Example sentences of "they [be] [verb] [pron] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , not only are legal firms unable to maximise the amount of extra business they can sell through cross-fertilisation of other specialised services , they are losing it to other providers of information and advice . |
| 2 | Girls can be encouraged to take modules in technology without feeling they are committing themselves to two years ' or more work ; low achieving pupils can take a range of modules without suffering the indignity of following a programme that marks them out as ‘ different ’ . |
| 3 | So they can enter the secondary schools and they 're selling it to these young kids that just do n't know any better . |
| 4 | They 're changing it to more exams I mean , it changes to G C S E in the first place to get rid of having |
| 5 | See this was after the nationalization and the policy of the railway executive at that time was to instead of two stations in one town , they were all they were reducing it to one station you see . |
| 6 | Checking their activities to see that they were confining themselves to local products , and were not turning to smuggling was very difficult until improvements in transport and in the structure of government meant that the vast majority of imports paid duty . |