Example sentences of "be [adj] [conj] [verb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There , they are likely to listen sympathetically and you may be lucky and catch them on a quiet day . |
| 2 | But when researchers cut sections of these rings , ground them down into slices so thin that they were translucent and examined them through the microscope , they found , preserved in the chert , the shapes of simple organisms , each no more than one or two hundredths of a millimetre across . |
| 3 | Molly congratulated the 16 successful candidates at this year 's examination , presented certificates to those who were present and welcomed them to their first training day as qualified teachers . |
| 4 | The men deny taking nude pictures of the girls while they themselves were naked and showing them to the children 's mother . |
| 5 | If the algorithms for correction of the above four types of spelling errors were to be applied to our system , it is unlikely that applying them to the highest-rated allowable string ( if there are any allowable strings ) is going to find the intended word . |