Example sentences of "they [be] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lee , who left the family home in Skelton two years ago , came in from the cold to highlight the plight of the young homeless : the Rural Development Commission says more than 14,000 people in country areas are without a home 12pc of the national total and many of them are forced to leave rural areas altogether . |
| 2 | In support of this view , a number of studies have indicated that language-impaired children make significant improvements if the adults around them are induced to make systematic changes in certain aspects of their language ( Howlin 1984 ; McLean and Snyder 1978 ) . |
| 3 | A similar focus on the war 's effect in shattering class barriers is present in In Which We Serve ( 1942 ) , where the trigger to unity is a torpedoed destroyer rather than a crashed plane , The Gentle Sex ( 1943 ) , which follows a group of women as they are trained to become competent fighters , and Millions Like Us ( 1943 ) , which brings together a mixed group of girls in an aircraft engineering factory . |
| 4 | They are employed to give infinitesimal steerage-changes to the Salyut and Soyuz vehicles as they manoeuvre to dock in space . |
| 5 | They are asked to create still images of an incident they saw on one of their journeys back in time , as if these were holographic , three dimensional pictures . |
| 6 | As Macdonald explains , it seems that women are either invisible in most school textbooks or , when they appear at all , they are seen performing low-status tasks . |
| 7 | The US also released a list of other European products on which they are considering imposing additional duties if negotiations with the EC ‘ failed to result in adequate reform ’ of its system of agricultural subsidies on oilseed exports . |
| 8 | The most important approach , which is reaching its limits , is to increase the rate at which the computer 's components are ‘ clocked ’ , how often they are told to perform simple operations . |
| 9 | A combination of factors — including cost and disruption to office life , together with the recession and an inability to provide the right balance of work experience — means that either smaller firms are not training at all or they are opting to train certified accountants and accounting technicians . |
| 10 | Photographs from the 1940s depict the gaunt and hungry faces of workers in the fields , whereas those photographed in the 1980s are well-fed and healthy as they are shown assembling electronic accessories in thoroughly modern factories . |
| 11 | ‘ They are going to use spoiling tactics . |
| 12 | ‘ If students are going to be landed with a debt at the end of three years , they are going to choose vocational courses so that they can be certain of getting a job when they graduate and so pay off the loan . ’ |
| 13 | Because they are designed to justify certain propositions , the questions they ask are formulated in such a way as to prompt the desired answers . |
| 14 | The actions to be described next are most effective in the here-and-now ; they are designed to resolve immediate problems . |
| 15 | Giant clams rest with their shells slightly apart , not because they are waiting to trap unwary divers , but so as to expose the algae within the fleshy mantle . |
| 16 | Because of the competition for jobs , they are forced to accept low wages . |
| 17 | The problem is compounded further by the fact that software houses are unable to predict what precise configuration is going to be present and so they are forced to provide numerous drivers for peripherals such as displays and printers . |
| 18 | Picrite basalts from the Karoo flood basalt province have been the subject of extensive geochemical study , in part because they are considered to represent primitive magmas similar to parental liquids that evolve to form the abundant , tholeiitic basalts typical of this and other flood basalt provinces . |
| 19 | Expatriates may be sent overseas because there is a specific demand for their skills , because they are needed to train local employees in particular procedures or because the expatriates themselves are to receive training so that they can return to their home countries to pass on their newly acquired skills . |
| 20 | For ease of reference I shall call both reasons of this character and the reasons they are meant to reflect dependent reasons . |
| 21 | The reason that the overall effects of schemata are difficult to specify is that they are thought to have separate effects on different processes . |
| 22 | When these two approaches are compared they are found to have various advantages and disadvantages over each other . |
| 23 | But at the same time , they are to start planting new churches . |
| 24 | Languages therefore differ widely in the way they are equipped to handle various notions and express various aspects of experience , possibly because they differ in the degree of importance or relevance that they attach to such aspects of experience . |
| 25 | u People feel more relaxed if they are allowed to wear casual clothes , says Samantha , 22 . |
| 26 | He does n't really mean that elephants do n't need an explanation ; rather that he is satisfied that biologists can explain elephants , provided they are allowed to take certain facts of physics for granted . |
| 27 | Sometimes they are used to test psychological norms in areas where dominant discourses suggest that they might differ from them , like cognitive development , educational attainment , mental disorder , self-concept , and family structure . |
| 28 | The pragmatics of all these statements — the ways they are used to produce certain effects on the people to whom they are addressed — are thus tied to their propaganda value for particular campaigns or positions , or to their instrumental value in furthering the personal or political objectives of particular individuals or groups . |
| 29 | They are used to produce everyday items such as clothes , paint , carpets , food packaging , disinfectants , life-giving medicines … the list is endless . |
| 30 | Neutrophils did not express the lysozyme signal , though they are known to have large stores of the protein . |