Example sentences of "be [v-ing] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine how it feels ( if you are the incumbent MP ) to know that , that very morning , thousands of people are devoting their whole attention to getting rid of you . |
| 2 | I think it is a pity that so many anglers are devoting their whole fishing careers to the one species . |
| 3 | Pictured with him is the group 's chairman , Tony Edwards one of 22 mainly unemployed people who are building their own homes during the project . |
| 4 | Retailers at the Lakeside Shopping Centre in Thurrock in Essex are seeing their best business for many months . |
| 5 | There can be little doubt that we are seeing their real diversions , that these are their own instruments and the clothes they would really have worn . |
| 6 | But now they are defying their own interests too . |
| 7 | Ever seeking perfection , Oxford this year are using their new training centre . |
| 8 | The shareholders are thereby given the power to judge for themselves whether the directors are using their managerial powers for their own benefit at the expense of the company and if this is so to veto the transaction or at least hold the director liable for any profits thereby made . |
| 9 | We can infer from this that when the authors concerned start out to describe the institutions of an alien exotic social system they are using their own society as a model of normality . |
| 10 | I mean my , one of my friend 's sons , he was a computer man , he was working on his own but he 's in his I should think he 's getting on for about forty six and he was doing freelance but this recession the people who er the firms who were employing him are using their own staff and they 're not calling on him now and er he 's not done any computing for twelve months . |
| 11 | With this approach , the language experience approach , the learners ’ interest is held because they are using their own words and telling their own story . |
| 12 | It will also help you to keep track of how they are using their free time |
| 13 | The series was scheduled before the current ‘ Cop Killer ’ controversy , and once again Warners are using their considerable muscle to promote their man : HBO is owned by Time-Warner . |
| 14 | The children are producing their own spelling dictionary which is freely available to the whole class . |
| 15 | And although overseas sales are steadily growing , many countries , such as the US , Germany , Italy , and the UK , are producing their own robots , and using them innovatively in a variety of non-manufacturing applications . |
| 16 | Individualists who deny that these claims explain anything at all are , in effect , simply reasserting the hegemony of the interest from which individualism draws its life , while holists are pursuing their own concern with the constraining power of society . |
| 17 | Mr Coulter said : ‘ It is becoming clear that building societies are pursuing their own interests by rescheduling loans or entering into shared ownership agreements , rather than biting the bullet of low interest loans to housing associations . ’ |
| 18 | Helped by local artist Sian Parry , they have been using their artistic talents to brighten hoardings around the site of Llandudno 's £4m arts , leisure and convention centre complex , with paintings inspired by the sea , fairy tales and the story of Alice in Wonderland . |
| 19 | They have been using their artistic talents to brighten up hoardings around the site of the resort 's new £4m arts , leisure and convention centre complex . |
| 20 | Despite the defeat , Coventry can be satisfied with their form against the League champions , who are enjoying their best spell of the season — unbeaten in 11 games . |
| 21 | The couple are enjoying their first holiday together travelling around California in a caravan , according to German newspaper Bild . |
| 22 | Businessmen are enjoying their first boom for ten years . |
| 23 | While the adults are enjoying their special Christmas drinks with the celebration meal , you could be drinking delicious Louisiana Lemonade , made with frozen raspberries . |
| 24 | Four hundred soldiers are completing their final training before a six month tour of duty in Bosnia and Croatia . |
| 25 | I 'm not sure that withholding diplomatic recognition is the best way to approach that , after all diplomatic recognition is concerned really with the effective control of territory and things like that rather than with moral principles , however , I think that er , when the Soviet Republics are signing their new Union Treaty or Commonwealth Treaty or whatever it 's going to be called by that time , this question should be amongst the most important to be tackled there , that 's to say the rights of ethnic minorities living in Republican Territories , that they should have the right to educate their children in their own language , that they should have the right to their own religion and so on and so forth . |
| 26 | It 's a story that 's been told thousands of times since Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol , and now a group of disabled students from Herefordshire Technical college 's assisted learning unit are staging their own version . |
| 27 | Oxford City are opening their new ground at marston … with a local derby … |
| 28 | Oxford City are opening their new ground at marston … with a local derby … |
| 29 | Formed from the ashes of various small-time Amsterdam bands , BS had been minding their own business playing local gigs until a friend sent a demo to Gerard Cosloy at Matador Records in America — first home of Teenage Fanclub and currently Superchunk . |
| 30 | ‘ They are protecting their miserable skins while Ireland falls further into my grasp . ’ |