Example sentences of "they be [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local authorities must be sure they are providing the right care for children , and with increasing pressure on budgets they must know the money is well spent . |
| 2 | Students are often uncertain whether they are taking the right kind of notes to help them survive and succeed at college . |
| 3 | I feel sorry for people that are dumped into a civilisation such as ours and they are taking the sticky end of the stick in these low-rated factories . |
| 4 | This way , they may reason , they can get to the heart of the supplier 's promotional and sales pitch , and reassure themselves that they are getting the right deal . |
| 5 | On the other hand , after seeing what he was doing with his electrified guitar , it is entirely possible that Mr Rossi 's aficionados are of the opinion that they are getting the best of both worlds . |
| 6 | All building society investors and financial advisers are strongly urged to check that they are getting the best rates available . |
| 7 | Certainly some of the productions that we are responsible for , as I have said , are controversial , and some of the public might not really want them and might dispute their validity , but I think what it is an indication of is the fact that people are short of money and have to make quite sure that they are getting the best value for what they are paying for and they ca n't afford to go to the theatre as regularly as they might have done in the past . |
| 8 | They are getting the worst deal of any group of British workers involved in a mass redundancy . |
| 9 | Although many local authorities in their strategy documents state that they aim first at rehabilitation , I remain unconvinced that they are devoting the same resources in terms of skilled social workers with small caseloads and adequate financial support to natural families , as they do to finding and supporting new families . |
| 10 | A great deal of publicity has been given to CFCs , not just because they are destroying the stratospheric ozone layer but because many are extremely powerful heat trappers as well . |
| 11 | They are targeting the 4,000 who owe more than £1,000 in rent . |
| 12 | They are bearing the one-eyed god from some unseen station of its progress to the next . |
| 13 | The owners are not seeing guilty behaviour when Rover slinks across the floor , they are seeing the submissive behaviour Rover displays in anticipation of the aggression , however mild , the owners are about to use in attempt to reprimand him . |
| 14 | Well-meaning ( as opposed to self-interested ) campaigners for wider share ownership may have the right problem , but they are advocating the wrong solution . |
| 15 | When people talk together about marriage they often assume they are discussing the same thing . |
| 16 | At such moments they are reversing the usual relationship and treating the humans as their kittens rather than as their mothers . |
| 17 | The FMLN motto is : " land is collective property , it belongs to everyone and is for everyone " ; and they are undertaking the first steps towards a genuine agrarian reform . |
| 18 | The major institutions of society are justified by the belief that they are meeting the functional prerequisites of the social system . |
| 19 | With each attack , it is as if they are meeting the distasteful animal tor the first time . |
| 20 | In a survey of 450 top UK companies last year , Touche Ross discovered that although the efficiency of financial consolidation is of key importance to senior management , few finance departments have any objective measure of their performance and know whether they are using the right tools . |
| 21 | Now back home , they are spreading the new gospel of dissent . |
| 22 | He believes politicians , church leaders , the judiciary and royalty have to question whether they are setting the right example . |
| 23 | It is not always possible to say precisely which kind of eyes these are pretending to be , but the chances are that in most cases they are mimicking the forward-facing eyes of birds of prey . |
| 24 | Compact-disc video makes its entry into the British marketplace during October , but punters generally ca n't afford any new format because they are buying the various versions of singles that are deluging the record shops . |
| 25 | Our technique is to make customers feel relaxed and make them feel they are buying the right car for their needs . ’ |
| 26 | And they are urging the various parish councils in the Alton and Bordon catchment areas to see whether they can give more financial support . |
| 27 | They are watching the young mother 's two-year-old son chasing ducks and the mother-in-law has just remarked that her son , the child 's father , was rather backward at this age . |
| 28 | The fact that nationalized industries make losses is not sufficient to prove that they are not minimizing costs or that they are producing the wrong output from society 's view-point . |
| 29 | They are entering the strange world of the Christian church at a time of high emotional stress and may encounter what sounds like a foreign language . |
| 30 | When Montaigne and Bacon stress the determining power of social custom they are developing the same idea of an order prior to and determining of consciousness , though now of course with the crucial difference that it is a non-teleological order , historical rather than divine , material rather than metaphysical . |