Example sentences of "they be do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some cases might be summed up as ‘ What have they been doing wrong and how can they be put right ? ’ |
| 2 | It is thus both a ‘ What have they been doing wrong and how can it be put right ? ’ and a ‘ Which way should they go now ? ’ case . |
| 3 | Those still with troublesome suspicions should have asked themselves how Pakistan 's fast men could have survived the Cornhill Test series had they been doing something illegal to the ball while on view not only to alert umpires and batting opponents but to thousands of onlookers at the various grounds and before the probing eye of television . |
| 4 | What 've they been doing to you ? |
| 5 | What have they been doing all this time ? ’ |
| 6 | What had they been doing ? |
| 7 | or not long after so why have they been doing that if there 's nothing much to do ? |
| 8 | The issue is whether making the protean forms of racism seem more omnipotent , cohesive and enduring than they are does after all serve to strengthen and unify the antiracist movement , or whether it reinforces the more sectarian elements within it . |
| 9 | The master is liable for wrongful acts and defaults of his servant — though they may be unauthorized or even forbidden by him — so long as they are done within the scope of the employment . |
| 10 | Buy an exercise tape ( or video ) that covers general aerobics ( exercises for suppleness and strength , plus stamina if they are done fast enough ) . |
| 11 | Instead I am convinced they are done by those literary graffiti artists who compose the rhymes in Christmas cards and are executed in a state of tired insobriety and cynicism on new year 's morning . |
| 12 | I just sit and have a good read until they are done . |
| 13 | There are good habits and bad habits but the main point about them is that they are all behaviour patterns which have been so thoroughly learned that they are done automatically without any conscious effort . |
| 14 | Even gentle exercises , such as Yoga , can put tremendous stress on the body if they are done without first dealing with the fundamental issues of end-gaining and faulty sensory perception . |
| 15 | Use the best quality paper , and if you are getting several photocopies made make sure they are done on good quality paper and not ordinary photocopy paper . |
| 16 | Fortunately for frail elderly people , there are many who offer altruistic neighbouring acts , that is to say , they are done without assumptions of reciprocity ; the gratification which they obtain is in a sense their own private business ! |
| 17 | The level of demand is to do not only with the tasks as they are done but also with the duration for which they must continue to be done . |
| 18 | Fiction and drama , when they are done well and provide a convincing , realistic context in which serious crimes occur , can often enable us to imagine ourselves doing things which , in the abstract description , we would consider impossible . |
| 19 | If a government , using its majority in Parliament , passes appropriate laws empowering it to do specified acts , are its activities thereby rendered legitimate because they are done in accordance with the law , regardless of how oppressive or repugnant those laws might be ? |
| 20 | They are done weekly on the radio in the lunch hour , and people listen to them in factories by the million . |
| 21 | Because rateable valuations are expensive to undertake , they are done infrequently and irregularly . |
| 22 | The complaint used to be , and still in some schools is , that they are done ad nauseam . |
| 23 | To give parables to very young children for example is likely to be unhelpful unless they are done in a particularly skilful way , because they might be just accepted as a story ( Ainsworth 1968 ) . |
| 24 | The punters are typically those C2 social groups whom , we are told , the Conservatives must retain if they are to do well on Thursday . |
| 25 | They are to do with my profession and they bother me increasingly . |
| 26 | earn a little extra income shall I put it and far from the majority of traditional methods they are to do it legally and set up little typewriting agencies etcetera and if you keep your eye on the notice boards you 'll see various . |
| 27 | It is not intended as an effort at resolving these debates : my objectives are specific and political — they are to do with action . |
| 28 | In other words , the two sentences might go together , but the reasons are not strictly linguistic ; they are to do with our knowledge of the world where these events take place ( although that knowledge may also have come to us through language ) . |
| 29 | They are to do battle in one of the most sensational libel cases ever seen in an Irish court . |
| 30 | ‘ They need ammunition from midfield if they are to do their work , however . ’ |