Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] are [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondaries can usually be identified because they cluster around the larger primary , often forming chains and other small groups , and because the impacts producing them are at low angles and low speeds and so the craters are usually elongated . |
| 2 | Have you forgotten how easy it is to delude yourself into believing you are in love ? |
| 3 | Now , I 'm all for the members of the Great British Public knowing a great deal more about the nostrums they consume , and having the information needed to help them share in deciding which are worth having and when , and which are best left to the birds . |
| 4 | Serious errors , such as the two examples given , are usually corrected very quickly , but many newspaper readers who have personal knowledge of a news item find inaccuracies in reporting which are of less importance and which do not get corrected . |
| 5 | He has recently been involved in the developments in sow housing and feeding which are of great interest to pig producers . |
| 6 | One of the 20 to 2,000 facts you and I did n't know about Quisling which are in this book is that he was a lifelong bigamist . |
| 7 | This batch I am sending you are for keeps , if you can find a place for them ! |
| 8 | The example is chosen simply to demonstrate how sadly lacking we are in the very facilities which historians require most — mechanisms of exchanging data between different processing environments . |
| 9 | In the first category are those often described as ‘ Western ’ , although strictly speaking they are Near Eastern religions . |
| 10 | Mr Simon Murray , leader of Honour Hong Kong , said : ‘ I am not saying we are over the moon , but it is progress . ’ |
| 11 | The papers are saying we are after Jobson from Oldham ( Centre half ) . |
| 12 | Our emotions are saying they are under a lot of stress and are needing some help . |
| 13 | Sir John Donaldson , president of the NIRC , had said in June : ‘ By their conduct these men are saying they are above the rule of law . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ We are bound to face criticism from both sides , from people saying we should be locking up thousands of juvenile offenders and throwing away the key and others throwing up their hands and saying they are like the old approved schools and will be universities of crime . ’ |
| 15 | He added : ‘ The letter suggests the employers have got a spy network in place , indicating they are in a state of war with their own workers . |
| 16 | And meanwhile , next year 's potatoes will not be planted because the men who should be doing it are on the public works instead — and they are on the public works because that is the only place they can get money to buy the meal they need to replace the potato that failed . ’ |
| 17 | The goals of the organisation are on the whole shared or accepted by its members : only the means of achieving them are in dispute . |
| 18 | Consider this : every time a writer/ performer sells an album , their royalty earns them around 60p ( assuming they are on 10 per cent ) . |
| 19 | Er , looking through the officer workload ratios in paragraph four , it shows that using what are in honesty fairly crude Home Office measures , we 're really quite well to the national average , that we carry out approximately four hundred and thirty three inspections per officer in a year as opposed to the expected four hundred and eighty two . |
| 20 | The reverse , thinking you are of normal weight when you are overweight , is , if anything , a rarity . |
| 21 | Americans , threatened by nothing more bellicose to their north and south than Canada and Mexico , are not accustomed to thinking they are in a battle zone . |
| 22 | Paradoxically , while dreaming we are without imagination and we are not aware that we are dreaming . |
| 23 | He believes the psychology generated in many newspapers is lacking , where the job is treated as a production line with photographers feeling they are on a treadmill . |