Example sentences of "they be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , I am tired of hearing from experts that so many of the world 's problems are insoluble : poverty , malnutrition , pollution , road accidents , bureaucracy , illiteracy , inflation … there are literally hundreds of such problems , and most of them are getting worse . |
| 2 | In fact over two million people in the UK have the disease , but only a quarter of them are getting any treatment . |
| 3 | Well see Carole and them are bringing that back tonight at her erm his son is gon na come back and then |
| 4 | Most of them are riding high on a feeling that all politicians and most of the media now put the environment at or near the top of the political agenda . |
| 5 | The situation with non-US tuna vessels is far worse , as most of them are operating free of any regulations whatsoever . |
| 6 | Sorry One of the other tables you 've got shows you a comparison between the elements which are present in crustal rock and in the sea and from that you can see which ones are a good reflection , I E whi which elements have been transferred to the sea by direct weathering , and which of them are undergoing other processes , either other sources or other sinks . |
| 7 | All those are practical methods , all of them are working , and all of them are delivering better health care and will deliver faster health care . |
| 8 | Some of them are missing six years and their families do not know if they are alive . ’ |
| 9 | Much to mummy and daddy 's despair , none of them are showing any inclination to . |
| 10 | Actually , not one of its members is a day over 50 ( although all of them are coming close ) but you might reasonably have expected age to leave Daltrey , Townshend , and Entwistle looking worse than well-travelled . |
| 11 | A lot of them are having nervous breakdowns or sort of ruining their family life because |
| 12 | Many of them are having more babies . |
| 13 | A lot of them are studying other things besides Italian and so they take time off to prepare for exams . |
| 14 | A group of residents in an old peoples ' home may between them be confronting many occasions of loss and death ; the handling of these matters requires sensitivity too . |
| 15 | Would the other , these other enquiries you made , would the major part of them be asking other police officers or is there any other way of getting information ? |
| 16 | Had they been discussing any other evening he would not have been nearly so competent but the murder pinpointed the day . |
| 17 | What they might have heard however , had they been passing ten minutes later , even above the noise of the traffic and the raging of the wind , was a roar of someone in pain , a great and agonizing cry . |
| 18 | Have they been getting any ? |
| 19 | Indeed , had they been defending British farmers , particularly , those producing lamb , they would have achieved only a load of jelly — and red at that . |
| 20 | What have they been doing all this time ? ’ |
| 21 | or not long after so why have they been doing that if there 's nothing much to do ? |
| 22 | Some cases might be summed up as ‘ What have they been doing wrong and how can they be put right ? ’ |
| 23 | It is thus both a ‘ What have they been doing wrong and how can it be put right ? ’ and a ‘ Which way should they go now ? ’ case . |
| 24 | Mr may I ask you also had been told by somebody that they been planning armed robberies together . |
| 25 | Now they are forming new floodplains about –8 m below their old floodplains . |
| 26 | And they are demanding massive insurance cover from Eastern Suburbs when Martin Offiah plays for them next summer . |
| 27 | By adopting policies against sexual harassment they are opposing hitherto-accepted codes of normal masculinity and their effects in exercising power and control over women . |
| 28 | Birds can not be conserved by protection in Britain if they are facing greater problems elsewhere . |
| 29 | Eighty per cent of Birmingham 's 3,000 minicab drivers are Asian and they are facing shocking levels of violence . |
| 30 | They are facing formidable opposition in the shape of last year 's winner , Rosa Mota , who sees London as a warm-up for the Olympics , where she 'll be defending her title and looking to put the disappointment of the World Championships in Tokyo last year behind her . |