Example sentences of "[noun] [am/are] [v-ing] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mean time all the vil , all the mines are closing are they gon na say well yes well |
| 2 | Some signs to look for in detecting when meetings are failing are : |
| 3 | What Tumbleweed are doing is more or less just putting the two approaches together . |
| 4 | Because the upper limits of resolution depend on the acoustic wavelength being used , the path researchers are following is to increase the sound frequency , thereby shortening the wavelength . |
| 5 | Hey hey I say all these kids are doing is walking round with a bloody turnip with a candle in it . |
| 6 | What the right-wingers are saying is that we will have the trade unions ' money but we will not give 'em the right to vote . |
| 7 | So what the parents are doing is they 're rewarding the duckling that runs the furthest and the fastest , to erm , they 're trying to reinforce that behaviour , because what they 're are trying to do , is get the ducklings away from the nest and start looking for , for food for themselves , presumably . |
| 8 | ‘ Your parents are coming are n't they , and she wants to move in with me . ’ |
| 9 | Well I th I get the impression that there 's sort of a , there 's an assumption that the communists are making is that , you know you get land reform sort of like give these people a bit of land |
| 10 | and interested in what other countries are doing is a great step forward . |
| 11 | As far as I can see , the only thing the privatised companies are doing is keeping the bills rising as the water level drops . |
| 12 | Criticising Alan for saying how well scum are playing is a bit like shooting the messenger who brings bad news . |
| 13 | For what you cowardly heroes are doing is n't helping Adolf Hitler . |
| 14 | Catriona Marchant investigates what youth justice workers are finding is wrong — and right — with the new Act |
| 15 | Despite the terms " short-day " and " long-day " , the cue which these plants are following is actually the length of the night . |
| 16 | Now what the Labour Group are doing is super , but it does n't go far enough . |
| 17 | That view is reinforced by the Newsons , who say : ‘ The measures that stand out as the most predictive of criminal record before 20 years are having been smacked or beaten once or more a week at 11 , and having a mother with a high commitment to formal physical punishment at that age . ’ |
| 18 | Even between technical peers as in a design team there can be difficulties in communication because the models which individuals are using are not identical . |
| 19 | Listening to the radio the only way you can get an idea of how individuals are doing is to see how often they are mentioned . |
| 20 | They 're competing for access to male pouches , what mammalian males are doing is competing for access to female uteruses because it 's only in a female uterus that an offspring can develop if you 're a mammal . |
| 21 | Well what most airlines have done has been to try and trim back their scale of operations , but what Virgin are doing is using Richard Branson 's personal money to try and expand out of trouble . |
| 22 | One way of checking what people are eating is to see what they throw away . |
| 23 | Yes , and , and sometimes of course this is , this , this becomes a conscious rationalization for what people are doing are n't they ? |
| 24 | All these people are doing is using their psychic faculties . |
| 25 | What a lot of people are doing is they 're not putting up rails but they 're putting up a erm a border halfway up are n't they , or just not quite halfway up the wall . |
| 26 | Swedish agricultural policy is principally directed towards the enlargement of farms and an overall reduction in crop acreage and farm labour , but rural communities which earn the major part of their income from agriculture or forestry and whose populations are declining are recognised as a national asset whose survival should be safeguarded . |
| 27 | The phase of education in which Oxfordshire teachers are working is significantly associated with the attitudes represented by two of these factors : the efficiency and the potency of SSE , the teachers in the primary schools being the most positive , those in the secondary schools the least and those in the middle schools occupying a middle position . |
| 28 | The substrate on which the pellets are resting is important , and pellets on soft soil could be pushed into the soil rather than being crushed . |
| 29 | But really what their over-revved egos are betraying is that their boudoir success has all the acceleration of a Sinclair C5 . |
| 30 | Well erm destroying erm Kuwait erm it 's not an easy thing because erm what the allied forces are doing is erm attacking the important military bases and military installation . |