Example sentences of "they are [v-ing] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both speakers and writers find this useful when they are referring to two things , one animate , one inanimate . |
| 2 | They are hiding in one of every three of the delicious chocolate eggs . |
| 3 | They are hiding in one of every three of the delicious chocolate eggs . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Often , he says , ecosystems are at their most diverse when they are shifting from one state to another , as the dominant types are temporarily swept aside , and many other , perhaps more specialist species , take over the vacant niches . |
| 7 | So you run the risk that they are thinking about one thing while you are pursuing another ; |
| 8 | They are looking at four possible sites . |
| 9 | Beginners often make the mistake of looking down when they are moving from one position to another , thus breaking the cardinal first rule of combat , which is never to take your eyes off your opponent . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | New car registrations — only half a million in 1958 — jumped in 1963 to more than a million ( Today , they are running at two million . ) |
| 12 | Yeah , yeah bu yeah , but they are rehearsing for two and a half hours . |
| 13 | They are playing for one of the biggest clubs in the game and that should be a source of pride , but that seemed to be painfully absent at Bradford last week . |
| 14 | ‘ They are asking for eight per cent , whereas the housing associations can afford to pay only three-and-a-half per cent . ’ |
| 15 | They are shutting off 35 roads in Handsworth , Birmingham , to create 28 ‘ public safety zones ’ for the event which is expected to attract 500,000 visitors . |