Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are pitching for an account , appearing on television or radio , making a significant speech , always have a company Gofer with you . |
| 2 | You react like one when you burn the toast , so why should n't you react like one when you are pitching for a new account ? |
| 3 | All 3 political groups are pitching for increased spending , Labour is likely to propose a budget around £320 million , the Liberal Democrats around £314 million and the Tory group up to £310 millions , all of them well above Government guidelines of £306 million . |
| 4 | I find myself turning to the first chapter of the Book of Genesis for an insight into what I am hinting at here . |
| 5 | ( Abstract nouns , participles , and relative pronouns are italicized in the above passage . ) |
| 6 | Bonington 's adventures on Everest an Annapurna are interlarded with other events ; Fowler and Saunders on Spantik , and even a passing nod to Moffat and Edlinger . |
| 7 | All sections are counterstained with cresyl violet . |
| 8 | For example , in the provisions for extension of time , an extension may be given if the works are delayed for any reason beyond the control of the contractor ( a clause of much wider scope , incidentally , than in other JCT contracts ) , and the contractor is not required to provide information to assist the supervising officer in making an extension . |
| 9 | Where proceedings are delayed through unreasonable or time-wasting behaviour by one of the parties involved , the Reporter should feel free to make a recommendation , on which the Secretary of State will place considerable weight , that the expenses of other parties be awarded against the party responsible . |
| 10 | Countries to the east of us are in time zones with local time that is ahead of GMT , whereas local time and the time zones to the west are delayed with respect to ours . |
| 11 | As each financial year passes , the bow-wave does , indeed , dissipate as research and development programmes meet snags ; as decisions are delayed in the labyrinth of Whitehall committees ; as procurement contracts slip behind schedule ; and as units expend less than they asked for due to similar delays in their day-to-day training and operations . |
| 12 | A few guests who are invited to a midweek ceremony may not be able to leave work early , are delayed by rush hour traffic , or have to return home to change their clothes , and therefore they reach the reception after it has started . |
| 13 | Who will pay compensation if one operators ' trains are delayed by a breakdown of a train by another operator ? |
| 14 | They are parted from their parents on hatching and raised without an anemone . |
| 15 | The wings are very broad and thick at the base and the feathers at the end of the wings are parted like the fingers of a human hand . |
| 16 | ‘ Care managers are stepping into a different world , managing budgets and telling clients when they ca n't do something because there is no more money . |
| 17 | They are stepping over the invisible , moralistic Maginot Line of the old culture of opposition . |
| 18 | Existing employees are refunded for two private survey fees ; new employees are allowed only one . |
| 19 | for instance , the costs of travelling by rail or by car are refunded by Pilkingtons , Billiton and local authorities . |
| 20 | I am fascinated by every single bar . |
| 21 | I am fascinated by the roads and tracks and the steeplechase phases in Three Day Events . |
| 22 | I am fascinated by the sculptural elements in nature . |
| 23 | I am fascinated by the use of the English language , I do not wish to undermine it , but , as I would argue , it does overtly undermine 50 percent of its users ( i.e. women ) . |
| 24 | I am fascinated by the difference in the markings on ( some ) of these aircraft . |
| 25 | ‘ I am fascinated by the idea of focus . |
| 26 | Professor Camm , I am fascinated by the data on the prediction of arrhythmic deaths . |
| 27 | It may not be strictly within my remit , but I am fascinated by the amount of space that is being lavished , particularly by the Sunday Times , on the new list of ‘ The Best of Young British Novelists ’ . |
| 28 | In a more general sense I am fascinated by some of the things you 've just mentioned in your introduction , the question of continuity in German history , how we , how this marvellous nation , the nation of Beethoven and Wagner and Marx and Freud , actually finishes up going to war twice against its European neighbours , and in the Second World War in particular committing these awful atrocities . |
| 29 | The situation is more acute in the rural areas when only 32 per cent of the population aged seven to fourteen years are enrolled at school . |
| 30 | The majority of all black pupils are enrolled at primary level : 78 per cent of all enrolments in the DET 's jurisdiction ( compared with 56 per cent of all white enrolments ) . |