Example sentences of "they are [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paradoxically , the more moderate of them are insisting on the maintenance of their block votes because the party is still not fully democratic . |
| 2 | A great majority of them are looking for the theatre of books , and it is not there . |
| 3 | Little wonder , really , that right now the two of them are looking for the time of their life with someone of their own age . |
| 4 | Four of them are bubbling around the kitchen and the other two are in the front room keeping an eye on the visitors , roped up on the floor watching two blacks the size of quarter-backs shaking through their jackets . |
| 5 | And what about overtime on Sa I mean at the moment some of them are working during the week and Saturdays and they need that to maintain the sort of service level that we 're doing at the moment . |
| 6 | ‘ Old people are their life , it 's not just a business venture for them , they genuinely care and they are speaking from the heart , ’ he said . |
| 7 | There is no shame in their situation and they are participating in the disintegration of the moral force of respectability which would once have shamed them within their own class and community . |
| 8 | And they may be torn three ways , between the practical direction they are getting in the school , the advice they are being given in college and by their teaching practice tutor , and their own developing sense of the kind of teacher they would or would not like to become . |
| 9 | ‘ There are far too many media people and they are getting in the way of everyone else . |
| 10 | Several hotel and leisure groups are already beginning to diversify into this field : they are aiming at the top and more lucrative end of the market , charging fees well above the DSS limits . |
| 11 | But , he added ‘ While these people have a right to live as they want , they are infringing on the rights of other people . |
| 12 | We can now add that controlling ensures that the travellers know how well they are progressing along the route , how correct their map is , and what deviations , if any , they need to make to stay on course . |
| 13 | Yamaha Electronics have recently released details of the new 1992 range of hi-fi separates and systems that they are bringing into the UK from the parent company . |
| 14 | Today , millions of Japanese may be unaware that they are dining on the namesake of their late military governor , ‘ Big Mac ’ . |
| 15 | and they are helping with the children in the house , I mean , they ca n't do much more ! |
| 16 | I accept that , but none of the other districts are g are are making the point that 's Selby 's making , that the level of unemployment that they are encountering across the economy , not necessarily just in this sector of the economy , justifies the doubling of the of the of the allocation put forward . |
| 17 | Furthermore , this Convention also requires that acceptance of the right or obligation by the third party organisation be in accordance with its constitutive rules , which again assumes that they are binding on the organisation , although contained in a treaty to which it is not a party . |
| 18 | Careful investigation often shows that these people have a dual problem : they are sensitive to foods and chemicals on the one hand , and they are hyperventilating on the other . |
| 19 | They are home for a week or a month ; the rest of the time they are wandering about the world . |
| 20 | One by one they are screaming at the top of their voices , like naughty adolescent vixens . |
| 21 | People can not be protected by the law when they are conspiring against the government . ’ |
| 22 | I mean , seeing the amount of kids that do go out there , and the state of the changing rooms that they are using at the moment , I , I think it 's really degrading . |
| 23 | ‘ They are cowering in the Wolfwood , Nuadu Airgetlam . |
| 24 | They are helping to move soil into a garden they are building at the school with the help of mums , dads and teachers . |
| 25 | The flaws which they are building into the system ( which even Phil is building into the system ) — the endemic morbidity of man and the lethal hostility of his environment — are not incidental but essential . |
| 26 | I think all this campaign is not because they are thinking about the interests of poor people , that 's a lie . |
| 27 | Perhaps they are thinking of the soaraway end of the market ? |
| 28 | Perhaps they are thinking of the soaraway end of the market ? |
| 29 | They are benefiting from the opportunity to eavesdrop on an interaction . |
| 30 | Unit provision should enable pupils to have their special needs met in an individual way whilst they are benefiting from the environment of an ordinary school . |