Example sentences of "they [be] [v-ing] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are removing many of the distortions that have made investors look elsewhere in the past . |
| 2 | In addition , a number of people who have gone through our study seminars keep in touch with us and tell us that they are using some of the things they 've learned here to be exposed here for their own work , but it 's very difficult to tell . |
| 3 | They are training some of the region 's future central bankers . |
| 4 | Why should you worry if they are losing much of their investment ? ’ |
| 5 | As the economic crisis has got worse , the attention the government has given to education has got less to the point where instead of opening schools they are closing some of them , because — so they say — they ca n't pay the teachers ' salaries . |
| 6 | It is all too easy for the Germans to accept the glib axiom that whatever is good for Germany is good for Europe , and the ‘ European ’ gloss may permit them to pursue their own interests while trying to convince others , and even perhaps convincing themselves , that they are doing this for Europe . |
| 7 | ‘ They are doing this by the usual process of blaming the Unionists for it all and insinuating that if only the Unionists would talk to the SDLP and through them to Dublin , then everything would calm down and peace and good would reign supreme . ’ |
| 8 | I did say that their attitude has changed from a generation ago and I think they are doing more at home than men did a generation ago . |
| 9 | So they 're getting half from the plan , and half from their employer . |
| 10 | From the time of the marriage he cut himself off entirely from his brother , but it was n't only from Matthew : he became more and more of a recluse until now he hardly sees anyone but the people he meets in the course of his business — and they 're getting fewer by the month . |
| 11 | Or , they maybe replacing some of these but they got plenty of these , or they 're replacing some of these but they 've got plenty of these ? |
| 12 | They 're telling some of the stories that go off like , you know . |
| 13 | They 're building more for council houses . |
| 14 | Yeah I mean , they 're upgrading all of the machines at work but what they 're doing is instead of throwing them out , those who do n't use P Cs that often are being given the slower machines and those that as part of their job function , they need something much faster have been given the the newer machines . |
| 15 | They 'll only be there for about twenty four hours , they 'll go for about a week but they 're spending most of it with er , Deborah down at erm , Bambury |
| 16 | I 'm not saying it 's one that the tribunal should have accepted , but , but , but what I 'm saying is th there is an element of psychological truth in that , because if Freud 's theories if er bond Freud theory group behaviour is correct , then that does seem to happen some extent that the leader as it were takes and presumably this is why some people erm presumably er feel better in groups , perhaps that they get something out of a group that their own ego can not provide , but other people are uncomfortable in groups because they feel that their ego is being alienated and they 're losing some of their some of their power . |
| 17 | Well do n't keep going too long with them if they 're doing that to you Cathy cos |
| 18 | When we 're away though next week , I think they 'll do quite a lot of stuff inside and But they 're doing some for The same team are doing some friends of ours on Main Road and of course most of the people are down there . |
| 19 | They were regarding this as a special occasion . |
| 20 | This could either have been because their services were more expensive , or because they were providing more of them . |
| 21 | Rapid acceleration gave pilots a false nose-up sense and they were correcting this with nose-down on the flying controls and flying into the ground . |
| 22 | They were discussing some of the howlers from 1066 and All That . ’ |
| 23 | Anyway , he thought they would be drifting apart a bit now , perversely but predictably because they were seeing more of each other , not just weekends ; Stock stayed the night at the horrible little place in Islington quite often , but Slater thought Sara might be getting bored with the black-leather macho man . |
| 24 | They were hit early on , and on January 21st the allies announced that they were shifting more of their attacks to the dug-in ground forces . |
| 25 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |
| 26 | Er , it was one of one of the channels yes talking to these stars you know and they were relating their training and also they were showing some of the best some of the best shots of them in action in films . |
| 27 | Despite the higher standard of living they were offering most of their inhabitants , they were economically a little too isolated to attract much attention . |
| 28 | In the Amazon , the numbers of Indians declined , ceasing to be a threat to western expansion , so that by the second half of the last century , they were becoming more of a curiosity , regarded as anachronistic impediments to progress , which had to be educated on Christian lines on the one hand , the true lords of the territory to be given their freedom on the other . |
| 29 | A few years ago they were making some of the best pop singles you could play on a jukebox : ‘ Something About You ’ , ‘ Leaving Me Now ’ , ‘ Lessons In Love ’ , all the kind of thing that you felt you were going to be sick of hearing before long but which still sounded good after the thousandth time . |
| 30 | They were doing that in a number of ways . |