Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] be [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good . |
| 2 | However they also felt that they had been expecting most children to write in sentences at too early an age . |
| 3 | Handsome , smiling and smartly suited , he was an immediate hit , all the more so when their mother told them that they had been married that morning . |
| 4 | They were too far away for her to recognise faces , but she could imagine John and Angela among them , unaware that they had been pursued all the way from Romania . |
| 5 | On the following day , Stanley told the Finance Committee of the India Council that they had been offered this site , and pointed out the advantages of buying the land from the Government rather than obtaining a special Act of Parliament . |
| 6 | The twelve select committees established by the Commons in December 1979 seem to have attracted enough criticism from the executive to suggest that they have been asking some pertinent questions , but their overall impact on policy has so far been slight . |
| 7 | So Iraq has now formally asked the Turks to shorten the cut-off period but the Turks reply that they have been releasing more water down the river and the Iraquis should have been able to build up stocks . |
| 8 | The newspaper industry would be just as hard hit … and they 've been using all the means at their disposal to wage war with the Chancellor . |
| 9 | Yeah it 's more difficult to keep up with others if they if they 're older and they 've been learning this stuff for a lot longer |
| 10 | ‘ And they 've been having some restoration work done on it . |
| 11 | And they 've been smashing all different people 's ones . |
| 12 | And they 'd been commissioned both of them . |
| 13 | XYZ Foods are well-known for their pioneering work in the field of slimming foods and they have been researching this pack for the last year . |
| 14 | It would have been much better if they had been getting some therapy to help them understand why they needed to take drugs in the first place . |
| 15 | Then , hoping he could remember enough of the ancient language of chivalry and selecting his words with extreme care , he said , ‘ Good Trees , we ask your assistance , ’ and saw the Elms nod to one another meaningfully , as if they had been expecting all along to be asked to do something for the Humans . |
| 16 | Even if they had been trying all the years between . |
| 17 | More recently the Solstice has attracted thousands of New Age travellers , but they 've been banned this year by the same injuctions that now govern Castlemorton common in Worcestershire , where an illegal festival just over a year ago attracted 20,000 travellers . |
| 18 | But they have been saying that for 20 years . |
| 19 | Because they had been told that research shows that the teaching of grammar restricts the imagination , imposing a strait-jacket of conventions , they did not realise that it all depends on what kind of grammar is taught and in what contexts . |
| 20 | But BBC officials are waking up to the fact that , while they have been allocated both of Britain 's channels for high-power satellite broadcasts , the kind that could be received direct into people 's homes , they have no monopoly on low-power transmissions from satellites , the kind that could be picked up by central receiving stations — and transmitted via cable to homes . |
| 21 | They started to especially trainee managers , spending periods of time in the smaller branch , and they 've got to get on with that concern , but I think there are benefits since they 've been doing that . |
| 22 | So after they 'd been using this stuff with no windows open or anything , one of the workmen began to feel a little bit groggy so he said to his mate and open the back door Charlie , will you , I 'm feeling a bit groggy . |
| 23 | These 42ft vehicles were sleeping saloons and , after they had been running some little time , some ordinary coaches 34ft in length , carried on six wheels , were built ; these had a total wheel base of 22ft , or 11 ft between centres . |
| 24 | Here their superiors criticise them for failing after they have been given such brilliant training . |
| 25 | It is what people do with them after they have been issued that 's the problem . |
| 26 | However , the spokesman said : ‘ It now looks as though they had been fighting each other and nobody else was involved . ’ |
| 27 | When they landed there was no choice but to start the ten-mile journey to Achnacarry Castle on foot , so they set off , even though they had been walking all day . |
| 28 | ‘ You see , ’ he went on as though they had been talking all afternoon , ‘ I had no idea until this morning that you were in the same state as I. ’ |
| 29 | We also discussed with GEC Avionics the possibility of providing their diagnostic information in a compatible , electronic format as they had been doing some work in the same area . |
| 30 | Erm , but it is a body , it 's corpus as in body and and what the British National Corpus is doing , is putting together a massive amount of spoken English , erm , from all sorts of different contexts , and one of the contexts which they want spoken English from is an educational context , and so they are having to record you people , as they 've been recording some other people erm , in other educational institutions around the country and so on . |