Example sentences of "they [be] talking [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the heat of debate , when one side may accuse the other of not knowing what they are talking about , both sides will still assume they are talking about the same thing . |
| 2 | Football was used as a way of encouraging working people to buy or hire televisions in the 1950s with the slogan ‘ When they are talking about the big match on TV will you have to remain silent ? ’ |
| 3 | The people who employ me , the Eastern Health and Social Services Board and the government , in the past have called us in the RVH , and now it all depends who they are talking to — if they are talking to the American delegation we are Marxist revolutionaries and if they are talking to other delegations they have branded us as Provos . |
| 4 | I 'd just like to say that only Conservatives could actually put need in one paragraph and slip straight into financial in the next and I assume they 're talking about the same thing . |
| 5 | They were talking of the developed countries , of course , perhaps with North America mainly in mind . |
| 6 | They were talking to a Coptic family , parents and two children . |
| 7 | Again , er they were talking at the higher reach of our number |
| 8 | and they were talking about a new system which I could n't hear because of vacuum cleaner was on |
| 9 | Well they were talking about the eleven plus you see |
| 10 | Two people who think they are disagreeing may , in fact , be talking about different things and would n't disagree if they were talking about the same thing , but it 's important to recognise that when the university and colleges talk about what they want to do about sexual harassment , they certainly imagine that a range of different forms of response are going to be appropriate to this range of different forms of behaviour , ranging from on the one hand education , encouraging people to think they have a right to protest and answer back , to giving them access to erm people who may mediate and persuade another person who they 're not making an impact on that their behaviour is unreasonable , to the most extreme disciplinary procedures against someone who 's behaving in a way which is generally thought to be unacceptable and who 's not prepared to desist . |