Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] they are " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the motives for building them are , in most cases , very much less so . |
| 2 | Old systems for protecting them are collapsing , and shrinking incomes increase the incentive to sell them . |
| 3 | Timothy demonstrates the type of singing they are looking for and Frank latches on . |
| 4 | The problems of using them are , too , quite large . |
| 5 | Ways of using them are discussed in the next three chapters . |
| 6 | And the reason they are not up to the job is that those in charge of hiring them are mostly men . |
| 7 | Readers will soon discern , on page 42 if not earlier , that in the personality of Quisling they are faced with a thundering , breathtaking , unsurpassable bore : ‘ He lacked a sense of humour to give him balance . ’ |
| 8 | " Liquidated " simply means that the damages or the method of calculating them are fixed and agreed . |
| 9 | Whatever your Dreams , the steps towards achieving them are the same . |
| 10 | The goals of the organisation are on the whole shared or accepted by its members : only the means of achieving them are in dispute . |
| 11 | They are good little theoretical exercises because they are easily described and algorithms for solving them are easily programmed , but they have a lot of symmetry , which is most uncommon in real life . |
| 12 | WOMEN need confidence , which begins with believing they are good at what they do . |
| 13 | These disadvantages can usually be coped with providing they are recognized . |
| 14 | He tricks its members into thinking they are part of a revolutionary network extending across Russia , and at the local level he generates pseudo-purposeful activities which culminate in Shatov 's murder . |
| 15 | What good is an educational system which fools youngsters into thinking they are much cleverer than they really are and lets them loose on the working world ( not that there 's much work there ) with worthless qualifications ? |
| 16 | If real wages are lower , then in the short run employment will rise to and output to i.e. output rises above its equilibrium level because people are ‘ fooled ’ into thinking they are working for real wage when they are actually working for real wage . |
| 17 | Soil tests to discover the pH are easily done , and the kits for doing them are provided with instructions by several garden product companies , and stocked at garden shops . |
| 18 | To deny them to the least of our brethren is to deny them to ourselves , for in saying they are irredeemable we are saying there is no hope for us either . |
| 19 | In other words , they work at it — which is a quite different thing from saying they are psychologically predisposed to remain relaxed under pressure . |
| 20 | They misunderstand the purpose of the miracles in thinking they are meant to bring about faith . |
| 21 | At a time when prize money — real prize money — has all but disappeared from rallying they are INCREASING the cash on offer for their end of June Burmah Rally in Lurgan Park . |
| 22 | The mass audiences and the technology for reaching them are what give the press and electronic media their character as mass media . |
| 23 | Of course fresh approaches to teaching them are necessary . |
| 24 | Americans , threatened by nothing more bellicose to their north and south than Canada and Mexico , are not accustomed to thinking they are in a battle zone . |
| 25 | Girls can be encouraged to take modules in technology without feeling they are committing themselves to two years ' or more work ; low achieving pupils can take a range of modules without suffering the indignity of following a programme that marks them out as ‘ different ’ . |
| 26 | In societies where there is a strong emphasis on certain goals , but where the means for obtaining them are unavailable to most citizens , the result is a situation of anomie ; a situation , in other words , where the rules and standards governing behaviour have lost their influence and force and are liable to be ignored , and where shared norms or rules no longer determine and direct behaviour . |
| 27 | ‘ I know it sounds bizarre to say that when someone has made an awful lot of money and had a lot of fame and adulation , but you can wreck their minds , you can wreck their self-ego and esteem by giving them the whole wrong picture of themselves by pretending they are good at one thing when they are not and boosting other things . |
| 28 | A new bill , which will become law in October , will close a legal loophole which allows unscrupulous badger diggers to avoid prosecution by claiming they are digging for foxes . |