Example sentences of "they [am/are] [v-ing] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most analysts said IBM Corp is not done with its restructuring , and there will be more to come — ‘ I think basically the mainframe business and the problems they are facing are very fundamental and will likely worsen in 1993 , ’ Smith said — ‘ the mainframe business is the main source of cash flow and it will be very difficult to offset that by improvements elsewhere . ’ |
| 2 | Assuming it to be out there somewhere they have joined forces with the Utopians and Marxists and missed the fact that the spiritual galaxy for which they are searching is like the Milky Way . |
| 3 | ‘ We do need to talk to the tutors and point out that the patterns of study that they are providing are not meeting the demands of the market , ’ Mr Armitage stresses . |
| 4 | District councillors are under no illusion that the extra cash they are providing is enough to solve the problem entirely . |
| 5 | There are more occupational therapists , and the time that they are taking is also being reduced . |
| 6 | The message they are getting is that Italy is the real target . |
| 7 | The advantages that they are getting are admirable and important but reforms that only give these advantages to a select minority can not be called fair . |
| 8 | The concept they are promoting is that of ‘ electronic ink ’ — a magic ingredient that will enable scribbles written on one pen computer to be used by other systems , even those without pen-aware technology . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ They are destroying are livelihood . |
| 10 | Some foxes , mongooses and weasels are capable of this type of defence and doubtless give the hungry predators the sensation that perhaps , after all , the food object they are pursuing is not so tasty . |
| 11 | In other words , although social scientists certainly want to make sure that the information that they are gathering is accurate , this is only a necessary — not a sufficient — goal . |
| 12 | Few of the youngsters will have been to a big match ; what they are emulating is what they have seen on television in shop windows and heard on their transistors . |
| 13 | In other words their comprehension is at fault , or put another way the text they are using is too difficult for them . |
| 14 | Loss of earnings and career prospects can be a serious matter for someone who knows that she is going to have to support herself for many years after her parents have gone ; and unless the home in which they are living is owned by them , and left to her in their will , she is also going to have to provide accommodation for herself when they die . |
| 15 | But what is more important than anything else is that they should not be treated as packages and removed from one place to another and back again because the grown-ups are involved in a dispute and have overlooked that children have rights , and that children 's rights are to remain somewhere until after calm and sensible consideration and a decision by a court that the particular place in which they are living is changed by the decision of the court to them living somewhere else . |
| 16 | Drinkers have a right to know whether the beer they are drinking is a genuine barley malt product or whether it is stuffed full of such tasty ingredients as corn syrup , propylene glycol alginate , amyloglucosidase , papain enzymes and potassium metabisulphite . |
| 17 | The Royal Family will not profit from the business , though one report said that the campaign by Anglo-American firm the Eclectic American Catalogue Company appears designed to give customers the impression that what they are buying is backed by the Queen . |
| 18 | In the way that military tactics fail by being repeated without regard to changed environment and situation , we expect people to live up to their reputation when the circumstances in which they are performing are very different . |
| 19 | They need to know that the onerous tasks they are performing are done correctly and are appreciated by line managers . |
| 20 | What they are saying is : we are not going to have any future , ’ says Charles Correa , a leading Bombay architect . |
| 21 | And I can believe there is a link between periods and self-esteem , because if people are saying periods are embarrassing or dirty or vile , then in a way they are saying being a woman is embarrassing or dirty or wile , and that 's bound to affect you . |
| 22 | Police are now anxious to trace the buyers who might not yet realise the cars they are driving are stolen . |
| 23 | To this the applicant and his advisers respond that however understandable the authorities ' current attitude may be the course which they are adopting is unfair , for two cumulative reasons . |
| 24 | All they are doing is making a lot more money out of a lot more misery . ’ |
| 25 | Rather than recognise points about themselves that need changing , what they are doing is changing their partner for a new one . |
| 26 | All they are doing is trying to hide their own ignorance about Jesus and the Bible by being rude to you ! |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They continually threaten , nudge and jostle each other ; what they are doing is competing for rank . |
| 29 | We have to persuade the pupils that what they are doing is worthwhile — even when we doubt it ourselves . |
| 30 | 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 . |