Example sentences of "they [am/are] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 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 | Only among the over-75s are men more likely to be caring than women ( 10 per cent compared with 6 per cent ) , mainly because of the care they are providing for a disabled spouse ( Evandron , 1990 , pp. 6–7 ) . |
| 6 | Now they are aiming for a new lease of life and further development . |
| 7 | Commuters read paperbacks as they sit in trains , but find that they may need to rest from this activity more frequently than when they are reading in a comfortable and well-lit place at home . |
| 8 | Thus , the discount houses may be making losses on the loans they are repaying to the commercial banks . |
| 9 | Many teachers try to obscure the fact that they are teaching in a multiracial school . |
| 10 | They are stepping over the invisible , moralistic Maginot Line of the old culture of opposition . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They are operating at the bottom end of the market with no capital and no security . |
| 13 | If they do , they are operating on an ignorant and irrational basis . |
| 14 | But it is the responsibility of every person on site to make sure that they are operating in a safe manner . |
| 15 | The fiscal argument is that welfare state benefits for the poor cost relatively less in the more affluent States , because they are drawing on a larger tax base ; the higher the average income in a State , the smaller the effort required to finance a programme at a given level of payments ( because presumably there will be both fewer recipients plus more rich people to tax than in States with low average incomes ) . |
| 16 | When speed sailors sail at high speeds ( 39 knots is the current record ) they have their sails in a close hauled position although they are sailing on a broad reach . |
| 17 | Now dinner is over and they are drifting into the other room at the front of the house . |
| 18 | The house is not very large — there are only 13 bedrooms in all — and this , together with the friendly , attentive service , combine to give guests the impression that they are staying in a graceful home rather than a hotel . |
| 19 | The way they phrase the question reveals the fact they are thinking in the old materialistic and nationalistic terms . |
| 20 | Failing this , a fit elderly neighbour may be willing to come , either voluntarily or for a small payment , which would be useful to them if they are living on a small pension . |
| 21 | Another clue comes from a paper by the Japanese psychiatrist Abe who has shown that the second twin is far more likely to develop the disease if they are living with an affected twin around the time of onset , as compared to the concordance rates for twins who are living apart . |
| 22 | They also made a good point , that all timber-frame houses should be formally recorded as such either by the NHBC or on the title deeds , ‘ so that people realise they are living in a timber-frame house and can take professional advice when making alterations ’ . |
| 23 | They are living in a ramshackle old farmhouse in the woods . |
| 24 | At that moment they are living in a monothematic world limited to one thought : to attain the goal they are fighting for . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They are living in the same house , eating at the same table , and , in the case of Lizzie , part of my own being . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | There are three equally spaced pointed arm spines on the proximal segments , but they are lacking on the distalmost segments . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Paul Corrigan suggests that teenagers behave the way they do at the seaside , or at football matches , because they are looking for a memorable experience to balance the boredom of the rest of their lives . |