Example sentences of "they be [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But why had they been sitting on a table ? |
| 2 | They been coming round every day just to see you 're okey dokey |
| 3 | Have they been playing as a strike pair for the reserves ? ? |
| 4 | Furthermore , if the members of the harmonie rustique were moving around the stage as part of the spectacle , it seems much less likely that they would have been changing instruments picking up a flute for one number , a bassoon for another than they might have done had they been playing from a pit . |
| 5 | Thus , when many people talk ( or think ) about CAD , they are referring to the secondary design activity wherein the seed of the idea is fully investigated and developed . |
| 6 | Fiona : They are facing in the wrong direction . |
| 7 | Now they are searching for the fourth sister Pamela , who walked out at the age of 15 after a row with her father . |
| 8 | Whilst they are searching for the relevant information , their inventories of unsold goods will start to build up . |
| 9 | Only among the over-75s are men more likely to be caring than women ( 10 per cent compared with 6 per cent ) , mainly because of the care they are providing for a disabled spouse ( Evandron , 1990 , pp. 6–7 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Old people are their life , it 's not just a business venture for them , they genuinely care and they are speaking from the heart , ’ he said . |
| 11 | There is no shame in their situation and they are participating in the disintegration of the moral force of respectability which would once have shamed them within their own class and community . |
| 12 | And they may be torn three ways , between the practical direction they are getting in the school , the advice they are being given in college and by their teaching practice tutor , and their own developing sense of the kind of teacher they would or would not like to become . |
| 13 | ‘ There are far too many media people and they are getting in the way of everyone else . |
| 14 | Now they are aiming for a new lease of life and further development . |
| 15 | Several hotel and leisure groups are already beginning to diversify into this field : they are aiming at the top and more lucrative end of the market , charging fees well above the DSS limits . |
| 16 | In general , children and adults should not be given too much milk to drink if they are recovering from a stomach upset . |
| 17 | But , he added ‘ While these people have a right to live as they want , they are infringing on the rights of other people . |
| 18 | We can now add that controlling ensures that the travellers know how well they are progressing along the route , how correct their map is , and what deviations , if any , they need to make to stay on course . |
| 19 | Yamaha Electronics have recently released details of the new 1992 range of hi-fi separates and systems that they are bringing into the UK from the parent company . |
| 20 | Commuters read paperbacks as they sit in trains , but find that they may need to rest from this activity more frequently than when they are reading in a comfortable and well-lit place at home . |
| 21 | Today , millions of Japanese may be unaware that they are dining on the namesake of their late military governor , ‘ Big Mac ’ . |
| 22 | and they are helping with the children in the house , I mean , they ca n't do much more ! |
| 23 | Thus , the discount houses may be making losses on the loans they are repaying to the commercial banks . |
| 24 | Many teachers try to obscure the fact that they are teaching in a multiracial school . |
| 25 | I accept that , but none of the other districts are g are are making the point that 's Selby 's making , that the level of unemployment that they are encountering across the economy , not necessarily just in this sector of the economy , justifies the doubling of the of the of the allocation put forward . |
| 26 | They are stepping over the invisible , moralistic Maginot Line of the old culture of opposition . |
| 27 | avoid putting neighbouring groups into a situation where they are competing on a win-lose basis for resources or status , for example . |
| 28 | Egg producers must recognise that they are competing in the sophisticated food industry of the late 1980s and that they have a responsibility to the consumer . |
| 29 | Furthermore , this Convention also requires that acceptance of the right or obligation by the third party organisation be in accordance with its constitutive rules , which again assumes that they are binding on the organisation , although contained in a treaty to which it is not a party . |
| 30 | They are operating at the bottom end of the market with no capital and no security . |