Example sentences of "they be [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said most of them are lived in anyway so you can go anytime it suits . |
| 2 | He has several businesses in the district — a bobbin mill , a gunpowder factory , a cotton mill , and more — and what they have in common is that the people — usually women and children — who are unfortunate enough to be employed in them are driven as cruelly as possible and paid as little as possible . |
| 3 | International discussion is eased if they are distinguished as far as possible . |
| 4 | Amongst users they are assessed more positively than traditional residential areas by non-motorised users , but not by motorists . |
| 5 | It is so much easier to understand detailed and complicated financial figures when they are explained graphically rather than as a mass of figures on a piece of paper . |
| 6 | They are going as far as Collie . |
| 7 | They are expected so far as practicable to make decisions on benefit entitlement within 14 days , but this time limit is frequently exceeded . |
| 8 | They are caught very well since they are travelling at top speed . |
| 9 | They are considered together here because of their close association with each other — girls experiencing institutional care also show a particularly high rate of premarital pregnancy ( Quinton et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 10 | Not only do the results have no bearing on rankings — and therefore do not matter — but they are forgotten so far as historical records are concerned almost before the players have walked off the court . |
| 11 | Are there events taking place that we will never ever see because they 're so far away , or maybe they 're taking place in such a way that they 're moving away faster than the light is travelling in our direction ? |
| 12 | They 're moving further away than ever . |
| 13 | Er they 're getting on well because erm , er we live in a close er society . |
| 14 | No they 're playing here today because erm Hughey 's got to do math 's homework . |
| 15 | I think they 're doing as well as can be expected . |
| 16 | I can imagine some unpleasant things happening with the sling , too ; the sling-bombs have to be on a pretty short fuse if they 're to detonate soon enough after they land not to be throw-backable , and I 've had a couple of close calls already when they 've gone off just after they left the sling . |
| 17 | Between them they 're turning out more than 300 puppets a day . |
| 18 | Well they 're sitting down again cos they were so hopeless Mrs , no that was a sit down , listen , that 's a and it goes down , down down |
| 19 | The action and control areas were carefully selected so that they were matched as far as possible in terms both of the number of referrals to the psychogeriatric service in the previous year , and of 1981 census data on the number of elderly people resident , particularly those aged 80 and over , the housing amenities of elderly people and the proportion of elderly people living alone ( see Table 2.1 ) . |
| 20 | After the war , the army dumped thousands of these sets on cadet forces , where they were treated far harder than in any battle zone . |
| 21 | Russian diplomats in west-European capitals until the end of the seventeenth century expected to be maintained by the rulers to whom they were accredited , and often complained vociferously when they were treated less generously than they had expected . |
| 22 | The EC has ruled against unfair dismissal of pregnant women — they no longer have to claim that they were treated more harshly than a sick man . |
| 23 | They were squashed even further when the other two joined them for coffee and later in the bar . |
| 24 | They were gone as suddenly as they had come . |
| 25 | The commercial men resented thus having to create a negative image of their product , but this was the least the industry could do to allay government criticism that they were expanding more rapidly than resources allowed . |
| 26 | And when the CEGB 's geologists were sent out to look at the geological substrata , they were harassed as heavily as the waste dumpers had been . |
| 27 | Two High Court judges upheld the right of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board to refuse payouts to two women because they were sought too long after the abuse took place . |
| 28 | Although the French may have persuaded themselves that they were moving as fast as they could towards the ‘ perfection ’ of Vietnamese independence , it was perhaps indulgent of Acheson to have allowed himself to be persuaded as well . |
| 29 | But then by the time they were fin he retired and they were finishing they were ta they were taking about less than half the time . |
| 30 | And he could n't do it , because , the pair of them , I mean , that was , that business was supporting his mother as well and between them , after they 'd paid for the petrol , they were taking in less than a hundred pounds a week and that was for the two of them . |