Example sentences of "[subord] they [be] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where they 're offering the free hours counselling and er and the two days yeah you know consultancy |
| 2 | You ca n't away with er some bum figures like this one , it 's not good enough for the members to give , be given wrong information and I and I can tell you this we 'll be coming back again and then we would know and where they were getting where they were getting the seventeen homes |
| 3 | Taking two , freshly caught Highland sea-trout , he placed them on the mud flats below the bridge , where they were found the next morning . |
| 4 | No sooner had Courtaulds read the comments by our Metro 's previous keeper , Jill Stanton — that the material had developed ‘ bobbly sweater syndrome ’ ( 25 July ) than they were inspecting the offending objects with microscopes and pronouncing themselves shocked and baffled . |
| 5 | What if they 're using the public demands and the public deadline to distract attention from — something else ? ’ |
| 6 | Ask them if they 're having the same problem . ’ |
| 7 | They 've been hiring us for ten years but we , we ai n't gon na hire no more if they 're changing the bloody engines . |
| 8 | Martin Braine found that if children between five and six years of age are shown a standard visual illusion — such as a stick in water appearing to be broken , by light refraction — they will distinguish correctly between ‘ looks ? ’ and ‘ really ? ’ questions , but that if they are asked the neutral question ‘ Is the stick straight or broken ? ’ they will say that it is broken . |
| 9 | This is a welcome development since children need the support of consistent teaching and sensible attitudes if they are to acquire the fluent and legible hand they need for communication . |
| 10 | But experience has shown that it is possible to create elite , high-calibre long-term support teams if they are given the right leadership and training , an attractive physical environment to work from , good pay and conditions of service and , crucially , a set of realistic objectives about what they are trying to achieve . |
| 11 | If pupils are motivated to learn to use spoken Standard English because they wish to adopt a social role , they will learn it if they are given the appropriate educational experiences and opportunities . |
| 12 | Only a little thought will show what a nonsense this is , for , as we have just seen , no two individuals manifest their illnesses in exactly the same way even if they are given the same disease label . |
| 13 | If they are given the green light then the running costs will have to come from the police authority . |
| 14 | Equally I believe that local communities too must feel that the police are to them if they are to give the positive help which the police need to successfully detect and prosecute the criminals who prey on them . |
| 15 | Scotland must use their backs in London if they are to lift the Triple Crown and Calcutta Cup . |
| 16 | He is the incumbent for Peterborough , the seat which , arithmetically , need to fall to Labour if they are to form the next government with an overall majority . |
| 17 | EVERTON must change the habit of a lifetime if they are to arrest the current slide this weekend with a victory at Nottingham Forest , writes Ken Rogers . |
| 18 | With each attack , it is as if they are meeting the distasteful animal tor the first time . |
| 19 | Now that the objection based on shareholder rights to viewing companies as social enterprises has been removed , we can proceed to a provisional account of the objectives companies should be required to adopt if they are to serve the public interest . |
| 20 | Local archives also need the support of larger institutions if they are to provide the necessary technical facilities demanded by the storage of electronic records . |
| 21 | If the countries of the poor world are to escape from the most serious forms of dependence , and if they are to get the best social and economic benefit from their resources , it is essential that they have control over their resources . |
| 22 | But if they are to make the right decisions , they must realise that the promise will turn to ashes if a similar progress is not made by software engineers and those who educate them . |
| 23 | England will need frequent penetration on the wings if they are to make the most of Lineker and Bull . |
| 24 | Although in its current form participation in the scheme is voluntary , companies will need to sign up in numbers if they are to meet the mandatory rules which might come into play towards the turn of the century . |
| 25 | Bankers and regulators agree that hundreds , even thousands , of American banks will need to merge if they are to survive the 1990s . |
| 26 | Fears grow of where the Serbs may turn next , if they are permitted the ultimate triumph from which none is willing to deflect them . |
| 27 | However , it is essential for private sector as well as official transactions to be denominated in SDRs if they are to become the principal reserve asset . |
| 28 | BRITAIN 's independent schools will have to replace or modify the traditional Common Entrance examination if they are to follow the new national curriculum , a former independent head warns , writes Simon Midgley . |
| 29 | However , since tests are always used by different people in different settings , it is also necessary to know something about the extent to which the same tester may achieve stable scores , when the test is given to the same person on different occasions , or the extent to which the scores from different testers would be comparable if they were to test the same individual . |
| 30 | ‘ If they were to persuade the greater number of those living in Northern Ireland to agree with them , then Her Majesty 's Government would present no obstacle , ’ said Sir Patrick . |