Example sentences of "they [be] [v-ing] with [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have they been competing with one another all their lives ? |
| 2 | I am an advocate of concentrating money market business rather than spreading it among a large number of banks ; so long as banks know that they are in competition it does not matter if they are competing with two or three others , or 50 : if they do not offer the best rate they will not get the business . |
| 3 | The larger agencies supplying secretarial and office staff in the metropolitan areas , primarily because they are competing with one another for scarce labour , are increasingly offering the sort of fringe benefits associated with employment . |
| 4 | And for an English/French speaker , adoption of bird for a short time precluded oiseau Once such children realize they are dealing with two languages , however , they begin to use labels from both languages for the same category , both leche and milk They start to do this once they themselves can produce about 150–200 words ( Taeschner , 1983 ) . |
| 5 | The position of Rathbone and the NUSEC was potentially more radical than pre-War feminists because they were grappling with two new issues , first , the need to improve women 's economic position in the family ( earlier feminists had suggested celibacy as the only alternative to ‘ marriage as a trade ’ ) , and second , the necessity to get away from defining equality for women on men 's terms . |