Example sentences of "what they are [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … free People today announced what they are demanding in exchange for the release of Liam Shakespeare . |
| 2 | Then the leader needs to make time for members of the group to say what they are aiming at in their walk with God and to give time for mutual ministry and prayer . |
| 3 | The four basic types of activity offered in Conversation are : controlled activities to give students confidence and support ; awareness activities to increase students ' sensitivity to what they are aiming at ; fluency activities to give students the practice they need to use English for communication ; and feedback tasks to allow students to reflect on their own performance so that they become aware of areas in which they have to improve . |
| 4 | Perhaps this attitude of ‘ cooling it ’ , ‘ turning off ’ , ‘ keeping his head down ’ , ‘ disengaging ’ on the part of the failing student is a special case of what Roy Cox ( 1967 ) had in mind when he said : ‘ It is clear that where students are assessed in a way which is not seen to be relevant to what they are aiming at they will tend to distort and degrade the assessment so that it does not become a source of esteem . ’ |
| 5 | Not only do they write of their personal experiences , speculations and fears , they also begin to imagine what people they know are thinking , saying , and most of all , what they are typing into their word-processors . |
| 6 | His competitors , in turn , once they become aware of what they are competing against , are forced to sweeten still further the opportunities they make available to the market ; and so on . |
| 7 | Schedules are handy reference points , ways of showing clients what they are getting for their money , and the bases on which the media people actually go out to buy time and space . |
| 8 | Our pest control customers are now being provided with considerable detail about what they are getting for their money , which is quite right and proper . |
| 9 | He has variously claimed that from farts he can tell not only what people have eaten or drunk , but also the sort of person they are , what they ought to eat , whether they are emotionally unstable or upset , whether they are keeping secrets , laughing at you behind your back or trying to ingratiate themselves with you , and even what they are thinking about at the precise moment they issue the fart ( this largely from the sound ) . |
| 10 | I wonder what they are watching for . |
| 11 | natural and I 'm and I never was , but I like to know what I 'm voting for and I like to tell the people who I 'm responsible for what they are voting for . |
| 12 | What they are writing about in reality are the ideal standards of their own social group , those that give meaning to their work practice even if they do not always live up to them . |
| 13 | There 15 some evidence that children perform at a higher level in their reading when they are really interested in what they are reading about ( Belloni and Jongsma , 1978 ) , and project work would seem an ideal area in which this could happen . |
| 14 | They worry what they are reading like terriers . |
| 15 | And there is a high proportion of people who know a good deal about what they are looking at and may even have seen it before . |
| 16 | And doctors look in people 's ears all the time , but eight out of ten do n't know what they are looking at . |
| 17 | In this way you are getting the students involved in thinking about what they are looking at , and you are also getting an indication of how they interpret what they see . |
| 18 | Allied Breweries ' Taylor Walker subsidiary may consider the chain is just what they are looking for to increase their estate . |
| 19 | I can recommend any family will find what they are looking for at an HCI Club . |
| 20 | But the other thing of value that we came away with — much harder to define — was the beginning of an understanding of who 's out there : who your market might be ; what they are looking for ; and how you might approach them . |
| 21 | drawing up a list of questions in advance , is advised for standard interviews , so that comparison between candidates is easier and the interviewers have a clear idea of what they are looking for ; |
| 22 | Thus they are naturally predisposed to find what they are looking for . |
| 23 | Make sure you know exactly the audience for your advertisement and , if possible , what they are looking for when they buy a product like that of your clients . |
| 24 | Only those who know what they are looking for will stumble upon it and this seclusion exerted a strong appeal on the Ashleys . |
| 25 | Note that failure does not include collection failure — the absence of the sought item or topic from the collection ; one of the functions of a good catalogue is to inform users as quickly as possible that the library does not hold what they are looking for . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's always rather difficult to know quite what they are looking for at ACCM and there are fashions in what is acceptable and what not . |
| 27 | What they are looking for , as they grope towards freer politics , are forms of government that would resurrect some of the best features of the Habsburg empire : economic stability , religious and racial tolerance , the rule of law . |
| 28 | Comprehensive and easy to use , the encyclopedia manages to map the central concerns of contemporary linguistics in such a way that outsiders will not only be able to find what they are looking for but will also be persuaded to explore further . |
| 29 | Well that depends on whether you are actually doing it during an audit or doing it for other reasons , what they are looking for is that your system is getting better and that you have done the right things . |
| 30 | Wirral housing director John Agass commented : ‘ The residents ’ groups in particular concentrated mainly on traditional housing designs , which probably reflects what they are looking for in housing . |