Example sentences of "are [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amid all this turmoil and red ink , the aircraft manufacturers ( America 's Boeing and McDonnell Douglas , and the European consortium , Airbus Industrie ) together with the jet-engine makers ( America 's General Electric and Pratt & Whitney , and Britain 's Rolls-Royce ) are nervously sitting on the biggest backlog of orders in their history . |
| 2 | That is especially so at this time , when we are effectively handing from Parliament to Ministers the right to decide , on private Bills , to lay orders . |
| 3 | An important point concerning all modules apart from the character recogniser is that they are effectively acting as filters in this context , i.e. they can not contribute further interpretations of the data . |
| 4 | To say that a certain village enjoys a certain level of accessibility is to summarize much too crudely the position of the middle-class person in a two-car household and the elderly person without a car because , as Moseley ( 1979a ) so correctly points out , these neighbours are effectively living in different worlds in terms of mobility . |
| 5 | They claimed that ‘ voices demanding Pakistan 's withdrawal ’ from these pacts were ‘ increasing ’ , and that ‘ the Iranian people are effectively campaigning for Iran 's withdrawal from the aggressive CENTO bloc , the abrogation of the military treaty with America and for Iran 's return to a policy of neutrality ’ . |
| 6 | Instead we are arguing that all academic texts are effectively working with a particular brief and it is important that this be either spelled out in the production of academic texts or taken apart systematically by the readership . |
| 7 | Simply by existing in a successful role , both bands are effectively working against that mentality . |
| 8 | The House will understand that , although we prefer these matters to be resolved by competitive tendering , in this case we are effectively talking about a single supplier , so it is vital to get the contract right . |
| 9 | On the one hand more men are effectively retiring in their fifties due to unemployment ( Walker and Walker , 1987 ) . |
| 10 | Those on the brink of buying are mostly waiting until the election is out of the way before committing themselves to a new house , but City financier Christopher Moran thinks they are all wrong . |
| 11 | They are mostly heading for Israel , but a lot would prefer to stay in Europe . |
| 12 | the axes are somewhere depending on these . |
| 13 | My window sills are badly rotting in places . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , in modern society , our ‘ own ’ are rarely living in the same town or even in the same county as us , which makes the ideal situation very difficult to achieve . |
| 15 | In sorry contrast to the Italian Village , several rows of two-storey brick houses are slowly rising from the ground . |
| 16 | Sir Geoff Mulcahy , the chairman and chief executive , sees a few tentative signs that shoppers are slowly emerging from their long hibernation , but they are doing so very warily . |
| 17 | Such interests are slowly diffusing to other feminist psychologists , who have previously been distanced from them by the constraints of the mainstream discipline . |
| 18 | Since they have been in Brazil things have not been easy but they have settled in well and are slowly coming to terms with the language . |
| 19 | The borings are concentrated high on the pillars but are remarkably lacking on the masonry lower down . |
| 20 | It 's hard not to get indigestion when eating with them as you are constantly chatting with them . |
| 21 | In nature small fish are constantly looking for food , and will eat small amounts whenever they find them . |
| 22 | Despite these finds , competition in the modelling business gets tougher every year , and agencies are constantly looking for new talent . |
| 23 | They are constantly looking for these changes , especially in situations which have previously been difficult . |
| 24 | As well as spending a great deal of time servicing existing customers we are constantly looking for new opportunities in developing markets around the world . |
| 25 | Today 's martial artists are constantly looking at other forms of combat technique in order to broaden and improve their own fighting methods . |
| 26 | Catering establishments of all types are constantly looking at ways of saving energy without reducing performance and there are a number of areas within the kitchen where such savings can be made . |
| 27 | In terms of safety we are constantly looking at it and if we can learn anything at all we 'll put whatever procedures we can in place . |
| 28 | The Bradford City supporters are constantly writing to the rag complaining of too much coverage for Leeds ( It really does piss them off ) . |
| 29 | As for the future he said : ‘ We are constantly striving for ways in which to improve quality and efficiency and to eliminate waste and mediocrity . |
| 30 | ‘ It is something we are constantly monitoring through our intelligence gathering work , which is linked through a Paisley-based computer to a worldwide network of customs intelligence . ’ |