Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] the [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe the Army should be building on the team they have here , not relocating to Glasgow . ’ |
| 2 | John Gillis has shown from a study of the London Foundling Hospital that higher servants , such as ladies ' maids , seem to have been particularly vulnerable which may be explained by the contradictions they experienced in attempting to combine customs of courtship and marriage appropriate to women of their class backgrounds with the standards of conduct expected by their employers . |
| 3 | ( Within each type , hierarchies may be distinguished by the elements they contain . ) |
| 4 | French farmers should be punished for the way they treated our sheep farmers . |
| 5 | If power is to be devolved to the people they must learn how to use power . |
| 6 | If this is so , how do societies come to be organised in the way they are ? |
| 7 | And after just a few sessions of treatment his parents were overjoyed to be told their son could be walking by the time they leave the Capital in April . |
| 8 | When you send items overseas , make sure that they will be accepted in the country they are going to by checking in the Royal Mail International Guide . |
| 9 | A pleasant , very nearly a respectable , young man , it seemed , which was far more than could be said for the fellow they had put up for Bradford in 1841 , an Irishman of the wilder variety who had served his apprenticeship to the political trade in such select establishments as Northallerton House of Correction and the castle jails of Lancaster and York . |
| 10 | The problem is that the same — different task and the labelling task are unlikely to be matched in the demands they make on the subjects . |
| 11 | The family are claiming they should be compensated for the income they lost as a result of Tony 's death . |
| 12 | The family are claiming they should be compensated for the income they lost as a result of Tony 's death . |
| 13 | The Ombudsman , Sir Anthony Barrowclough , is telling MPs that the report is being finalised , though an early draft is believed to recommend that not all the investors should be compensated for the losses they suffered when the investment group crashed 18 months ago . |
| 14 | Up in Lebanon , where so many of the 1948 Palestinian refugees are concentrated , there is sometimes precious little detail to be had about the land they once owned . |
| 15 | Please can you tell me if this is the correct procedure for purchasing anemones and corals , or should they be bought with the rock they are attached to ? |
| 16 | On the other hand , there are philistines who apparently believe that all new ideas , no matter how subtle , can be conveyed in the terms they happened to have picked up at their mother 's knee , and reject any attempt to expand the language into areas beyond the nursery . |
| 17 | Children who do put their claims in writing are then told that what they have written will be shown to the teacher they are accusing . |
| 18 | The degree of ease with which sexuality was handled by the couple 's parents will be reflected in the way they handle the sexuality of their own children . |
| 19 | Er , Chairman the , the only advice that I can give Dr on that point is to say that the county council is not letting them down er the funding for major road schemes is provided by central government and we make a contribution towards it but if central government do not give us permission to go ahead with the race road scheme in terms of a grant , then in fact it will not go ahead and in that situation they may be let down , that is their judgement and that should be reflected in the way they vote at parliamentary elections . |
| 20 | Individuals and other creatures would be recognised by the sounds they made , or by the echoes they returned from the sounds you made . |
| 21 | For much of the Bloc , then , the solution may be to opt for the devil they know . |
| 22 | Most castles , it is true , were to be reduced to the state they were in fifteen days before the outbreak of war ; but others were to be razed to the ground . |
| 23 | Work on knowledge about language should involve discussion of matters such as sexist language ; styles of interaction in social groups ( see below ) ; how hidden messages about social groups ( such as teenagers or older people ) which are conveyed by advertising etc. can be decoded for the values they contain and for the differences between what is said and what is implied . |
| 24 | Where the tutorial focuses on current productions , I have found that students will work hard on their performances and be open about their work and any problems they may be having with the characters they are playing . |
| 25 | Yeah , but they 're not , the whole idea is that they 're not , they do n't wan na ask , they 're not prepared to ask it 's not right It should be provided by the school they 've been against that whole thing . |
| 26 | In any field of employment a successful application depends to some degree on the applicant 's being seen to say and do what is expected during the selection process , and to this extent conventional selection methods can always be faulted for the way they may presume that words uttered on a form or in an interview are reliable indicators of future performance . |
| 27 | The most likely answer is to be found in the habitats they frequent . |
| 28 | Such changing adviser practices seem to have had an impact upon arts advisers which can still be observed in the tension they feel between a commitment to the professional development of the general class teacher and the supervision of centralized performance activities ( Tweddell , 1988 ) . |
| 29 | Their work , patterns of social contacts and service use will all tend to be governed by the distance they can walk or the availability of convenient public transport . |
| 30 | One of the main elements which matters to customers is that stock should be available to them when they order it , that it should be delivered at the time they request it and that it should be assembled correctly . |