Example sentences of "they [be] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Farm workers also gain intrinsic satisfaction from working with living and growing plants and animals and they share a sense of achievement when they are finally brought to maturity , the sequential nature of production allowing workers to be involved in all of the stages through to completion . |
| 2 | Their advantages are : they are generally made to measure , so awkward sizes are n't a problem ; they need minimal maintenance ; and they usually have integral weatherstripping . |
| 3 | Twenty-o twenty-two and a hundred and twenty-five I do n't propose to speak to because er they are closely related to Government amendments , but I shall talk about it in another respect , but er seventeen and eighteen are in the theme of what so many Noble Lords have said , including the Noble Lord , Lord , and that is the importance of the local people er being er on these er thes th these these new police authorities and I seek to remove er the five appointed or any appointed people er by the Secretary of State . |
| 4 | Such hydration expansion commonly occurs in response to changes in relative humidity which , since they are closely related to temperature , may be diumal . |
| 5 | They are however counted to wood for righteousness : as long as one can hear a timber structure one is very unlikely to break it . |
| 6 | The obvious difficulty with behaviouristic accounts of mental states is that , although in a way they do provide what was wanted , i.e. an account of mental states in which they are non-contingently related to behaviour , still they appear to ignore everything that is characteristically mental . |
| 7 | Last week the UK Department of Health confirmed its earlier recommendations that the risk of cot death is reduced if infants are laid to sleep on their backs , if they are not exposed to cigarette smoke before or after birth , and if they are not overwrapped or overheated , especially when feverish or unwell . |
| 8 | Simple denial — We see the tramps and drop-outs and may wrongly assume that they are necessarily addicted to alcohol or drugs . |
| 9 | Whilst executive summaries can be useful , they create problems when they are virtually extended to book-length . |
| 10 | Speaking only from a base financial standpoint , there is probably no book of which people hold higher hopes than the Bible , and none where they are more doomed to disappointment . |
| 11 | When women are turned away , they are usually referred to homelessness organisations or other groups . |
| 12 | They are usually made to measure , so matching awkward sizes is easy . |
| 13 | They are usually made to measure , so matching awkward sizes is easy . |
| 14 | Yeah well they 're not made to work are they |
| 15 | so they 're probably trying to muscle into the er that niche you see , but er brown bottle you find the critics ? |
| 16 | They 're really going to town on these pavements are n't they ? |
| 17 | They may have sacked the Chancellor but they 're still committed to capitalism and economic policy which is diametrically opposed to any form of such a justice . |
| 18 | Although members of the community dressed alike , the women in black robes , they were not bound to celibacy . |
| 19 | The three boys set out , but they walked so slowly that Oliver thought they were not going to work at all . |
| 20 | They knew now that it was on these and on nothing else that their lives depended , and they were not going to waste anything they possessed between them . |
| 21 | In other words , er they were n't trying to sort of scrape it together to actually repay your , repay your twelve thousand pound wh loan at the end of twenty years . |
| 22 | Aha I thought they were n't going to work for him Did he get the job at |
| 23 | At 9 p.m. the women sat down in the common room and said they were n't going to bed until the heating was fixed . |
| 24 | Whilst Rowe and Lambert took exception to the then prevailing view that children should , and more important could , be returned to their own families , they were strongly committed to family care as the main form of substitute care for those children who could not return home . |
| 25 | When they were eventually brought to trial , the most revealing thing that came out was that thousands of women were seeking , by a variety of means , to terminate their pregnancies . |
| 26 | It would seem that in Capadocea they were even converted to Christianity for , in that region , St Christopher is often depicted with a dog 's head . |
| 27 | I thought they were just going to X-ray me back , but they X-rayed everything . |
| 28 | The record high interest rates were attractive to holders of sterling even though they were also damaging to business . |
| 29 | They were ideally suited to town life before the spread of hygienic knowledge , readily distributed by polluted rivers , reservoirs , and wells . |
| 30 | By degrees the British came to dominate this trade , partly because they were so committed to sugar that they were bound to make large purchases of slaves on their own account , partly because their increasingly dominant position at sea meant that they could take the place of the Dutch as general suppliers of slaves for planters in other European colonies who wanted to buy them . |