Example sentences of "they [be] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Thus , when many people talk ( or think ) about CAD , they are referring to the secondary design activity wherein the seed of the idea is fully investigated and developed . |
| 2 | Fiona : They are facing in the wrong direction . |
| 3 | Whilst they are searching for the relevant information , their inventories of unsold goods will start to build up . |
| 4 | Now they are searching for the fourth sister Pamela , who walked out at the age of 15 after a row with her father . |
| 5 | Thus , the discount houses may be making losses on the loans they are repaying to the commercial banks . |
| 6 | They are stepping over the invisible , moralistic Maginot Line of the old culture of opposition . |
| 7 | Egg producers must recognise that they are competing in the sophisticated food industry of the late 1980s and that they have a responsibility to the consumer . |
| 8 | They are operating at the bottom end of the market with no capital and no security . |
| 9 | Now dinner is over and they are drifting into the other room at the front of the house . |
| 10 | The way they phrase the question reveals the fact they are thinking in the old materialistic and nationalistic terms . |
| 11 | For in that they are living in the modern world , and in so far ( one must say ) as they are good persons seeking to do what is right , conservatives must see much of the critique of past patriarchal relationships to be justified . |
| 12 | They are living in the same house , eating at the same table , and , in the case of Lizzie , part of my own being . |
| 13 | Many see their condition as a sign that the realms of men are about to collapse , that they are living in the last days of a dying world . |
| 14 | There are three equally spaced pointed arm spines on the proximal segments , but they are lacking on the distalmost segments . |
| 15 | Er two points , one comes onto environment for Mr who says that they are seeking for the environmental benefits to the A sixty one and relates something to the percentages . |
| 16 | If they are looking for the special therapist to ‘ cure ’ them , then , also they will be disappointed . |
| 17 | Of course the elves are in a wood at that moment , and they are looking at the early evening stars , but that is not what they mean . |
| 18 | For example , if the adult holds an object , such as a doll , in the child 's line of gaze , the child is likely to look at the object and then immediately glance at the adult 's face to check that they are looking at the same thing . |
| 19 | Thus for restrictive practices the burden of proof lies on the companies to show that they are acting in the public interest : in contrast , the legislation on monopolies is more open-minded , requiring the MMC to make the case that companies are acting against the public interest . |
| 20 | Codes The spaceship and its crew are trapped on a distant planet ; they need to understand the ( coded ) messages they are receiving from the alien inhabitants . |
| 21 | In case anyone should think that some of our commentary on IBM Corp and its problems is a little apocalyptic , hear what they are saying on the other side of the Atlantic : ‘ With IBM , there 's a question in my mind whether the company is going to exist five years from now , ’ Kenneth Heebner of Boston fund manager Capital Growth Management commented to the Wall Street Journal . |
| 22 | Erm , David , that really er is about er four point four , the parallel activity necessary sister companies er to erm make sure that the same message is getting across , and that whatever they are saying to the continental is actually supporting our attempts to er erm become the preferred supplier . |
| 23 | It is , on the whole , more likely that they are responding to the cumulative temperature building up slowly until a threshold has been passed , and they are away . |
| 24 | A female Canadian relative of mine says they are suffering in the same way . |
| 25 | This is why people who are the same age as one another usually end up being friends because they are going through the same experiences simultaneously . |
| 26 | Keith does not understand why they are going into the next room . |
| 27 | John Gorman says he hopes they 're going to have a very good season … he says they have nothing to fear … they are going into the unknown but that 's a good thing … there 's a hunger in the club … they 've got to go and enjoy it |
| 28 | There are various ways about that as there are with many road schemes er where there are structure plan policies for a particular scheme and there are arrows on key diagrams , there are many ways of getting from A to B er they are not er in terms of outer and inner , they are going from the same A to B. They they start and finish at the same locations , it is just a different way of getting from A to B. Which quite properly as I understand it would be a matter for debate er either at the local plan or if a planning application is made er earlier than that er then at a at a planning enquiry into the specific road proposal . |
| 29 | Those so-vital components are totally unconcerned if they are travelling in the latest in airline development or in a 1940s technology propliner . |
| 30 | But is n't the NI always telling us to distrust the authoritative views of experts , especially when they are pontificating about the Third World ? |