Example sentences of "[noun sg] they be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only those people realised the harm they are doing to their health by not allowing themselves to show what they really feel — sometimes not even admitting those feelings to themselves — perhaps they would unbend a little . |
| 2 | How will the hard men of the IRA react , when they hear at first hand what harm they are doing to everything they say they stand for ? |
| 3 | er , we have in the East end of the village , including the pub , the farm , and various other properties , a certain type of properties that elevation , a certain sympathetic er amenity , and these buildings , I I heard the word mentioned earlier , I live in the country , I could live in the town , it does n't matter where I live , but these are not the sort of properties , in my opinion , that should be put on this particular site , er and they 're they 're totally , all our own elevations and plans of height , and they are totally and utterly out of proportion and out of scale with the present day entrance to the village , and whilst we 're not talking totally and utterly about looks , if you come down into the village they are going to be totally over powering , particularly in the , in the actual , in this situation of no hedges and that kind of thing , |
| 4 | Er it sort of goes in four ways I mean the fathers talk more directly than the mothers whether or not it 's a boy or a girl they 're talking to . |
| 5 | Well I do n't se I do n't think that it has been badly designed for the old people , I think the object of building the town as it has been built is to integrate the erm the old people with the young , perhaps the young people resent that but I think we have got to have a mixed community in as much as we have got to be aware that old people need attention in as much as they need companionship and if they are not integrated with the community they are going to be I really se , just left out on their own which in lots of cases there are very , very many lonely people , old people but if they are put within the community I think the community will look after them , in as much as giving them companionship whether the people , some people resent it or not , I do n't know , but I do think that they should not be segregated . |
| 6 | Many humans spend a lot of time travelling from place to place , which is odd because there are usually too many humans at the place they 're going to anyway . |
| 7 | ‘ At my former company [ French Gold Abbott ] we were inexperienced and no one viewed FGA as the last place they were going to work . |
| 8 | It 's quite dangerous , as well , because you want to be objective and you do get sucked into the picture they 're presenting to you . |
| 9 | Daddy they 're going to the Peugeot . |
| 10 | Some people ( who usually turn out to do well in phonetic training ) find that in speaking to someone with a different accent their pronunciation gets progressively more like that of the person they are speaking to , like a chameleon adapting its colour to its environment . |
| 11 | Moreton councillor Ken Hemsley said : ‘ I am just concerned that people answering 999 calls may not understand a local dialect and they may be talking about a place which the person they are speaking to will never have heard of . |
| 12 | Again this is a common and ‘ normal ’ reaction , but many people feel so ashamed of thoughts like these that they hardly dare express them unless they feel safe enough to do so and trust the person they are talking to sufficiently for such a revelation to seem acceptable . |
| 13 | Lots of people turn off as soon as the person they 're talking to reveals an interest in or opinion on something they dislike or disagree with . |
| 14 | Every now and again people would step neatly aside while the person they were talking to was sick on the floor . |
| 15 | Any systematic variation must have been the result of the reaction of passers-by to the apparent social class of the person they were talking to , since all other variables were held constant . |
| 16 | Turn your back they 're talking to you say they 've been nasty and then they come back and talk to you . |
| 17 | I mean to my mind if they 're opening on a Sunday they should bring their prices down because they 're opening that extra day they 're going to be taking extra revenue . |
| 18 | Praise you up when you go around kicking things , walking about with your eyes shut you 've got to join the Fire Service and you walk , you canna walk about with your eyes shut , you ca n't , people that have been injured in the head they 're going to be screaming about it are n't they your eyes are wonderful things Matt , they give you all round vision , you can see from , from the side of your eye if you look it 's like everything else if you do n't use it properly , you do n't get the benefit from it |
| 19 | Cos someone said last night they were going to Tramps but whether that was just like , they might be going to Tramps or what . |
| 20 | If police officers have more protection they are going to be more helpful to the public who will , in turn , be more confident . ’ |
| 21 | erm strike out , interim payment , order fourteen er itself , there 's always still available to them , erm that the other side of the coin is if they get their money and of course they 're going to be threatening bankruptcy for some four thousand odd Names , I mean that 's , that 's equally devastating to individuals , erm my Lord , one would be into a type of argument on balance of convenience if we were at this stage , one would be considering the bankruptcy of the names , whether they have the funds to pay , even if judgment is given against them because vast majority do n't and what would be the point of giving judgment , this order fourteen cases saying one should n't do it in those circumstances , what if the names are right , will they get the money back , will they get a cross undertaking damages and pre er , er and to what extent do now have the funds , to what extent will it actually effect their business in the light of of |
| 22 | Most recently , the controversy surrounding the use of Chlorofluorocarbons ( CFC 's ) and the damage they are doing to the Ozone layer has received a great deal of publicity . |
| 23 | None of Britain 's 140 nuclear power stations will get a licence to continue operations until they provide far more detailed information on what damage they are doing to the environment and what steps they are taking to prevent it , according to an announcement from HM Inspectorate of Pollution . |
| 24 | Erm but Edingley did ask for our support they were writing to and they were supposed to send the top copy of the letter to our clerk . |
| 25 | In his attack Antrim DUP councillor Jim Brown said : ‘ If this is the kind of filth they are feeding to our children then the quicker they close the better . ’ |
| 26 | They 're gon na wonder what the hell they 're listening to , ha ! |
| 27 | And and and quite honestly the parts of the organization they were going to I do n't perceive as being any more secure . |
| 28 | Now if our estimates , say for the marginal to consume or the incoming elasticity of demand , right if our estimates are based on a regression in which the real or the underlying marginal propensity to consume or income elasticity demand is varying from plus four to minus two , you know , is our point test generate from , from regression analysis they are going to be completely meaningless . |
| 29 | We are not going to establish British companies across Europe , let alone across the world , if our monopolies legislation disallows mergers of major companies within one industry — the only way they are going to be strong enough to do it . |
| 30 | the impact of current pressures within the broadcasting environment on those values , and the way they are leading to a parting of the ways and , most particularly , |