Example sentences of "they be [verb] so [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are doing so at differing speeds , faced by differing problems and with differing chances of success . |
| 2 | Thus , even though the 12 member states are following the same rules , they are doing so at a different pace , which further complicates an already complex situation . ’ |
| 3 | They are looking after their commercial interests , but unfortunately they are doing so at the expense of the tenants and customers , the very people who are supposed to benefit from the legislation . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , they are doing so alongside all the inherited pseudo-science and woolly thinking , the pretentious massing of obscure and unreliable ( and unreliably dated ) data which have traditionally marked Velokovskianism off from more orthodox science . |
| 5 | Well just another appalling slaughter of very innocent people , and it really is quite incredible that the people who carried out these terrible murders said they were doing so as retaliation for similar slaughter of people in the Shankhill Road last week . |
| 6 | In other words , when the New Ireland Forum was being assured by Bishop Daly of the intention of the Roman catholic church in Ireland to support full civil and religious rights for Northern Ireland protestants , the bishops were effectively reserving to themselves , as a body of luminaries with a direct access to the inner structures of social reality , the right to declare what actually constituted a civil and religious liberty or right and they were doing so on the grounds of what they considered good for society . |
| 7 | They were doing so on largely political religious grounds . |
| 8 | But the US ( with the UK in tow ) shaped up for war with Iraq and steamed off to the Gulf to protect their own interests , saying that they were doing so on behalf of the whole world . |
| 9 | The heads of the ministries created in 1869 were not directly responsible for ‘ advising and assisting ’ ( hohitsu ) the emperor , though they were to become so in 1889 . |
| 10 | The heads of the ministries created in 1869 were not directly responsible for ‘ advising and assisting ’ ( hohitsu ) the emperor , though they were to become so in 1889 . |