Example sentences of "what they are [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Royal Family will not profit from the business , though one report said that the campaign by Anglo-American firm the Eclectic American Catalogue Company appears designed to give customers the impression that what they are buying is backed by the Queen . |
| 2 | Few of the youngsters will have been to a big match ; what they are emulating is what they have seen on television in shop windows and heard on their transistors . |
| 3 | For these ‘ immigrants ’ to start demanding having a say in the way their pupils are taught and what they are taught is viewed with great disdain … |
| 4 | What they are saying is : we are not going to have any future , ’ says Charles Correa , a leading Bombay architect . |
| 5 | And it is the same attitude of world-weariness and sophistication that socializes each generation of students and new teachers into believing that their own blends of ill-formed idealism , intermittent enthusiasm and nagging doubt about the true value of what they are doing are merely the embarrassing stigmata of the beginner , to be covered up as much as possible , and grown out of as soon as possible . |
| 6 | Rather than recognise points about themselves that need changing , what they are doing is changing their partner for a new one . |
| 7 | What they are doing is boosting their 1992 earnings at the expense of their income in 1993 when the Clinton government will be in power and hitting them with hugely increased tax bills . |
| 8 | They continually threaten , nudge and jostle each other ; what they are doing is competing for rank . |
| 9 | We have to persuade the pupils that what they are doing is worthwhile — even when we doubt it ourselves . |
| 10 | Thus the pressure , both inner and outer , on teachers to have a clear , articulate rationale for what they are doing is high at the same time as the exploration of the values from which such a rationale must derive is conspicuously out of style . |
| 11 | Often this is quite unnecessary , since what they are doing is as genuine research as any . |
| 12 | Often this is quite unnecessary , since what they are doing is as genuine research as any . |
| 13 | Far from winning concessions , however , they will find what they are doing is abhorrent both to the Protestant and Catholic communities . |