Example sentences of "what they [be] doing be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I respect the fact that The Jam can touch people and what they 're doing is an attempt to be ‘ real ’ — no myth or far-fetched fantasy — and it 's for real people , not people who follow trends . |
| 2 | Some sportsmen connect you viscerally with them when they perform , often those who , like Christie , are not infallible , are not always perfectly behaved , but who give you both a run for your money and a sense that what they 're doing is dramatic and important . |
| 3 | or whether some kind of statement about who 's there and what they 're doing is enough . |
| 4 | So the result will be , that the young children will cry an awful lot over about very small things , because what they 're doing is they 're amplifying the signal to a maximum level . |
| 5 | What they 're doing is actually going a lot further , and supply us all the their ac accounts and details , and they 've actually sort of called it a grant for partial costs of materials , right , so we 're actually |
| 6 | I would imagine what they 're doing is raising the roof and not putting in the second storey . |
| 7 | Right , okay , erm let's now move on to er these other diagnostics , right , like test for structural change these diagnostic test statistics that are calculated for right , because essentially what they 're doing is that they 're testing the assumptions on which ordinary leased squares is based . |
| 8 | Yeah I mean , they 're upgrading all of the machines at work but what they 're doing is instead of throwing them out , those who do n't use P Cs that often are being given the slower machines and those that as part of their job function , they need something much faster have been given the the newer machines . |
| 9 | Turn right into er what is a very busy er road in any event at that time but that the dangers is that many drivers are becoming impatient with waiting their turn in the queue and what they 're doing is driving down on the wrong side of the road in order to utilise a little back road that 's a service road which runs alongside road and leads into Nightingale avenue . |
| 10 | She says that it would be wrong of the council to judge who is a good or bad busker , what they 're doing is setting out some rules so everyone knows where they stand . |
| 11 | What they 're doing is there 's some fish down there somewhere . |
| 12 | what they 're doing is like |
| 13 | Well what they 're doing is that . |
| 14 | Its the , its for the Oxford English Dictionary , its erm , what they 're doing is they 're making up a Dictionary for just using everyday collocation and they |
| 15 | What they 're doing is they 're sending it so that somebody will place orders . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Rather than recognise points about themselves that need changing , what they are doing is changing their partner for a new one . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They continually threaten , nudge and jostle each other ; what they are doing is competing for rank . |
| 20 | We have to persuade the pupils that what they are doing is worthwhile — even when we doubt it ourselves . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Often this is quite unnecessary , since what they are doing is as genuine research as any . |
| 23 | Often this is quite unnecessary , since what they are doing is as genuine research as any . |
| 24 | Far from winning concessions , however , they will find what they are doing is abhorrent both to the Protestant and Catholic communities . |
| 25 | In other words , the managers at the LBO could have achieved similar results without a buy-out ; what they were doing was seizing the gain for themselves . |
| 26 | They each believed that what they were doing was vital for the betterment of the world as each saw it and neither would give way to the other , or defer in any way to the other 's claimed priority in attention , preference or responsibility . |
| 27 | No-one should ever think that what they were doing was too small . |
| 28 | But Suzy said there were all kinds of awards young people could get , particularly if what they were doing was connected with conservation — I was really surprised . |
| 29 | The defendants claimed that what they were doing was in furtherance of their dispute with the provincial newspapers . |
| 30 | Because , what they were doing was their best . |