Example sentences of "[that] they [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However erm one thing I think that 's got to be borne in mind and it picks up a point that erm Leeds have made , is that they 're looking towards trendy migration , they say . |
| 2 | The listener indicates that they 're listening through non-verbal signals , mms and aahs , stretched out final syllables ( ‘ and th-e-n ’ ) , paraphrasing and summarising . |
| 3 | Hassan meanwhile ( between endless rushes to airports , trying to convince faceless , emotionless authorities that they 're dealing with genuine political refugees ) realises his life must find time for love as well as small ‘ p ’ politics . |
| 4 | This man has the unenviable task of telling hungry women and children queueing for food that they 're waiting in vain . |
| 5 | LABOUR Party branch members in Crook let it be known that they are looking for new blood to inject a little life and optimism into their ranks . |
| 6 | Be aware of the assumptions that they are making concerning human nature ( McGregor ) . |
| 7 | French Socialists prepare to feast on crumbs of comfort The Socialists have been told so often that they are heading for total rout in tomorrow 's election that they will be relieved if they manage the 20 per cent predicted by the polls , writes Diana Geddes in Paris |
| 8 | In a design of this kind , where the flowers and leaves are built up in layers , you should try to look at the outline that will be visible ( in this case , the outer leaves ) , and make sure that they are lying at pleasing angles . |
| 9 | That they are going from bad to worse . |
| 10 | This showed how very different everything was from the situation that had developed in England over the course of centuries , and colonial developments always gave Englishmen the idea that they were moving into empty land and seeing what could be made out of it . |
| 11 | On April 21 the Yemeni Deputy Information Minister Amakal Alim Susawa confirmed that Yemen had made a written offer to Saudi Arabia for discussions , after the latter had informed at least four foreign oil companies that they were trespassing on Saudi property . |
| 12 | Did anyone out there , when they saw the movie , realize that they were smoking for real ? |
| 13 | The strongest signal of Moscow 's fury with the intransigent Romanian regime came when Pravda , the Communist Party daily newspaper , reported favourably on the demonstrators in Timisoara , saying that they were looking for rapid reforms in the country . |
| 14 | First , they used variable and often vague definitions of abuse , so that in many cases it was not clear that they were dealing with established cases of abuse . |
| 15 | Even in the smaller specific groups , women often felt that they were struggling against thinly-disguised misogyny . |
| 16 | There remained one other tactic in these years , which had an earlier antislavery history too , designed to provide a role for individual abolitionists in England and convince them that they were contributing to advancing freedom internationally ; it was the tactic of economic boycott of slave-grown raw materials or goods produced from them . |
| 17 | He , he , he said that at one point this chap had used the phrase that well that they were going for controlled destabilization from the Health Service . |
| 18 | The key to this paradox is that they were talking about different kinds of capitalists . |
| 19 | I understand that they were working to commissioned orders for a very wide range of goods and products , which were then sold in government-run shops in local towns . |