Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] they be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As part of our routine annual review of allocations , we shall continue to consider how best to ensure that funds are targeted where they are most needed . |
| 2 | Among the first people known to have used pearls for jewellery were the ancient Egyptians , who wore them as pendants to earrings and threaded onto necklaces alongside cowries , coral , scarabs and precious stones certainly as early as the middle of the second millennium B.C. Tomb paintings depict them wearing pearls on their clothing and chest-ornaments of mother-of-pearl suggest that they were already exploiting the Red Sea fisheries , later mentioned by Strabo and other Classical writers , by the twelfth dynasty . |
| 3 | Why this 1% of 17 year olds still had a non-retractile foreskin was not stated , but data from a subsequent study suggest that they were probably suffering from balanitis xerotica obliterans . |
| 4 | Studies of individual towns suggest that they were severely hit , that properties were deserted and that in some cases parishes had to be united , as the existing ones were too poor to maintain the services of the Church ( 77 , pp.286–8 ) . |
| 5 | This is , this is where Deborah will then go back , this is , comes into your three hour training so you wo n't have this problem cos they 'll all have been , they 'll all know that they 're just talking about certain things . |
| 6 | They include , to give just a few examples , realizing that they have re-read the same page of a book three times without taking any of it in ; nearly getting knocked over crossing the road ; yelling ‘ Tie ! ’ at a pupil they do n't know ; noticing that they are both reading a magazine and watching the television while having their evening meal ; spotting the line of empty wine bottles that has accrued since the weekend . |
| 7 | The Soviet Union has reclassified three army divisions , all with heavy equipment , as naval forces , and has claimed that they are thereby excluded from the terms of the treaty : a trick the West calls cheating . |
| 8 | In addition to supporting CCITT standards , the companies say that they are also aiming for compatibility with the US Advanced Intelligent Network specifications . |
| 9 | The couple and their children have been rehoused by the local council — they say that they are definately going to fit smoke alarms to their new home . |
| 10 | The lawyers for the Pierre Matisse estate say that they are currently preparing an amended tax declaration and that the State needs to decide what will happen to the picture . |
| 11 | They do n't point to complex living mechanisms and say that they are self-evidently designed by a creator , just like a watch . |
| 12 | Six per cent of the men in our survey say that they were sexually abused as children . |
| 13 | They could remember a world which they had known and recognized compared to the fragmentation of their work and lives that they were now experiencing . |
| 14 | We also tested a sample of autistic children in the chocolate-finding task and found that they were again behaving just like the three-year-olds : going to the baited box for twenty trials , despite wanting to win chocolates and occasionally trying to filch them from the experimenter 's bag . |
| 15 | Later that year we met other Soviet researchers and found that they were also studying the stabilising effect of longitudinal fields on pinches . |
| 16 | It meant that she started off at an advantage , for as soon as they imagined they had caused her misery they found that they were only confirming her grim and ribald idea of the way things would always be . |
| 17 | He found that they were suddenly eating pizza and jokingly said oh they might have got him one , so one of them used a police car to take him to the nearest all night pizza place and then he walked back to the airport and waited , having done a deal with the one taxi driver who was there , and he and shared a taxi , arriving home c. 0215 and then proceeded to have a meal of a MASS of pasta and sauce previously made by me , and of a type which both boys always ask day in day out when here or there ! |
| 18 | The oil-shipping system is basically safe — so safe that men forget that they are still required to run it properly . |
| 19 | Alternatively checks can be built into the system that restrict the availability of certain specific products unless the potential users can demonstrate that they are suitably equipped . |
| 20 | CIA Marketing Director Bryan Squibb said : ‘ More than half the companies surveyed have left themselves unprotected against bad debt and reported that they were merely making bad debt provisions , taking legal action , vetting customers or using debt collection agencies . |
| 21 | The symptoms are generally worse the further you fly and they are more marked after eastward flights than those to the west . |
| 22 | ‘ Looks like they are just comin' over the Cathedral wall . |
| 23 | Forty-four per cent of men do n't know if they are well endowed ; 32% say they 're not ; and 24% say they are . |
| 24 | I mean … when will we know if they 're both going to be able to pull through ? ’ |
| 25 | Pick the details you want included and they 're automatically inserted in your document , along with the mailmerge codes . |
| 26 | The revenue obtained a huge sum of money which they had no right to demand and they are now hanging on to a very large amount of interest which they have no moral right to retain . |
| 27 | Mix in the fish strips until they are well coated . |
| 28 | Millwall 's protests ended with Cunningham being booked and they were still arguing at the end . |
| 29 | Looked like they were just going to have to get along with things the way they were until their time was up . |
| 30 | The flaw in this disposition was that the advancing Germans were not only more numerous than the Allies had supposed but they were also moving in a more extended arc than had been expected . |