Example sentences of "they [be] [adj] [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The class level is building up , but North Down stress that quantity is just as high on their agenda and they are keen to attract as many fun runners and joggers as possible . |
| 2 | Steve Powell , who plays for the away team said : ‘ Obviously , the prison team can only play at home but they are anxious to play more friendly matches . ’ |
| 3 | We ca n't we devise publishing concepts which capture children 's imaginations in such a way that they are confident to spend as much time talking about what they have been reading as they are about last night 's episode of ‘ Neighbours ’ ? |
| 4 | They are easiest to design where all the basins , baths , sinks and WCs in a house are close together and/or directly above one another so that pipe runs to the stack can be kept short . |
| 5 | They did not push me out of their watering hole because I was unsuitably dressed , but because females are only admissible if they are willing to pose as deferential ‘ little women ’ . |
| 6 | Officials already say they are willing to discuss more flexible ways of operating the ERM , in order to bring sterling and the lira back into the fold . |
| 7 | Possibly they are apt to become too ambitious — they rarely succumb to the disease of ‘ fontitis ’ but are only too apt to have bad attacks of ‘ linkitis ’ and ‘ activitis ’ . |
| 8 | However , if the agent finds out , they are unlikely to work so hard to sell your property . |
| 9 | This is not to be confused with a condescending adoption of pupil style , which they are quick to read as false ( even when it is a genuine identification ) . |
| 10 | The next time they are able to gather together enough courage to set out for the supermarket they may get only as far as point B before they have had enough , anticipating more extreme levels of anxiety if they continue . |
| 11 | MANY children are so unfit they are unable to do even basic exercises , a study revealed yesterday . |
| 12 | Why is it that governments are so concerned about high inflation rates that they are prepared to put so much effort into its control and even tolerate a rise in unemployment ? |
| 13 | They say they are prepared to extinguish only those rights of common — attached to local property and covering things like grazing cattle and collecting firewood — which apply to land on which hangars , missile shelters , nuclear bomb stores and other military installations have already been built . |
| 14 | According to this system , Structure Plans are supposed to spawn District Plans : the District Plans are supposed to look at problems set out in the Structure Plan in more depth , and they are supposed to show how general planning policies might be worked out in practice . |
| 15 | Whichever of the possibilities is realised in practice , we would expect the two languages — Creole and unrelated Standard — to retain their integrity as languages and not to converge linguistically to any great extent , except in terms of vocabulary : in other words , they are likely to remain fundamentally dissimilar in their grammar and phonology . |
| 16 | They are likely to need very careful handling if their substitute parents are to establish a happy relationship with them . |
| 17 | In June , when they are set to be sold , they are likely to become fiercely competitive . |
| 18 | My letters , my telegrams , they 're all sent back unopened . |
| 19 | Cos they 're all looking pretty blank anyway you know . |
| 20 | And , and they 're all sort of preserved and they 're all to bring down clean . |
| 21 | About nine okay and they 're all spread out little bits various levels and |
| 22 | Oh well me mother said , If they 're all coming right all my family 's coming . |
| 23 | Er they 're both given very good performance . |
| 24 | By opportunities for learning that can be at depth , about learning about ourselves , but also the practical things like what do you say to a child whose father 's come back mutilated from war erm how do you write a letter to a bereaved person , and I think children I mean they are capable of doing this , I 've seen it with my own children , with some help they 're able to express quite deep emotions , you know , to somebody who 's had a bereavement , and if they can learn that now , you know , it 's going to be a lot easier later on . |
| 25 | They 're lucky to get so much as a mouthful . |
| 26 | I was once or twice approached by stony-faced nuns begging for charities , but I gave nothing because I felt sure that some of those nuns were fakes , possibly men in drag , for their big , dark , hollow eyes , dyspeptic noses bright red in chalk-white faces , compressed , colourless lips and faint moustaches were hardly the signs of religious penance , and they were all wearing rather large boots . |
| 27 | Despite being thrown from water with a temperature of 19°C and a pH of 7 into water of 24°C and a pH of 7.9 the previous evening and then virtually desiccated , they were all feeding later that day . |
| 28 | Cardiff pushed past , and now they were all heading down that corridor past the two elevators on their left ; still looking back to the reception doors lest that monstrous shadow should suddenly reappear . |
| 29 | A total of 65 industrial premises are empty now compared with 30 two years ago , and Mr Owen estimates if they were all occupied around 2,780 new jobs would be created . |
| 30 | Well the County made certificates for the Polytechnic phase two student hostels off John Garne Way , er that actually for phase one was about the last time they got an award at all , and er the panel were very pleased with those , they said they had a nice community feel , and yet the occupants had some privacy , they thought they , and they were pleased to see how well phase one had weathered as well . |