Example sentences of "they 're [v-ing] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they 're pandering to ghoulish voyeurism . |
| 2 | Let's just consider the political problem though you have still got a problem selling it to a lot of MP s , if they 're listening to this interview and they are concluding , maybe rightly , maybe wrongly , that actually things are n't changing very much , and they may think they 've been sold a pup with these amendments , indeed I hear that some of them have had to be bought off , well , is it true that one of them was sent off to Peru on an on an election er supervision mission in order that he might not be around when the bill came up . |
| 3 | The value they 're attaching to this holiday , is it an important element for them ? |
| 4 | Yeah it 's about time it were shaken up now that Labour Party er this government er , erm they 're agreeing to this , this has to be done and that has to be done you put notices up on buses all over Britain no smoking in the buses , now in the big restaurants they 're going to have to between now and July put notices up , no smoking in restaurants |
| 5 | For every ten seconds er no for w for twenty seconds , the first twenty seconds , they 're accelerating to twenty me metres per second per second . |
| 6 | Yes they 're going to that , they 're going to erm |
| 7 | But then why would Mao in nineteen forty five say that how that they 'd made a major concession to land to the tiller but that this is a correct one and they 're going to , that land reform has to be taken in stages and they 're going to first of all reduce rent and , I mean er |
| 8 | Well , the concern is to er , punish the children in a way , that they will realise they 're going to wrong way . |
| 9 | They 're going to liven things up around here . |
| 10 | Yes they 're going to Methodist church , then they 're gon na that |
| 11 | of tricking people into believing sort of things that are n't true , which they 're saying that er they 're talking to deceased people like people said they talked to er Elvis Presley |
| 12 | I mean biologists , when they 're talking to one another , are , by and large , talking about Darwin and that 's what I 've been trying to do . |
| 13 | So they 're working to different standards than that the water industry . |
| 14 | no particular reason for the rise its general movements and not a serious movement as far as we 're concerned includes the whole element of debtors from ourselves to our wholesale debtors which is our own manufacturing operation where they 're selling to outside customers there 's nothing particularly significant in that . |
| 15 | ‘ They 're doing to small-time corruption what the multinational corporations are doing to small-time business , ’ a cynical Sardinian friend had once remarked apropos of the latest initiative to dean up the police . |
| 16 | With what-all they 're doing to this planet down at the equator , there 's some weird stuff happening up here . |
| 17 | Well I think it is impossible for anyone to totally avoid bringing in their own values into work that they 're doing to some extent , but I think it is possible to deliberately set out to involve the values of other people in the way that you carry out the work . |
| 18 | It 's inadequate er and it it creates the impression in my mind , the very possibility that the government is actually is in favour of fraud because they 're doing to little , far too little er and these regulations are far too little er to actually stop it down . |
| 19 | Well it is three hundred and twenty thousand pound that they 're paying to this person that should not have been there in the first place , he walked on there , he built places there without planning permission and I think if the council had played their cards right , they could have got him off without paying out this three hundred twenty thousand pound . |
| 20 | They 're retiring to various parts of the country , down here onto the Sussex coast and on the whole coast into the South West — to the pleasant places if they can afford to do it , and they 're leaving the inner city and leaving behind there a lot of young families , often single parent families and older people , and of course the kind of provision you have to make , the Social Services , the needs of these communities differ quite widely . |