Example sentences of "they [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly without a standardized definition research findings can be misleading and invariably confusing because they are referring to very different phenomena . |
| 2 | Much as many Ethiopians fear and loathe the government , they are calling for more political and economic freedom , and would not feel liberated by the TPLF . |
| 3 | Contributors to this volume were given no more precise brief than the provisional subtitle ‘ explorations in philosophy from a feminist perspective ’ , and they are working within quite different philosophical traditions and on different sorts of issues . |
| 4 | ‘ They are associating with much older children and , in some cases , adults . |
| 5 | Well they 're expecting at least two cars . |
| 6 | Membership of the Party increased dramatically to , to two million people and then the masses under leadership again saying there was , they 're , they 're looking at about ten million , and they 're saying half the peasants in the are organized , that these are , are people who are , who , who are at the forefront of the , of the movement , involvement is , is very high . |
| 7 | Police have described the man they 're looking for as white , in his early twenties , five feet eight to nine inches tall , and with a local accent . |
| 8 | They , they reckon they 're going for about ninety five to a hundred and five down there . |
| 9 | They 're working on more serious crime like armed robbery , robbery with violence and serious burglary . |
| 10 | And I have stayed ever since because when I joined Roadwatch it was at a time when they were developing from just 15 information stations throughout the country — there are now almost 100 . |
| 11 | By this time it was becoming obvious that in spite of the fact that the French were conveying the impression of a limited operation ‘ to restore order ’ ( which might be at least six months to a year ) they were hoping for more moderate Vietnamese leaders to emerge and , in the meantime , they would not after all negotiate with Ho Chi Minh . |
| 12 | They were dazzling with brilliantly coloured paintings . |
| 13 | They were celebrating with just 8 minutes to go when Rovers hit the winner . |
| 14 | Many of these fearful criticisms of the working class centred on the feeling that they were getting above their station in life , or that they were encroaching upon previously reserved territories of the middle class . |
| 15 | They were posing for just such a photocall at Klosters in February 1986 , when the photographers suddenly noticed another figure standing in the background , dressed in a Davy Crockett-style fur headband . |
| 16 | Now they were talking about perhaps four tons of bombs toppling out of the sky one morning when Dornhausen thought the war had passed it by . |