Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [v-ing] [conj] they [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third , as the financial market becomes increasingly global and competition grows , financial institutions are finding that they need to network their resources more and more — whether that be data , staff , or computer hardware — both company-wide , country-wide and across different time zones . |
| 2 | I quote — ‘ Nowadays though , young musicians come into places where older musicians are playing and they play a body of tunes which the older player would not know . |
| 3 | However , now that it is necessary to identify the functions the judges are performing when they sit as visitors in cases which are concerned with the question whether people are fit and proper persons to become or remain barristers , we must for the first time examine their function in that context alone . |
| 4 | Apparently the individual costs of the lines are staggering and they reckon that the cost of the calls does not outweigh it but what I think is certainly outweighed is the cost of all our time trying to get through on these lines |
| 5 | Friends ' lives were changing as they split up with old partners , found new ones , bought flats , changed jobs . |
| 6 | Non-users are saying that they need to seek information but the catalogue does not contribute to fulfilling that need . |
| 7 | I need interpreters in my surgery who can speak Punjabi , Urdu and Gujarati , otherwise I can not understand fully what my constituents are saying when they have complicated immigration problems . |
| 8 | The report concluded , ‘ we should be very foolish to argue that the economic system would not work if prices and incomes were behaving as they have behaved during some of the most prosperous epochs ; that is to say , rising slowly ’ . |
| 9 | THE auction of LFA sheep quota by Lawrie & Symington at Lanark last week has confirmed most expectations of market prices but Ministry of Agriculture specialists have given warning that farmers are gambling if they trade before the transfer rules are confirmed some time next month . |
| 10 | INVESTORS are exploring whether they have grounds for legal action against MTM , the troubled chemicals group whose value has collapsed from £256 million in February to £22 million . |
| 11 | It is often this particular language to which academics are referring when they make general claims about the nature of English or of literacy . |
| 12 | This is the really important information cats are receiving when they approach a meal . |
| 13 | We 've been feeling for some time that our children are feeling that they 've been left alone , because er when they come to the temple they are too young to understand anything which is being explained from the stage , because er the speakers , or the preachers , have to cater for all the age groups and normally it 's for the , those who understand , already understand about Sikhism . |
| 14 | Moreover , the activity rate just before retirement , 55–59 , has fractionally increased over this time period , so that nearly as many women as men are working as they approach the age of retirement . |
| 15 | But what we need to do as well , is to listen wha to what the churches are saying as they address these issues . |