite at odds with the response we are seeing from the government which tends to go to the other end of the spectrum and be promoting private care as the solution to many of the problems of service provision and volume that are being encountered at the moment . |
| 30 | President , with a very heavy heart and bitter disappointment for all our people out there , who are depending on the Social Chapter to give them dignity , safety and a reasonable standar standard of living , I reluctantly withdraw this motion , but I will say this , we live to fight another day . |