Example sentences of "they [be] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amongst them are found the last adepts of controlled altered states , out-of-the-body experience , psycho-navigation , environmental wisdom and time-honoured alternative methods of giving birth , healing , living and dying . |
| 2 | All building society investors and financial advisers are strongly urged to check that they are getting the best rates available . |
| 3 | Although many local authorities in their strategy documents state that they aim first at rehabilitation , I remain unconvinced that they are devoting the same resources in terms of skilled social workers with small caseloads and adequate financial support to natural families , as they do to finding and supporting new families . |
| 4 | The FMLN motto is : " land is collective property , it belongs to everyone and is for everyone " ; and they are undertaking the first steps towards a genuine agrarian reform . |
| 5 | The major institutions of society are justified by the belief that they are meeting the functional prerequisites of the social system . |
| 6 | In a survey of 450 top UK companies last year , Touche Ross discovered that although the efficiency of financial consolidation is of key importance to senior management , few finance departments have any objective measure of their performance and know whether they are using the right tools . |
| 7 | It is not always possible to say precisely which kind of eyes these are pretending to be , but the chances are that in most cases they are mimicking the forward-facing eyes of birds of prey . |
| 8 | Compact-disc video makes its entry into the British marketplace during October , but punters generally ca n't afford any new format because they are buying the various versions of singles that are deluging the record shops . |
| 9 | They are to visit the 1993 Games in Vancouver to help to plan the five-day event , which will be open to athletes who have received organ transplants . |
| 10 | Around one fifth of those replying to one question said that they are offering the general SVQs in partnership with another organisation , while one third are seeking partnership for the Skillstart awards . |
| 11 | Although spiders and insects hear the world in a very different way from us , they are sampling the same sounds carried through the air . |
| 12 | Although in its current form participation in the scheme is voluntary , companies will need to sign up in numbers if they are to meet the mandatory rules which might come into play towards the turn of the century . |
| 13 | They are invesitigating the two transactions in question , to see if there has been a breach of trust . |
| 14 | We do not object to women working the keyboards , so long as they are paid the same wages as men . |
| 15 | They are doing the right things to find a book , but the book is n't where it should be . |
| 16 | But if they are to make the right decisions , they must realise that the promise will turn to ashes if a similar progress is not made by software engineers and those who educate them . |
| 17 | Whether they are jamming the bustling streets of Kowloon , elbowing their way on to ancient trams or leaping about on the terraces at the races , Hong Kong people are enthusiasts . |
| 18 | ‘ They are making the right noises about providing them , and each year the budget gets bigger . |
| 19 | One believes they are making the same mistakes as the oil companies made — ‘ giving away the product in the hope of buying customers ’ . |
| 20 | Core electrons are not normally involved in the bonding of the molecule , and so when they are ejected the resulting ions are usually formed in their vibrational ground states . |
| 21 | cos you know it 's the new erm the intake where they 're taking the younger children . |
| 22 | They 're taking the same men on . |
| 23 | Let me just suggest to you that you are sending all the wrong signals on women , on Party constitution , on economic matters , on policy matters , the modernizers have lost the impetus , they 're sending the wrong signals . |
| 24 | ‘ The boys spent all their time together and they 're called the terrible twins because they 're so alike . ’ |
| 25 | On the other side of the world they 're called the fair maids of February , but on this side they 're known as the sweet maids of September . |
| 26 | They 're using the original drawings by Isambard Kingdom Brunel . |
| 27 | What if they 're using the public demands and the public deadline to distract attention from — something else ? ’ |
| 28 | Now they 're closing the bloody things ! |
| 29 | the Kings theatres in towns where by and large they 're showing the same shows |
| 30 | Where they 're offering the free hours counselling and er and the two days yeah you know consultancy |