Example sentences of "they are [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hypotheses , formed after his observations , are many ; but most of them are related to the empirical findings of a long tradition and the world is spared a too individualistic interpretation of some of Nature 's more self-willed manifestations . |
| 2 | Lying behind my summary evaluations of these theories is the conviction that most of them are fixated around the unhelpful idea that hegemon states exploit other states . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I 'll tell ye — nine hundred and ninety-nine of them are glued to the Holy Writ of Economic Theory ; the remaining one , which ought to be fixed on Ireland , is blind . ’ |
| 4 | Ways of using them are discussed in the next three chapters . |
| 5 | It is for the security force commanders to ensure that all the resources available to them are used with the maximum effectiveness . |
| 6 | ‘ What sometimes appear to be new strategies decentralisation , management by objectives , consultative supervision , ‘ democratic ’ leadership are usually but old wine in new bottles , because the procedures derived to implement them are derived from the same inadequate assumptions about human nature … |
| 7 | They are brutalised by the hard and constant struggle to survive . |
| 8 | Thus , when many people talk ( or think ) about CAD , they are referring to the secondary design activity wherein the seed of the idea is fully investigated and developed . |
| 9 | Fiona : They are facing in the wrong direction . |
| 10 | I think they are perceived as the state-of-the-art diesel vehicles . |
| 11 | All Players must have this strength if they are to succeed at the top level . |
| 12 | Whilst they are searching for the relevant information , their inventories of unsold goods will start to build up . |
| 13 | Now they are searching for the fourth sister Pamela , who walked out at the age of 15 after a row with her father . |
| 14 | However we make sure that they are manufactured to the latest BSI standards using only the best quality materials . |
| 15 | ‘ They are geared to the narrow dimensions of their own sports . |
| 16 | The effect of these EDMs is measured by the number of signatures they attract when they are printed on the daily Order paper . |
| 17 | The following comprises notes from a transcription of a tape of a lecture by Dr. Dey , they are printed in the good faith that they give as true a representation as is possible of his words . |
| 18 | They are selected in the same way as other recruits but not given a contract of employment . |
| 19 | given the circumstances and difficulties outlined above , it must be certain that the refusals will include perfectly good payers , simply because they are stamped with the same circumstantial warning signs as the bad payers . |
| 20 | Standards can be set , but arrangements for ensuring that they are maintained in the private sector are still inadequate . |
| 21 | In some yellow meadow ant colonies there are two sizes or worker : the smaller ones specialise in larval care and stay in the nest , where they are fed by the larger workers , which presumably do the foraging . |
| 22 | They are made by the official team representative and take the form of a written deposition to the Chief Referee of the day . |
| 23 | Although these animals ' eyes are bizarrely constructed , they are tuned into the same light as most of the rest of the natural world . |
| 24 | Thus , the discount houses may be making losses on the loans they are repaying to the commercial banks . |
| 25 | Yet half the names could not leave even if they wanted to : they are locked into the 58 ( out of a total of 401 ) Lloyd 's syndicates that have been unable to close one or more of their past annual accounts , so unquantifiable are the liabilities stacking up against them . |
| 26 | They are caused by the giant plates which carry the continents bumping and grinding into each other as they float around the Earth 's molten centre . |
| 27 | In the second place , even those people who have heard of the doctrine , and who accept it , do not , in far the greater number of cases , base their judgements that two states belong to the same self on a previous conviction that they are caused by the same body . |
| 28 | They are phased with the helical pitch of the DNA . |
| 29 | Instead of rooting them out and replacing them , we can leave them undisturbed until they are intermingled with the new presuppositions of Christian truth which should be the sole foundation of the Christian 's mind . |
| 30 | Here they seem to be thrown on with an easy freedom , there they are adjusted with the nicest touches . |