Example sentences of "they be [adv] [verb] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They are both finding prison life tough and would have cracked by now if they were guilty . ’ |
| 2 | These front line workers , like the rest of us , have certain taken-for-granted ideas about ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ parenting , and they are also given expert knowledge that tells them some of the factors to which child abuse is positively related . |
| 3 | When they are not speaking London English , they may choose to " talk black " or " chat Patois " : but this " black " variety , as I shall show below , is focused on Jamaican Creole in particular . |
| 4 | Deliveries of Cuban sugar , which arrives mainly in the first half of the year , load the Soviet sugar factories ' productive capacities in the period when they are not processing sugar beet ( Kolodov : 1984 , p. 16 ) . |
| 5 | Sometimes students get anxious about this , and believe they are not making audience contact early enough ; but if you think about it , the reasoning is clear . |
| 6 | Indonesia has large industries , recently developed in the country , and are exporting large quantities to saw mills , whereas a few years ago they were exporting to lots , they are now exporting saw wood and ply wood . |
| 7 | They are apparently called Chesapeake Bay Retrievers although |
| 8 | They , they are actually starting nursery school on the fifth of May . |
| 9 | over there they 're just doing microwave cooking you know . |
| 10 | In fact , when they raise an issue , it 's either for a , a personal ego trip , or they 're just paying lip service . |
| 11 | So they 're not coming stone cold . |
| 12 | Ultimately they 're still keeping land reform as a long term objective cos that 's |
| 13 | Whatever people might think about DHSS money , what it has meant in practice is that the global sum of money to help provide for the needs of people with dementia or other long-term needs is much greater than it would have been if they were not attracting DHSS supplementation . |
| 14 | and peasant antagonism ought to have been greatest and therefore you on the face of it it seems surprising does n't it that land reforms did n't take place immediately , or they were n't attempting land reform to take place immediately . |
| 15 | They were also organising business planning courses for their doctors and dentists . |
| 16 | Eventually the majority of Cook 's excursionists were women ; they climbed the Alps , negotiated glaciers , scrambled up the Pyramids and crossed deserts , dressed always as if they were about to take afternoon tea with the vicar . |
| 17 | ‘ When they realised that one was missing the others stopped as they were about to leave Hoxa Sound and waited for it to catch up , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Maybe they were still eating cabinet pudding in those days . |