Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [v-ing] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind is coming up the valley — quite slowly , like an army that will win . |
| 2 | It is currently 35 degrees Fahrenheit out and the wind is blowing up the canyon at 87 mph hour which gives us a wind chill factor of — just a moment while I look at the chart — says ‘ Should not be skiing ’ which is good because we are n't . |
| 3 | In the RSPB 's biggest-ever reedbed rescue , a mechanical digger is digging out the surface of the entire 55 acres of fen and volunteers are carrying out strenuous scrub clearance . |
| 4 | Research is filling in the tale of their counterpart in the New World — maize |
| 5 | The JD Tele is jangly and promisingly loud ; the Signature model sounds subdued to the point of inertia , almost as if the basswood is sucking up the sound — not a good start . |
| 6 | It comes at a time when the Reagan administration is rolling back the controls established by successive governments in the 1970s . |
| 7 | It seems Cheltenham 's artistic attempt to engender friendship is having exactly the opposite effect , for the time being at least . |
| 8 | You and the bloody telly , he sat there with the ashtray in his hand and all bloody ash is falling out the bottom ! |
| 9 | Because it , it 's , it 's not particularly going to grab me because I 'm going to look at it and I 'm going to I 'm going to look down to see what it 's asking me do and certainly a busy news editor is looking down the line to see , and the first thing he 'll actually do is , is just have a , a very fast glance at it , find out what it 's about , and just make sure there 's someone who can be phoned , and what the news editor will do is actually throw it out into a pile of other handouts and there 's usually a journalist who 's , who 's who 's won first prize and their task for the day is to do all the handouts , and all you want to be sure of is that someone can make a phone call and the news editor wo n't , wo n't bother with any with any superfluous detail , all he 'd want to know is that somebody can be contacted , we 'll find out about it later . |
| 10 | The skill is running down the beach with all your equipment often in a stiff breeze . |
| 11 | So when my parent is handing out the parental investment , I will be selected to want the parent to give the investment to my sibling if the benefit is twice as great as it would be to myself . |
| 12 | Northamptonshire County Council is bringing in the ban on nearly four thousand acres of farmland where fox hunting could take place . |
| 13 | The Universities Funding Council is carrying out the policy , in response to the White Paper , of distributing funding according to assessments of research quality department by department . |
| 14 | The essence of being a good child is taking on the perspective of those who are more powerful than you , and I was good in this way as my sister never was . |
| 15 | The first stage in building any spreadsheet is deciding where the basic data will be stored . |
| 16 | Luton Town is slipping down the table however ; they lost at Coventry in mid-week and went down one nil at home to Norwich this afternoon , Sherwood on target for the Canaries . |
| 17 | Is not the truth that practically everyone was told , ’ Do n't worry — social security is picking up the bill . ’ |
| 18 | All the while the cameraman is walking backwards the assistant cameraman walks behind him , holding him by the waist and steering him round children 's bicycles and feed-troughs . |
| 19 | The opposite of turning down the sound is blacking out the picture . |
| 20 | The group is taking up the case of Christine Byers from Airdrie whose husband died only weeks before the July cut-off date . |
| 21 | The community charge is wiping away the principle that each person takes charge of their own affairs . |
| 22 | His feet are wide apart , legs straight , and his head is looking down the pitch over the left shoulder . |
| 23 | ‘ The chemical effect extends to what a person is wearing once the effect begins . |
| 24 | And if a strange person is walking up the driveway with intention of breaking in at least somebody may notice it . |
| 25 | Throughswing By now the ball is flying down the fairway must as you imagined it would . |
| 26 | Northgate South ward councillor Dot Long , who took the case up with Labour colleague Eleanor Young , said : ‘ The illegal parking is breaking up the paving stones and it 's generally a nuisance for nearby residents . |
| 27 | WITH Christmas in mind BBC Video is rushing out the Michael Palin 's current TV odyssey Pole To Pole on December 10 . |
| 28 | Aughfad is slipping down the weights but he showed a bit more sparkle at Newmarket last time and can underline his liking for this very sharp track in the Citroen Xantia Sprint Handicap . |
| 29 | Educationalists agree ( and experience shows ) that headteachers who are actively involved in teaching can galvanise a school : but LMS is turning even the most committed among them into under-paid chartered accountants . |
| 30 | As suggested elsewhere , one of the problems with selection is giving up the attractive paths that are not being chosen . |