Example sentences of "they [verb] [be] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fish that used to feed them has been taken away to feed animals . |
| 2 | These poets are trying to speak for the lost generations , condemned forever to inarticulacy ; and to speak aloud about simple things that they had been forbidden even to think about . |
| 3 | They had been brought here to round up the escaped prisoners but fortunately no one was giving them any information . |
| 4 | The existence of these two adversaries reflecting incompatible interests poses practical problems for the water authorities , for while they have been established ostensibly to advance environmentalist values , and serve as a concrete expression of the belief that intervention is proper and necessary ( for which they have been equipped with the criminal law ) , they find that their legitimacy as enforcement agencies is sometimes questionable . |
| 5 | They have been advised only to admit callers who can present one of the enclosed passes ( a copy will not be sufficient for these purposes ) and provide any further identification that might reasonably be expected . |
| 6 | They have been known both to help and to hurt the desert people . |