Example sentences of "they be [verb] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And all of them are having to deal with innovation in some way or other . |
| 2 | In this respect , a famously offensive passage by Rousseau on the education of girls may be seen as , after all , no more than realistic for period and place : recommending that girls be taught to break off games they are enjoying to return to work without complaint , he writes : |
| 3 | If the surgeon believes that they would benefit from an operation , their names are placed on the waiting list and they are asked to come into hospital when a bed is available . |
| 4 | In the entertainments industry one of the organizations to which we spoke pointed out that , precisely because the positions they are seeking to fill around Christmas are advertised as seasonal or temporary positions of a rather limited duration , they are normally filled by people with little interest in staying . |
| 5 | So the , the the only land that we are taking in is landlord land and the land that rich peasants rent out over and above , if er in size larger than the land they are going to continue to work , either themselves or with hired labour . |
| 6 | The question is whether they are going to fall in line uncritically with the dominant interests of the sectors in which they work , or whether they are going to act constructively with a larger view — a view with a grasp of the general public interest . |
| 7 | As all year 9 pupils throughout England choose what subjects they are going to take for G.C.S.E. St Aidans was n't any different . |
| 8 | Seventy per cent of them are worried about where they are going to stay on release . |
| 9 | As children with special educational needs grow in reading competence , increasing demands are made on their skills because they are expected to learn through reading . |
| 10 | This is an action requesting the court to require a minister — or local authority — to do what they are required to do by statute . |
| 11 | Among the factors which they are required to take into account in reaching a decision are the seriousness of the offence , and whether their own powers of punishment would be adequate if the defendant were to be convicted ( section 19 , Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 ) . |
| 12 | The significant fact about both phrase types is that we have two property words — a major one ( the verb ) extended by a minor qualifying one — and they are linked together to form a more complex property before they are permitted to enter into construction with a syntactic object . |
| 13 | Can it help Third World countries as they are forced to choose between capitalism and Marxism both of which seem to have unattractive features ? |
| 14 | They are forced to work in isolation , even though it is riskier to do so . |
| 15 | How they are used depends on accent , language , locality or simply the way people talk . |
| 16 | It has been said , in the first place , that they are used to throw into relief the particular property in the noun phrase which is of interest to the speaker ; that is , that adjectives are used postnominally for the sake of emphasis . |
| 17 | I erm am raising this issue today , in order to give the Government the opportunity of telling the House what action they are proposing to take in respect of a serious error which has been made in the Rail Privatisation Legislation . |
| 18 | On the Swindon council Thamesdown , for instance , Labour hold such a grip that they 're bound to remain in control . |
| 19 | The staff are n't trained counsellors and Mr Higgins admits they 're learning to deal with caller 's emotional problems as they go along , or refer them to other organisations such as the Samaritans . |
| 20 | After 3 years of winning silver gilt medals , they 're hoping to go for gold this year . |
| 21 | Well the stitches are pulling where they 're , where they 're trying to heal of course , they 're pulling . |
| 22 | but a when when somebody when it 's becoming apparent that somebody is I would n't say is not interested in your little complaint that you 've got and that that they 're they 're trying to change to subject it 's difficult to keep them on it |
| 23 | So after completing my National Service , I did all the things that everybody does when they 're trying to break into show business , urged on by my father 's insistence that I found employment of some sort — ‘ Get a job , any job , just get one ! |
| 24 | and they 're going to concentrate on community |
| 25 | Of course they 're going to find in Scripture the sexist views which conform to their own narrow-minded view of the world . |
| 26 | In the meantime , they 're making do without furniture . |
| 27 | When can they be planned to feed into GCSE assignments ? |
| 28 | Some standardised measure of dementia was needed , partly as a criterion of entry to the project , partly so that action and control samples could be compared to see if they were matched according to level of mental impairment , and partly to compare any changes over time . |
| 29 | And in the process of course destroying the old Europe , allowing the very thing that , arguably , they were trying to stop from happening , to happen , that is to say , allowing the Russians to advance towards the Elbe , and allowing the Anglo-Saxons as they see it to erm come from the west and taken over the western half of Europe . |
| 30 | A hundred and twenty people have been killed after terrorists exploded a bomb in the cockpit of a plane they were trying to highjack in South China . |