Example sentences of "they be using [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Coleman asked where the money to produce and distribute the leaflet was coming from , adding : ‘ They are using poll taxpayers money for their own ends . ’ |
| 2 | They are using sonar , but it is a cruder kind of sonar than is used by the smaller bats with which we , in temperate regions , are familiar . |
| 3 | Yet they are using blackmail on miners to vote to close pits earlier than they year that had been decided on so that they can close the pit down and they have cut the redundancy payments for miners . |
| 4 | Men often oppose family planning , so many women must either hide the fact they are using birth control or meet with considerable opposition . |
| 5 | At the same same they are using propaganda and terror to boost their position in the countryside . |
| 6 | There will be no point telling speakers they are using prevaricate wrongly , because usage is the main criterion for meaning . |
| 7 | You know , using artificial insemination techniques , they 're using erm , some er , designer er , seeds for their er , for their crops , they 're using scientifically engineered agro-chemicals , they 're using state of the art machinery , and they 're , they 're using those , that technology to increase output because the more they produce , the more support , or the higher their , their income will be . |
| 8 | They 're using metal strips for taxiing . |
| 9 | But now they 're not using plums any more , they 're using marrow . |
| 10 | What happens when you open up the market twenty years down the line , you realize that these industries are dinosaurs , they 're using technology that 's thirty years out of date . |
| 11 | No longer were people in small communities sharing the necessities of life , but they were using money for everything . |
| 12 | The priestesses ' complete abandonment to the dance , as depicted in some of the ring images , shows that they were using dance , just as the dervishes were to use it much later , to induce a state of religious ecstasy . |
| 13 | Private/domestic employers will not usually need to use application forms , although they should use letters of application to make a preliminary comparison and selection of candidates , rather as though they were using application forms . |
| 14 | Working in such a school in the mid-1950s , part of my task as a very inexperienced junior teacher was to explain almost daily to parents that Peter or John or Mary would learn their tables , and learn to compute , despite the fact that they were using apparatus rather than sum books and were active rather than passive . |