Example sentences of "they [be] [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them are reluctant to ask visiting relatives , who may already be doing shopping for them , to run extra errands , such as taking prescriptions to the chemist or clothes to the launderette or dry cleaners , changing their library books and collecting their pension ; so it is always as well to check to make sure that you are meeting these needs , or arranging for someone else to do so . |
| 2 | They argued that existing maps and digitized files from them are unable to meet these needs at global or regional scale and only remote sensing could help in the short term : the availability of stereometric data from the French SPOT satellite has already led to proposals for automated creation of global digital elevation models with a spatial ( XY ) resolution of about 30 m ( Muller 1989 ) . |
| 3 | If they are fortunate to have enough money , where are they to find out that that helpline exists and obtain the numbers ? |
| 4 | RFL principals of an MNP are not prohibited from having separate legal practices as foreign lawyers , but they are obliged to institute certain safeguards so as to ensure that clients of the foreign legal practice do not believe they are receiving services through an MNP . |
| 5 | But to do so , he maintains , they are obliged to make impossible assumptions that " generate analyses that are completely off the mark " . |
| 6 | ‘ If the custodian works alone on the site , sometimes it is not possible to spend much time with a school party — but they are keen to get good support material they can give to teachers . |
| 7 | Except for those few unhappy souls who have so lost their emotional capacities that they are grateful to have all choice removed from their lives , each person who hears the prison door clang feels a desolation at being cut off from the life of the world and from those they love . |
| 8 | When travelling in Europe , they are shocked to see uniformed men , toting automatic weapons , roaming through airports and train depots . |
| 9 | Nearly half of these people never attend a place of worship and quite often they are unwilling to use religious language at all because they do not want to be associated with a particular religious institution . |
| 10 | The Conservative 's active citizen is essentially apolitical , doing service to the community in non-political ways , and the Conservatives sometimes give the impression that they are anxious to eliminate political activity from many aspects of community life . |
| 11 | They are such buy little things at the weekends . |
| 12 | However , there are more significant problems in that the same kinds of organizations and the same kinds of services are often accounted for differently although they are all adopting budgetary accounting . |
| 13 | They are concerned to find new ways and means whereby individuals can be freed from existing constraints and afforded the possibility of individual growth and development through collective action . |
| 14 | They are free to ignore social research , and often do . |
| 15 | The second part of the festival , which resulted in the final performance , raised vital questions about the way women relate to one another when they are free to make real choices . |
| 16 | In this respect too , the court is exercising its power of review , by identifying more closely for the police the questions that they must ask themselves in deciding whether or not they are entitled to take preventive action . |
| 17 | If people want to better themselves , they are entitled to enjoy this sort of instruction : it should not be denied them in a civilised society . |
| 18 | The added advantage for parents is that they can listen to audio tapes in the car on their way to work or as a background while they are busy doing other things around the house . |
| 19 | They are welcome to hold other kinds of fund raising events in the castle . ’ |
| 20 | However , 70 per cent said that they are willing to pay higher prices for environmentally safe goods and services . |
| 21 | There is evidence too that people see the two sectors of health care as complementary rather than in opposition : they are happy to use private medicine for specific purposes but want a strong publicly funded NHS as the backbone of the health care system ( Taylor-Gooby 1985 ) . |
| 22 | Yet the red and black cinnabar moth has caterpillars which , while they are happy to eat innocuous weeds such as groundsel , are also ragwort specialists . |
| 23 | Dolphins will also come to the defence of each other in fighting off an attacker or threat , and they are ready to extend these forms of rescue to humans in distress . |
| 24 | Iran pledge : Iran 's armed forces say they are ready to help Bosnian Muslims in their war with Serb forces opposed to Bosnian independence . |
| 25 | Of course some of those who are really willing to take 36s. rather than leave the market without selling , will not show at once that they are ready to accept that price . |
| 26 | They are prone to accumulate more nutrient than is good for them ; and , of course , they tend also to accumulate toxins . |
| 27 | They are unlikely to predict successful job performance and research suggests interviewers ' performance is not helped significantly by training . |
| 28 | They are unlikely to welcome other rail operators creaming off their business . |
| 29 | Answer guide : In this case it would seem that for the cars they should be depreciated over four years as they are unlikely to do 60,000 miles . |
| 30 | Their resale potential is , however , undermined by their standardized production , and , although they will probably hold their value better than most Indian , Chinese , Pakistani or Balkan items , they are unlikely to develop high investment potential over the longer term . |