Example sentences of "they be doing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some cases might be summed up as ‘ What have they been doing wrong and how can they be put right ? ’ |
| 2 | It is thus both a ‘ What have they been doing wrong and how can it be put right ? ’ and a ‘ Which way should they go now ? ’ case . |
| 3 | Those still with troublesome suspicions should have asked themselves how Pakistan 's fast men could have survived the Cornhill Test series had they been doing something illegal to the ball while on view not only to alert umpires and batting opponents but to thousands of onlookers at the various grounds and before the probing eye of television . |
| 4 | What 've they been doing to you ? |
| 5 | What have they been doing all this time ? ’ |
| 6 | What had they been doing ? |
| 7 | or not long after so why have they been doing that if there 's nothing much to do ? |
| 8 | Cliff said , ‘ I am pleased to support ACET in the world they are doing . |
| 9 | There are times when it might seem that this is a definition which can produce the sense of a self which is both amorphous and autonomous , of a doubtful self which also serves to cast doubt on the human world that lies beyond the subjective individual — a world which some writers are , and some are not , very cunning in , and which is inhabited by people with a working knowledge of who they are and what they are doing . |
| 10 | Choose your coach with care ; be sure that they know what they are doing for the theatre and actor of today . |
| 11 | They become quite unconscious of what they are doing for a few seconds , and yet insist that they want to carry on and learn to fly . |
| 12 | ‘ You will be saying next that that is what they are doing in France . |
| 13 | I listen to the World Federalists and the Communists talk about One World and The Brotherhood of Man and how much they are doing to bring them about . |
| 14 | These readings are intermittently illuminating , if reductive , and basically they are doing what criticism has always done , which is to interpret the works of the past in the terms and concepts of the critic 's own age . |
| 15 | A lot of my friends are pleased that the company is doing the job they are doing . |
| 16 | All they are doing is making a lot more money out of a lot more misery . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Clubs will get on the box , ’ he says , ‘ if they are doing well and at home to one of the big boys . |
| 18 | They believe that the current slaughter policy is a political expedient designed to allow ministers to show that they are doing something to curb food poisoning . |
| 19 | ‘ Bluff ’ is a recipe which consists of giving the impression to the public that the police know what they are doing when they do not . |
| 20 | When young supporters chant ‘ We 'll be running round Pompey with our willies hanging out , singing I 've got a bigger one than you ’ , or some other scatological rhyme , slightly changed to fit the time and place , they are doing nothing new . |
| 21 | Rather than recognise points about themselves that need changing , what they are doing is changing their partner for a new one . |
| 22 | Determined not to repeat past mistakes they are doing things differently this time round . |
| 23 | And if retailers do indeed start charging less for cash purchases than for those bought on credit cards , ensure that this is precisely what they are doing and not merely surcharging credit card users . |
| 24 | ‘ If we comb through our stories and one encounters with wild whales and dolphins , we find that they seem to hang together along a shining thread — that whales and dolphins know what they are doing , that their actions are purposeful , and stunningly specific to the occasion , that they intend us no harm , that they are aware . |
| 25 | Japanese firms prefer to conspire rather than compete with each other , complain American rivals , and now they are doing it in our own backyard |
| 26 | So when the Japanese cut production in a slumping market , as they are doing this year , these high overhead costs are spread over fewer chips . |
| 27 | INVESTORS , traders , bankers and managers often operate with only a partial model in mind about why they are doing whatever it is they are doing , and what principles lie behind it . |
| 28 | INVESTORS , traders , bankers and managers often operate with only a partial model in mind about why they are doing whatever it is they are doing , and what principles lie behind it . |
| 29 | Black films remain small beer ; they are doing little to shape the movie business . |
| 30 | Suppose you are on drugs and you know what they are doing to your body but you ca n't break the habit . |