Example sentences of "they [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All Hanne knows is that the two of them are staying somewhere in Copenhagen for an indefinite period . ’ |
| 2 | The three of them are presiding over us like a tribunal . |
| 3 | ‘ while a lot of the older staff , the older side of the staff , I think a lot of them are getting browned off with it . |
| 4 | Some of them are getting very elaborate , and you 're seeing the stuff in the press for things like ten percent gross yields , has anybody seen those ? |
| 5 | Firstly , I am tired of hearing from experts that so many of the world 's problems are insoluble : poverty , malnutrition , pollution , road accidents , bureaucracy , illiteracy , inflation … there are literally hundreds of such problems , and most of them are getting worse . |
| 6 | In fact over two million people in the UK have the disease , but only a quarter of them are getting any treatment . |
| 7 | cos some of them are getting |
| 8 | cos some of them are getting |
| 9 | A group of them are taking a truck of supplies out to Romania at Easter . |
| 10 | Now more and more of them are taking their place on that very same stage . |
| 11 | None of them are taking their husbands see but they 're taking friends . |
| 12 | sort of , but neither of them are taking it on are they next year ? |
| 13 | I said well a lot of them are leaving today . |
| 14 | Two of them are wearing spectacles , and one a hearing-aid . |
| 15 | Just four of the top names M & S , Sainsbury 's , Safeway and Tesco take half of its output and sales to them are rising by 10pc a year . |
| 16 | People have come out on to balconies and some of them are shouting slogans supporting the protests . ’ |
| 17 | He wonders how many of his fellow-countrymen visit Britain with this kind of attitude , undoing all the good work the rest of them are struggling to do . |
| 18 | Paradoxically , the more moderate of them are insisting on the maintenance of their block votes because the party is still not fully democratic . |
| 19 | Quite rightly , they place much emphasis on the importance of introducing genuine market relations in Yugoslavia ; and increasing numbers of them are including in this the right to establish competing private enterprises and self-managed enterprises in which the workers own shares . |
| 20 | A great majority of them are looking for the theatre of books , and it is not there . |
| 21 | There are currently 79,000 children and young people being cared for by the local authorities in the U.K. and half of them are looking for foster homes . |
| 22 | Little wonder , really , that right now the two of them are looking for the time of their life with someone of their own age . |
| 23 | All three of them are looking for work in large towns . |
| 24 | Well see Carole and them are bringing that back tonight at her erm his son is gon na come back and then |
| 25 | One of the issues that arises concerning the inhabitants of squatter settlements is integration into city life , since many of them are migrants and all of them are living in an area which is peripheral , in terms of city services and location . |
| 26 | You say all of them are living . |
| 27 | A very large increase , and of course some of them are living longer — instead of three or four per cent over what we call retirement age there will be perhaps six , as now in China , there may be eight , into the next century ten . |
| 28 | Assistant Chief Environmental Health Officer , John Copley , says people in Oxford have much less of a chance of receiving help than those in other cities , even though some of them are living in appalling conditions . |
| 29 | Most of them are riding high on a feeling that all politicians and most of the media now put the environment at or near the top of the political agenda . |
| 30 | ‘ Some of them are holding up signs with names on them . ’ |