Example sentences of "they [be] missing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could I appeal to running shoe manufacturers to open their eyes and realise that they are missing out on a valuable section of the market ? |
| 2 | The pity is that they are missing so much ; for instance , they will never know what it is like to fish a small stream , or any river except perhaps a sluggish canal-like one . |
| 3 | It is … no defense of consigning either humans or animals to environments that ignore their biological , social , or psychological interests … to claim that these individuals do not know what they are missing and so can not be any worse off for not having it . |
| 4 | Sun Microsystems Inc has denied that it has plans to develop a Sparc implementation of Microsoft Corp 's NT operating system , as reported last week in the US paper Open Systems Today : the paper quoted Sun president Scott McNealy as saying ‘ NT needs to be ported to Sparc — if they [ Microsoft ] do n't do it , they are missing the boat ’ ; despite the denials , observers hint darkly that some sort of effort involving Sparc and Microsoft is under way , and will come to the surface over the next few months . |
| 5 | If they [ Microsoft ] do n't do it , they are missing the boat ’ . |
| 6 | Le Mee says : ‘ I think they are missing something . |
| 7 | They have no idea what they are missing . |
| 8 | ‘ But that means they are missing out on the communication and the enjoyment of talking and shopping . |
| 9 | They are missing out on a lot of talent in people who I think put more into their job . ’ |
| 10 | The police makes them streetwise within no time at all , but they 're missing out on something ’ ( FN 9/8/87 , p. 3 ) . |
| 11 | But they 're missing him badly , they say . |
| 12 | If with the people of Irish city centres there 's an undercurrent feel of inferiority — apparent through outside enforcement — the youth of Tullermeny are n't even aware that they 're missing out on anything . |
| 13 | And they do n't know what they 're missing . |
| 14 | It is a joy they 're missing , but it is never revealed to them . |
| 15 | The company tours throughout the north of England , and opera-goers who never venture past the Watford Gap simply do n't know what they 're missing . |
| 16 | Then you feel guilty about the children — they ca n't get as much love and attention from one parent , so you worry they 're missing out . |
| 17 | This lot read about all these teenage orgies and think they 're missing out somehow. ? |
| 18 | It 's the sort of picture which people who are not interested in photography would n't even bother with , probably , but see what they 're missing ? |
| 19 | ‘ I always think they 're missing out on a good thing . |
| 20 | It 's time , they get to start recording , but they 're missing the lyrics , so she ca n't sing . |
| 21 | United should be unchanged tonight but that means they 're missing the suspended Magilton and the injured Beachamp … |
| 22 | All are the same , and they 're missing the top and you 'd have to pay . |
| 23 | They 're missing out that . |
| 24 | So , thought I 'll get them all washed and put back in bedroom before he notices they 're missing . |
| 25 | Thus they were missing out a vital dimension of proper assessment — a family diagnosis — and in the process were leaving parents anxious , uninformed and isolated . |
| 26 | In the 1830s the farmers of Burwell fen began to realize that they were missing out on the prosperity achieved through drainage by their neighbours at Swaffham . |
| 27 | Paneth and Peters would never have been able to make helium from hydrogen as they were missing the neutrons ; replace the hydrogen with deuterium and you may have a chance of success . |
| 28 | The manufacturers were generally happy with the BEA 's conservatism , which suited their export concentration on low technology markets , and gave them a relatively easy and highly profitable life ( though as the 1950s advanced more of them were to become worried that they were missing out on new technical developments as their world market share slipped ) . |
| 29 | Mothers complained that their children were at risk from other serious diseases because they were missing out on vaccinations because of repeated colds . |
| 30 | One Sunday evening they were missing at bedtime , and Hindley ordered me angrily to lock the front door . |