Example sentences of "they be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 've they been doing to you ? |
| 2 | When people write nice things about my food it always sounds like they are referring to someone else … ’ . |
| 3 | The naturalists do not admit that they are referring to rules of genre ; their writings must be true , not just likely . |
| 4 | Both speakers and writers find this useful when they are referring to two things , one animate , one inanimate . |
| 5 | Clearly without a standardized definition research findings can be misleading and invariably confusing because they are referring to very different phenomena . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They are referring to rabies , which in Portuguese is called raiva — literally rage , fury , madness . |
| 8 | This R A F Wittering job that they are referring to S S W F C |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Rover and other car manufacturers are now so successful that they are exporting to Japan and elsewhere . |
| 12 | Thus , the discount houses may be making losses on the loans they are repaying to the commercial banks . |
| 13 | But erm you know they do sort of keep a close eye on what they 're working unless of course they they are hoping to erm for their health to improve and to be able to return to full time teaching ultimately . |
| 14 | I still possess a tape-recording of a news report I made for Irish radio in which — to a background of Palestinian rifle fire — I hear my own voice informing listeners in the furthest villages of County Mayo that they are listening to ‘ the last shots of the Lebanese civil war ’ . |
| 15 | Although children become familiar with the terms used in the story and call out when they are listening to it , the ideas involved may not necessarily have been understood . |
| 16 | Effectively , they are competing to be last . |
| 17 | To some it will be an urban environment that they are looking to and within that concept will be the requirement for clean streets , no noise and fumes from traffic , no aircraft noise , access to local parks or open spaces , etc . |
| 18 | Although object technology is ‘ a major technical change to the system , ’ Bourne says that SunSoft 's approach is very different from other efforts such as the IBM-Apple Computer Inc Taligent venture or Microsoft Corp 's Cairo because they are looking to reusability and faster time to market for applications as an end result . |
| 19 | The others will chip in if they agree , but they will they are , they are wanting to set a missile to move , they 're wanting to send a bullet , they are wanting to s to evoke emotion or anger or rage or frustration or political bias or to change attitudes now for example the interesting thing about the Princess Diana erm the headline on one of those tabloids which talks about exile is I suspect that they want to evoke the constitutional crisis which there was at the time of |
| 20 | In other words , they are reacting to the ‘ coalness ’ or ‘ oilness ’ of the chemical , rather than the chemical itself This theory stretches credibility considerably , because synthetic compounds go through so many chemical reactions , distillations and purification procedures that they bear little relationship to their raw materials , let alone to each other . |
| 21 | Some parents need help in identifying how they are reacting to their child and so professional observation of their interaction may be required . |
| 22 | ROS and GUIL squint upwards and find that they are bowing to nothing . |
| 23 | Erm however he 's saying that you know where , where there is erm you know , pe peasant erm associations basically that they are trying to , you know , get together , club together and make sure that say the surcharge of , of each of land erm is at least being re reduced or abolished . |
| 24 | Now , after two years of deepening recession and a dearth of tourists , they are moving to the Left , incensed by government proposals to deregulate the taxi trade and give licences to minicab drivers . |
| 25 | It did say where they are moving to but i 've forgotten . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | I mean if , if they are in bed , I mean if they are there they are resting to some extent , even if they 're sort of awake but |
| 28 | Currently there are no universally accepted standards for environmental auditors to work toward , although they are beginning to be developed . |
| 29 | General knowledge quizzes of the trivial pursuit type are useful money raisers but are so popular that they are beginning to be dominated by teams that take an almost professional approach to the game . |
| 30 | They are beginning to quietly fancy their chances at Stamford Bridge . |