Example sentences of "they [be] [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those firms that take on their payroll the early leavers will again either gain a subsidy via a reduction of their training levy , or , if they are already claiming the maximum rebate , the payment of a grant from the training board . |
| 2 | They are also denied the statutory right to bring their dependants or claim supplementary benefits . |
| 3 | They are jointly overcoming the key problem in voice recognition : the great complexity of the spoken language . |
| 4 | When men show love and compassion they are surely showing the hidden and lasting beauty . |
| 5 | With one hand people are placing children while on the other hand they are still encouraging the natural parents to think there 's some chance of having them back ! |
| 6 | They are still occupying the lower status jobs , and bringing up a family has often meant interruptions to education or professional training . |
| 7 | This happens annually in the February — March period , when they are actively seeking the ideal spot . |
| 8 | ‘ The constitutional issue is at the top of Scots ’ minds because they are now making the direct link between Scotland 's lack of democracy and the theft of our water , the state of the economy and the injustice of Tory plans to tax heating and freeze the poor . ’ |
| 9 | Moreover , instead of these cash limits being set one year ahead they are now to cover the whole planning period ; that is , three years ahead . |
| 10 | For more than a year , the Poles have been engaged in a brave , almost quixotic attempt to transform a moribund command economy into a lively free market , and they are now suffering the growing pains of a capitalism devoid of capital . |
| 11 | One is pictured as mum exchanges glances with her llama neighbour and Geoff Edwards , who is helping to look after them , said : ‘ They are really delighting the young visitors jumping about in the unusually warm and sunny weather . ’ |
| 12 | When people lament the gap between the imaginative , liberal atmosphere of our primary schools , ad the constraints of our secondary schools , they are really lamenting the malign force of public examinations . |
| 13 | They are merely reproducing the same wistfulness and dreamlike melodies of their first album . |
| 14 | The fact that the gung-ho tabloids have wrapped themselves in the Union Jack does not mean that they are accurately reflecting the public mood . |
| 15 | They 're just mastering the basic skills of walking and talking , which open up a whole new world for them . |
| 16 | Er sometimes I always laugh I say it 's funny when erm it 's about twenty degrees outside they 're still wearing the same dress and when it 's minus fifteen or ten they 're still wearing the same dress . |
| 17 | Er sometimes I always laugh I say it 's funny when erm it 's about twenty degrees outside they 're still wearing the same dress and when it 's minus fifteen or ten they 're still wearing the same dress . |
| 18 | No , they 're still fighting the good fight . |
| 19 | What I find horrible is that there are so many organisations or or places all over Great Britain , they 're all doing the same sort of tests ! |
| 20 | They 're always fighting the previous war . |
| 21 | They were already planning the Serbian revolt , which broke out in 1804 . |
| 22 | They were here to divert the Old Man from thoughts of death , not to rub his nose in them . |
| 23 | Even so , Artemis had no time to relax or to shout at whoever it was still charging up beside her to slow down because the hill was beginning to flatten out into the dip and they were fast approaching the big open ditch . |
| 24 | But they were probably saying the same thing at the end of the 1960s after the Socialist Party of the day , the Federation de la Gauche Democrate et Socialiste , had won a mere 16.5 per cent of the vote in the 1968 general election and Gaston Deferre , their candidate in the following year 's presidential election had polled just 5 per cent . |
| 25 | In this they were simply reflecting the typical disinterest of historians . |
| 26 | They were both dressed the same , probably for the same reason , and yet it did n't seem to make any difference because all the action was in the eyes . |
| 27 | When , during the first years of their friendship , at Braque 's suggestion he and Picasso stopped signing their works they were automatically emphasizing the autonomous existence of their creations . |
| 28 | Not many redwoods , or sequoias , exceeded 3000 years but they were generally considered the oldest living matter until the development of the Swedish increment borer enabled dendrologists ( people who study the natural history of trees ) to age a tree without felling it . |
| 29 | Food was a joy to them , and they had no sooner finished one meal than they were enthusiastically discussing the next . |
| 30 | Later that year we met other Soviet researchers and found that they were also studying the stabilising effect of longitudinal fields on pinches . |