Example sentences of "are [pers pn] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are you into going to a pub tonight ? |
| 2 | ‘ How are you at playing a part ? ’ |
| 3 | Crime they say does n't pay , well you may have your own views on that but certainly across the breadth of variety of criminal activity we might agree that crime almost always hurt someone , more or less , we have a system designed to cope with the effects of crime and to deter future criminals , but it does n't seem to be making crime a thing of the past , so how good are we at dealing with crime , tonight 's hundred women have a broad range of experience as victims , law women , perpetrators , police and others , we 'll be hearing their views on the system and how it might be changed and asking why are we all so fascinated by fictional crime from Cell Block H to Agatha Christie . |
| 4 | where are we with costing and theatres on the nominal charge ? |
| 5 | Er yeah but why , yeah okay I did n't mean that actually was he asking too much , I mean are we interpreting the peasants as having done , are we over interpreting what the peasants have done , basically ? |
| 6 | So how close are we to seeing dual-fuel powerplants in tractors ? |
| 7 | Well we are we like doing the videos because er in the early days we had a lot of problems I suppose with ourselves and with the video people because they had planned ideas for the songs . |
| 8 | This means in practical terms that friends and club are OK , and are to be believed , while ‘ outsiders ’ of all kinds are not , nor are they worth contacting to check information . |
| 9 | So er to look at it er another way , w I , I 'll stop before I go back to the erm slides , because I want to show you a few on you know erm er the way that money 's worked over the last forty years , but if you look at index-linked certificates , cos somebody mentioned that , are they worth having ? |
| 10 | So resolute are they at keeping hold of one another that even if you pick up the mother , her babies will still hang on to her in a wriggling furry rope . |
| 11 | Are they in mourning for the first-class service ? |