Example sentences of "[num] [am/are] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brunei is 80% forest and the 2 are working together on a joint forestry project . |
| 2 | Nine out of 10 are keeping up with their repayments , says consumer credit group Infolink . |
| 3 | Buckinghamshire under 21s are taking on Yorkshire in the semi final of the county championship … kick-off is at 2 |
| 4 | As for ‘ de-Sovietising ’ their armed forces , the three are drawing up new tous-azimuths defence policies , which identify no single enemy . |
| 5 | With a price tag of £415,000 , some of those who signed up for the XJ 220 are backing out , despite having paid a deposit of £50,000 . |
| 6 | The six systems verifiers , who were appointed in August 1992 are carrying out their approval and verification duties in centres . |
| 7 | 69 are raking in between £500,000 and £1 million . |
| 8 | And by his career plan he should have been finished and out of here by now , instead of which he 's way over time on fixed-price job and his prospects of retirement at thirty-five are receding now even faster than they were before . |
| 9 | Models 5 and 25 are shipping now in volume . |
| 10 | Fifteen are staying there , some with their mothers . |
| 11 | So there we are , lines are open , three double one , one double one , I see one or two are ringing already , you 'll have to be very quick . |
| 12 | I would think possibly up there , if you two are sitting here |
| 13 | These two are sitting down . |
| 14 | ‘ If you two are working together you 've only got today to do it . |
| 15 | The Assistant Masters and Mistresses Association , representing about 131,000 teachers , estimates that about 7,500 teachers are not being paid incentive allowances worth £858 a year , while a further 900 are missing out on additional annual payments of £2,568 . |
| 16 | Whereas two out of three people aged between 18 and 34 are paying off some current credit commitment , fewer than one in five pensioners are . |
| 17 | And this particular hundred are creeping in with their votes but have decided , seventy fo seventy seven of them say yes , all be it th th th , by far the majority , and twenty three say no . |
| 18 | In its wake , tens of thousands are slipping off , quietly once more , to sanctuaries abroad . |
| 19 | Richard Spink , of the Citizens Advice Bureaux , said : ‘ Thousands are hanging on by the skin of their teeth . |
| 20 | The huge current-account imbalances of the 1980s are disappearing fast . |
| 21 | Biotechnology , in the form of plant and animal breeding , also has a long history , beginning with the first agriculturalists c. 10 kyr BP , but developments in genetic engineering in the 1970s and 1980s are opening up possibilities that have no historical parallels and thus there are no base-line data against which it is possible to predict future environmental changes that genetically engineered organisms may promote . |
| 22 | A survey has found that people under 24 are cutting down on alcohol . |