Example sentences of "[vb base] are [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The professions have lost many of their better men ; many of those who remain are concentrating on maximising profits and fees to feather nests in the US , Canada or Australia . |
| 2 | The contradictions that remain are challenging — not only with respect to de Beauvoir 's life but also in relation to our own lives . |
| 3 | It falls to stifle creative enterprise , with the result that all that remain are dying echoes |
| 4 | The decisions that they make are gon na be based on comers commercial considerations , not health , so I 'm sure the doctors wo n't be wo n't be bothered with decisions , Councillor because the accountants will be making them for them . |
| 5 | Silvertone are seeking a court declaration that four members of the band and their manager Gareth Evans are bound to their contract , among unconfirmed rumours that Geffen are ready to move in to snap up the band for £2.2 million . |
| 6 | Friends and colleagues , most of you I expect are experiencing heavy increases in house and car insurance . |
| 7 | A hundred and ninety four worker from Smiths industries in bishops cleeve are joining britains jobless total which this week rose for the twenty second consecutive month . |
| 8 | Routledge are offering a number of promising books including Stained Glass in England during the Middle Ages by Richard Marks of York University ( about £80 ) . |
| 9 | If we say are providing a band for dancing , we are liable if they let us down . |
| 10 | Now when erm you say are supplying at the moment . |
| 11 | Erm up then you can turn round when the smaller people come and say are carving up the price , you can turn round and say , Oh no they 're not that 's the price and that 's the price . |
| 12 | Our sales staff would be pleased to discuss your requirements and the many new concepts Interglass are working on towards the year 2000 . |
| 13 | Worst-hit are clothing and shoe stores where sales crashed even with up to 70 per cent price cuts . |
| 14 | As a ‘ no meaning ’ theist , he or she is protected from the sort of self-criticism that must come when believer and unbeliever are challenging one another on common ground . |
| 15 | , Small birds , including great tits and bluetits , are unable to rear so many young because the caterpillars on which they depend are developing faster in the warmer summers . |
| 16 | Even as the salesmen are expounding the virtues of the paperless office the systems their customers install are doubling the number of printed pages produced by businesses every three years . |
| 17 | Alternatively , just hang plants from hooks above the window , or stand small pots of plants along the windowsill , making sure that the ones you select are going to be happy with the kind of light , temperature and humidity you are providing . |
| 18 | As one attempt to bring the opposition together , LAG are proposing to hold a coordinating meeting of all the groups involved . |
| 19 | Any foods that you suspect are causing problems during the course of Stage II must immediately be struck out of your diet . |
| 20 | Well can I say first of all that the meeting to which you refer will take place this coming Monday and I suspect that it will be the first of possibly two or three meetings which I suspect are going to follow rather quickly , one after the other . |
| 21 | ISLINGTON 'S SAN Diego transplants The God Machine are quitting Britain for a while . |
| 22 | ‘ Now , which parents who matter are coming , and what do they generally drink ? ’ |
| 23 | In the longer term , IBM is even thinking about making PC-DOS 6 processor-independent so that any forthcoming lines of handhelds are n't limited to Intel Corp chips , Ms Dimfel says the same people producing the Taligent/Workplace OS micro-kernel are looking at a ‘ pico-kernel ’ optimised to run just PC-DOS . |
| 24 | The reason that his brush has stroked not a lot on these pristine pages of late is twofold : firstly , he 's been very busy providing illustrations for the soon-to-be-seen N-Force magazine ( which Europress are launching for Nintendo fans = both of them ! ) , and he 's been sunning himself on the golden shores of beautiful Bali for the past three weeks ! |
| 25 | Not only do they write of their personal experiences , speculations and fears , they also begin to imagine what people they know are thinking , saying , and most of all , what they are typing into their word-processors . |
| 26 | At school there 's always the two or three girls in the class that you know are sleeping with guys , and they had no qualms about it . |
| 27 | But we know are going on to double shift on Monday |
| 28 | but at the moment most of the people I know are saying , go for it ! |
| 29 | Some of you I know are working but some now Roger are people of leisure and will therefore I hope er be able to find more space in their diaries to quaff the glass of er cheap wine and er raise it |
| 30 | Erm plans for the succession er and development of senior people and some of the plans this is going back to July er were in place then , most of the plans are in place now erm has probably most of you know are retiring in in October er their jobs have now all been allocated and are in the process of being transferred to the partners . |