Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb base] be [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But BBC officials are waking up to the fact that , while they have been allocated both of Britain 's channels for high-power satellite broadcasts , the kind that could be received direct into people 's homes , they have no monopoly on low-power transmissions from satellites , the kind that could be picked up by central receiving stations — and transmitted via cable to homes . |
| 2 | They started to especially trainee managers , spending periods of time in the smaller branch , and they 've got to get on with that concern , but I think there are benefits since they 've been doing that . |
| 3 | Here their superiors criticise them for failing after they have been given such brilliant training . |
| 4 | It is what people do with them after they have been issued that 's the problem . |
| 5 | Erm , but it is a body , it 's corpus as in body and and what the British National Corpus is doing , is putting together a massive amount of spoken English , erm , from all sorts of different contexts , and one of the contexts which they want spoken English from is an educational context , and so they are having to record you people , as they 've been recording some other people erm , in other educational institutions around the country and so on . |
| 6 | As they have been fighting each other on much of it , any agreement to stop must represent progress . |