Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cosmetic companies are building on their foundations for black skin this spring : |
| 2 | Old issues are re-emerging from our history books on to the political agenda : the status of Germany , the problems of the Balkans , the ambiguous relations of peripheral countries like Britain and Russia to the politics of Central Europe . |
| 3 | Thus we are accumulating in our local rubbish dumps tons of baby excreta , some of it infected , which sooner or later will dribble into our water supply . |
| 4 | I am weeping in my pillow . |
| 5 | At the Versace emporium on London 's Bond Street , customers are clamouring for his suggestive leather look . |
| 6 | We compare what we are seeing with what we know , to see if there is enough resemblance for us to treat the new thing in the same way as we would have treated the known thing . |
| 7 | So fair to say , the staff are depending on their tips to supplement their salary |
| 8 | DEC already has the incomplete version 1 of the OSF operating system out on its MIPS line , and it 's this that customers are using for their own early development work . |
| 9 | Having turned towards your track at a certain angle , you now wait for your RC to move to a bearing where it is displace from 0° ( station ahead ) or from 180° ( station astern ) the same number of degrees that you are using for your interception angle . |
| 10 | ‘ But I 'll argue until the day I die that we are singing about something serious . |
| 11 | At first it seems the girls are singing in their native tongue . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It would be interesting to know whether Petrey really does hold the views I am attributing to him , and whether he thinks that speech act theories of semantics are therefore based on a fundamental error . |
| 14 | Japanese computer firms such as Fujitsu , Hitachi and Nippon Electric ( NEC ) , which are competing with Us firms to build the world 's fastest ‘ supercomputer ’ have also expressed interest in using the idea to develop an optical processing technology . |
| 15 | We send in negative data on our peers — those who are competing with us for more powerful positions . |
| 16 | There will then be all sorts of rumours buzzing through servants ' halls up and down the country to the effect that he has been approached by this or that personage or that several of the highest houses are competing for his services with wildly high wages . |
| 17 | Mr Broom says : ‘ The hypnotherapeutic approach is considered particularly relevant for assistance in distance running because in a very real sense you are competing against yourself . ’ |
| 18 | IF YOU are catering for yourselves and driving to the resort , stock up at a hypermarket before you get there to avoid paying astronomical prices . |
| 19 | So on gaining the top , where the walkers are tucking into their second pork pie , the rock-climber needs some way to distinguish him or herself as greatly superior . |
| 20 | misfortune , and yet , and yet the cost of putting them into a bed and breakfast would stop those people 's houses going on the market and it would stop those people who are benefitting from it , from benefitting from it |
| 21 | For deaf people , this isolation may lead to lack of access to the legal machinery of statementing , which presently conveys at least some protection to those who are struggling with their education . |
| 22 | erm and I also think that a lot of people are struggling with their own lives and they have n't got time to worry about other people . |
| 23 | But it is n't easy we have a lot , what complaints we get bearing in mind what I said a short while ago , what complaints we get now are very much biased towards defects in street lighting systems provided currently here and there in Suffolk , so I 'm conscious of this , we are working with the Eastern Electricity Board on an improved maintenance contract whereby certain benefits , and one of them is immediacy of response to repair work will be I hope put forward , very conscious of it indeed so and er we are struggling with what the , the basic cause of it all of course is the , the , the quality of some of our street light and equipment here and there throughout Suffolk is old or very out of date and even run down indicator procedure , so we have got a large real programme as well as repairing ones already there . |
| 24 | I wonder if we can get to the point of my question , it may be my fault but I will try again , the reason I am suggesting to you was the decision was made to update the service charges once a year was because if you did n't update the , the existing brochure might mislead , is that right or not ? |
| 25 | The more you can relate your quotations to your audience and the people you are praising in your speech , the more interested and flattered they will feel . |
| 26 | I am sticking by him . ’ |
| 27 | Some parents need help in identifying how they are reacting to their child and so professional observation of their interaction may be required . |
| 28 | Well I think it 's er , you know , farmers are reacting like everybody else to this . |
| 29 | Even when people are stamping on his head he still carries that inane smile . |
| 30 | First , some accept its authority and obey its instructions because they are binding on them . |