Example sentences of "are [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against this , J.H. Gagnon and William Simon have argued in their book Sexual Conduct that sexuality is subject to ‘ socio-cultural moulding to a degree surpassed by few other forms of human behaviour ’ , and in so arguing they are building both on a century of sex research and on a century of questioning the notion of ‘ natural man ’ . |
| 2 | At least one top left-hander in the top six looks a must to help combat Warne 's leg-spin-and the odds on David Gower returning are shortening almost by the hour . |
| 3 | Wales welcome their arch-humiliators with open jaws , the scent of an overdue kill growing in nostrils that are flaring again under the inspirational coaching of Alan Davies . |
| 4 | But now other countries , particularly Korea and Japan , are competing successfully with the result that Britain and Clydeside have fewer orders . |
| 5 | Banks are competing fiercely for a share of the slower-growing market . |
| 6 | We are touching here on the sensitive area of competitive tendering and of privatisation . |
| 7 | X-Windows technology suppliers are bandying together as the X Industry Association to promote X at the behest of the X Business Group . |
| 8 | It claimed that people feel more in control of their lives if they are inching forward on a journey , rather than waiting for something to happen . |
| 9 | It might be that your ambitions are seriously flawed and you are preaching only to the converted . |
| 10 | Piece by small technical piece , these strategies are eating away at the consensus that originally made OS/2 seem a certainty as the computing world 's next-generation technical standard . |
| 11 | Such restraining views are typical of many that are fully justified by the emphasis upon process studies that characterized the 1960s and 1970s and led to smaller investment of resources in historical studies and to the fear that process studies will not profitably link back with chronological ones — in fact there are many indications that such links are happening again including the way in which physical geographers who have been mainly concerned with processes and modelling are moving towards evolution . |
| 12 | Such things are happening all over the country . |
| 13 | One or two preliminary studies have suggested that these changes are occurring unevenly across the country , but as yet there is little substantive research into this issue , even though it has been stressed as a priority question by the TUC itself . |
| 14 | Zapp is the supreme professional , who embodies , albeit comically , those ideals of professionalism that have long been dominant in the North American academy and are becoming so in the British . |
| 15 | As a collective , people are contributing financially to the installation of new tube wells . |
| 16 | He accepts that his input into the group is still the largest but believes the other members are contributing more on a growing basis . |
| 17 | We are pressing ahead with the Birmingham northern relief road and western orbital route . |
| 18 | ‘ We are pressing hard for a meeting between BAe 's finance director and our lead investor as we are aware that time is slipping by , ’ said Mr Hooke . |
| 19 | It is the fourth day of the month of June , and HARRY and PHIL are walking together in the garden of HARRY 'S house . |
| 20 | OLD HABITS are dying hard in the Eurobond market where two months have now elapsed since leading banks implemented a radical change in the way they organise the selling of new issues to investors . |
| 21 | And most of us have a general sense that things are pretty gloomy for people in the Third World : we might remember that Sudanese women must walk hours in search of firewood , that Brazilian peasants are still going hungry , that children are dying all over the world of something as simple and easily treatable as diarrhoea . |
| 22 | ‘ That Tweed and his girl friend are driving somewhere in a Mercedes ? ’ |
| 23 | If you are driving alone in a car , do not stop to pick up hitch-hikers , always lock all your doors if you are sitting in a parked car and do not roll down the window to give a suspicious looking stranger directions . |
| 24 | At one point , half the company are banging rhythmically on a table like kids at a tea party . |
| 25 | As we near the end of the 20th century our horizons must extend well beyond our own national frontiers , to our new relationships which are developing fast in the European Community and to our obligations and opportunities in the exciting , but often perilous circumstances of the post Cold War world . |
| 26 | , Small birds , including great tits and bluetits , are unable to rear so many young because the caterpillars on which they depend are developing faster in the warmer summers . |
| 27 | Overseas Groups would publicise their plans for future visitors as at present at the annual meeting in January or February of each year and perhaps circulate how those plans are developing midway through the year for peoples information . |
| 28 | BLACKPOOL : Conservatives are meeting here with the pound sliding around their ears . |
| 29 | ‘ And because the transfer rules have still to be approved people who trade quota now are operating completely in the dark as far as ring fences around transfer areas , the siphon or other regulations are concerned . ’ |
| 30 | It says two Darlington pubs the Hole in the Wall and Lascelles Park are operating well under the new leases and that they are a unique way of putting pubs on a proper commercial footing . |