Example sentences of "of they be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them 's smoking a fag . |
| 2 | What happens if one of them 's looking at it from a viewpoint and the other one 's looking at it from a viewpoint ? |
| 3 | I 'm coming up a hill near some kind of huge church or cathedral — there must 've been a service or a concert going on because people are pouring out — one of them 's singing a high trill and her boyfriend 's cross : ‘ Please , Miranda ! |
| 4 | At the moment none of them 's going to sit through to the end . |
| 5 | Yes but one of them 's going to get in . |
| 6 | One of them 's suffering from serious head injuries . |
| 7 | They 're all frightened that one of them 's gon na sell a tin of baked beans more than the other one on a Sunday . |
| 8 | I said well a lot of them are leaving today . |
| 9 | ‘ Some of them are holding up signs with names on them . ’ |
| 10 | The situation with non-US tuna vessels is far worse , as most of them are operating free of any regulations whatsoever . |
| 11 | Various surface and subsurface crusts are found in many deserts , but it is doubtful how far many of them are forming under present conditions . |
| 12 | Paradoxically , the more moderate of them are insisting on the maintenance of their block votes because the party is still not fully democratic . |
| 13 | All those are practical methods , all of them are working , and all of them are delivering better health care and will deliver faster health care . |
| 14 | What Trudy and Juanita and the rest of them are trying to say , it seems to me , is that Tod gives them the creeps . |
| 15 | Two of them are wearing spectacles , and one a hearing-aid . |
| 16 | Oh my dear some of them are comparing you with Racquel Welsh or whatever , you know you get the impression they 're looking down their nose , as much to say oh how dreadful for me to have to be seen with this old person ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | You say all of them are living . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Many of them are acting as interpreters and trying to put a semblance of order into the chaos as the world 's press converges on ministries with fresh tenants and uncertain programmes . |
| 23 | Absolutely a nil sheet yes , I have no trouble with the referees , in fact at our conference erm when they talked about referees , I put forward that erm there should be a vote of thanks for the referees , because at long last some of them are listening . |
| 24 | The three of them are presiding over us like a tribunal . |
| 25 | Sorry One of the other tables you 've got shows you a comparison between the elements which are present in crustal rock and in the sea and from that you can see which ones are a good reflection , I E whi which elements have been transferred to the sea by direct weathering , and which of them are undergoing other processes , either other sources or other sinks . |
| 26 | People have come out on to balconies and some of them are shouting slogans supporting the protests . ’ |
| 27 | Many of them are farming for little more than the subsidies . |
| 28 | All Hanne knows is that the two of them are staying somewhere in Copenhagen for an indefinite period . ’ |
| 29 | A random sample of herds might indicate that 40% of them are grazing on marginal land ; but if animals were the unit of study we might find only 20% of animals to be on marginal grazing , i.e. the 40% of herds are the smaller ones accounting for only 20% of the cattle . |
| 30 | Administering , as part of a cross-sectional survey , a series of attitude questions to a sample of respondents , we will not be able to determine which of them are expressing fairly firm attitudes from those responding out of some whim or other , or who have changed , or who simply want to please the interviewer or get rid of him . |