Example sentences of "they are [verb] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although many local authorities in their strategy documents state that they aim first at rehabilitation , I remain unconvinced that they are devoting the same resources in terms of skilled social workers with small caseloads and adequate financial support to natural families , as they do to finding and supporting new families . |
| 2 | When people talk together about marriage they often assume they are discussing the same thing . |
| 3 | Only a little thought will show what a nonsense this is , for , as we have just seen , no two individuals manifest their illnesses in exactly the same way even if they are given the same disease label . |
| 4 | When Montaigne and Bacon stress the determining power of social custom they are developing the same idea of an order prior to and determining of consciousness , though now of course with the crucial difference that it is a non-teleological order , historical rather than divine , material rather than metaphysical . |
| 5 | Although spiders and insects hear the world in a very different way from us , they are sampling the same sounds carried through the air . |
| 6 | We do not object to women working the keyboards , so long as they are paid the same wages as men . |
| 7 | If he can look that prospect squarely in the eye and both parties cut out the cheap jibes , they will see that they are talking the same language . |
| 8 | Now what we have to know is whether or not they are in fact getting these contracts because they are the best and the cheapest , or whether they are getting it because they have the best connections and they are paying the most money . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , ’ she said after a moment 's pause , ‘ of course they are doing the same job up to a point and that 's never an easy pattern of work . |
| 10 | One believes they are making the same mistakes as the oil companies made — ‘ giving away the product in the hope of buying customers ’ . |