Example sentences of "they [verb] to [be] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The long wait was almost over and they expected to be greeting the passengers in a few minutes . |
| 2 | Sometimes better ( > ) for passive motion ; they want to be carried the whole time but even then they may not be quietened for long and will demand to be carried by someone else . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly , therefore , they appear to be reaching a higher level of competence . |
| 4 | The argument developed in this chapter is that teachers can ill afford to take this blinkered attitude towards LMS , even if in doing so they appear to be adopting a coping strategy that enables them to focus on those aspects of their work that they see as most important . |
| 5 | They seen to be watching the passengers . |
| 6 | There was Charles , talking to the new proprietor of the Informer ( plotting no doubt ) and there was her daughter Sally arm in arm with Nat Higsby from the Tavistock : they seemed to be singing a duet . |
| 7 | But the cook was in fine form and they seemed to be thawing a bit when I left them chattering away in Greek with Denholm sitting among them and not understanding a word they were saying . |
| 8 | They seemed to be doing a good job . |
| 9 | They seemed to be making a point on reception of continually stressing , ‘ This is prison so you 'd better get used to it . |
| 10 | And they had hundreds and hundreds of hens in deep litter and they seemed to be making a lot of money out of it . |
| 11 | They seemed to be growing a green carpet . |
| 12 | They seemed to be having a quarrel . |
| 13 | By about 1000 BC much smaller cattle began to appear and they came to be called the Celtic oxen , their different skull shape giving rise to the term Bos brachyceros or Bos longifrons , though they were not in fact of a separate species but members of the Bos taurus species like other longhorns and shorthorns in temperate regions . |
| 14 | They seem to be allowing the targeting of young people through advertising , but , because of the tax regime that they have introduced in the past few years , they seem to be exporting jobs in the tobacco industry . |
| 15 | ‘ Now they seem to be taking the same supine approach to the milk and potato marketing boards , where the Government is in the process of selling out the interests of farmers . |
| 16 | To an Elf or a Dwarf , they seem to be having a violent argument . |
| 17 | So what 's interesting here is that they seem to be having a conversation about un the university matters , the history department and so on but in fact there 's this kind of subtext going on here in which both of them want to find out about the other person 's children and both of them are being very mysterious and avoiding the question . |
| 18 | At the Pont d'Espagne the road ends , but you can then take a reasonably comfortable path , for about three-quarters of an hour , up through the tumbled rock and ailing pine trees — they seem to be fighting a losing battle against the colonies of grey lichen — to the Lac de Gaube , at an altitude of a trifle under 6000 feet . |
| 19 | They seem to be weighing the incident carefully in their minds . |
| 20 | One thing they seem to be giving the skateboards a rest are n't they ? |
| 21 | And now a point we have now done that , we have now done one , right that is now going to be dealt with by Simon and introduced by Monica are they going to be dated the day she produces them or what are going to be dated ? |
| 22 | And they like to be taught a new board game |
| 23 | The proponents of the transnational relations approach have a tendency to analyze interactions within systems rather than effects of practices and , though they claim to be transcending the statecentric model , they more often than not permit the state to set the agenda for them . |
| 24 | ‘ In the past , waters from abandoned mines have been managed because they had to be to keep the other mines open , ’ he said . |
| 25 | They hoped to be spared the details . |
| 26 | Students may use this form to indicate whether they wish to be awarded a certificate or DipHE as a terminal or intermediate award and may even indicate the order in which their two fields are to be listed on their transcript and CNAA parchment . |
| 27 | Students use Form M39 to indicate whether they wish to be awarded a BA or BSc should there be a choice because they are taking two neutral fields or a combination of arts and science fields . |
| 28 | ‘ Some three and four year olds ' teeth are so bad they have to be given a general anaesthetic to have six or more teeth pulled out . |
| 29 | If students are to exercise personal judgements , they have to be given a measure of personal responsibility for their work . |
| 30 | She says that they need to be fed every two hours or so . |