Example sentences of "they [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Japanese producers of cars and many other products are in fact already behaving as if Fortress Europe is a reality — that is to say they are setting up full-scale manufacturing plants in Europe . |
| 2 | By the stage we define broadly as intermediate , learners are some way towards developing control of the language they are learning : their store of language has grown to a point where they can adapt , adjust and add to it with some facility ; they can transfer language use from one context to another ; they are building up more complex networks of language and the work we do in the classroom at this level is similarly more complex and less controlled . |
| 3 | they are trying out different ‘ personalities ’ as they prepare for adulthood ; |
| 4 | A Special Branch Officer said : ‘ It shows they are driving around nationalist areas , consulting electoral register records and basically doing their homework . ’ |
| 5 | They are carrying out directed interviews there , and will collect time and money budgets . |
| 6 | Although it is only necessary to show an element of bounty to come within these provisions now , this case is important and taxpayers should bear it in mind when they are carrying out any reorganisation of share capital . |
| 7 | They will never do this if they are running around loose . |
| 8 | They are screening out risky clients or moving out of audit into less litigious areas of service . |
| 9 | The eyes of the world may be on Microsoft Corp Windows NT , but over at the IBM booth they are pulling out all the stops to show that OS/2 is far from dead . |
| 10 | This year , with an eye to future continental competition , they 're bringing in new standards on value for money . |
| 11 | And yet they 're bringing in these other things that er enormous cost which nobody wants and you 've still got ta pay , and if you have n't got one , if you have n't got the necessary er coin then that , that could lead to very anti social behaviour . . |
| 12 | They 're just di cos they 're digging up all the grass , that 's why they ai n't got any grass . |
| 13 | Asked Gary I would think they 're taking on extra staff |
| 14 | And you know , they 're ticking off all these things jokingly and of course back comes a tape from mother , . |
| 15 | ‘ And they 're living off fresh-cooked lamb and white bread and sweet Commanderie ? ’ |
| 16 | … It 's this bureaucratic idea they 're trying out that 's getting the older staff browned off . ’ |
| 17 | They 're shipping out cast iron baths , washbasins and tiles to the Land of the Rising Sun . |
| 18 | But most of the work is going on actually in the auditorium where they 're stripping out all the wood er and putting in great big holes where they can put the fire exits in . |
| 19 | ‘ If they 're running about all day in the fresh air , that 'll make them hungry , I should think ! ’ |
| 20 | Police say they 're following up possible sightings of Dennis Garvey ’ s car from all over the country . |
| 21 | cos he says they 're going round all the schools |
| 22 | Where you going to go to get for you , , I do n't know why they 're cutting down all of erm , his , they 've got some nice ones on there . |
| 23 | The fact of the matter , at the same time , erm , as you yourself have said , Chairman , we are in a situation where we have four communication rooms coming down to two next year hopefully , I personally think it should come down to one , but lets recognise that they 're costing the police authority one point six million pounds , they 're tying up forty-one uniformed police officers , and something like fifty er , civilian officers on those exercises . |
| 24 | They 're tying down half the British Army , for God 's sake . |
| 25 | ‘ They 're dancing up front . |
| 26 | The three riders came on , but giving the feeling that they were holding back some , not anxious to ride right up until they made sure everything was keno . |
| 27 | I will , I will mention , I did n't know they were sending out such a letter , otherwise I would have er , told them in advance . |
| 28 | Outside , on the sun-soaked Common , they were piling up French loaves and bottles of Beaujolais . |
| 29 | ‘ They were wiping out all the Jews they could find . |
| 30 | A helpful northerly breeze was filling the sails , so that they were building up gentle speed across the waters of the bay . |