Example sentences of "they [verb] be [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer they devised is called Compact Disc Interactive ( CD-I ) . |
| 2 | The students say they dropped legal action after they 'd been promised full consultation , as the Visitor of Somerville College , Lord Roy Jenkins had insisted last year . |
| 3 | The students say they dropped legal action after they 'd been promised full consultation , as the Visitor of Somerville College , Lord Roy Jenkins had insisted last year . |
| 4 | Analysis of samples collected from puddles on Hyde Heath by Friends of the Earth found high levels of ammonia , nitrogen and chloride , pollution which they claim is damaging boggy areas and endangering resident species . |
| 5 | Whaling communities in the Faroe Islands have approached Greenpeace for help over growing marine pollution , which they claim is making locally-killed pilot whales inedible . |
| 6 | I here were fans suspended from the ceilings in each of the rooms but in Owen 's view all they did was to move hot air from one place to another and he very rarely switched his on . |
| 7 | So what they did was introduce statistical techniques whereby not every bullet was inspected , a sample was inspected and great conclusions were drawn from very careful examination of a small number of , of items . |
| 8 | They 've been using enormous amounts of their own resources and expertise , to make life easier for , for the people who are going through their country . |
| 9 | And yet they 've been using enormous amounts of their own resources , both finance and , and manpower resources and expertise to make life easier for , for the people who are going through their country . |
| 10 | I I appreciate that point Mr , but as they arrived separately they 've been given different numbers er a as simply er a matter of administrative convenience . |
| 11 | In China they 've been eating mouldering cabbage for aeons and it gives them cancer of the oesophagus . |
| 12 | And quite apart from the general interest they 've been fetching high prices . |
| 13 | They say they 've been promised full consultation with the college 's governing body before a final decisionis made — and so far that has n't happened . |
| 14 | There is n't er er there is no , people have gone because they 've been doing other things other than er . |
| 15 | Hence my association with Flip , because they 've been doing second-hand clothes for 20 or 30 years . |
| 16 | People have paid deposits of $500 … they 've been paying weekly payments of $125 so it could be quite considerable but it could run to thousands of pounds |
| 17 | The Prussian banks found that they had been lending increasing amounts to the Junkers to maintain a lifestyle rather than to finance the modernisation of facilities and improve agricultural methods . |
| 18 | There could hardly be a more serious accusation than these particular killings and they had been given renewed publicity by the secretary of state 's broadcast of only four weeks earlier . |
| 19 | He said that even though they had been given advance warning of Sam 's health problems during a scan three months before he was born , nothing prepared them for the shock . |
| 20 | They had been given separate rooms , of course , but liked to gas late into the night , and dress together , and compare clothes and hair and notes . |
| 21 | They had been given special permission to land there , only a short distance from the state fairgrounds at Del Mar , where the 13th final will be held this weekend . |
| 22 | Two groups of patients were studied : one who had had coronary angiography because they had been given thrombolytic therapy for coronary disease , and another who had had coronary angiography due to chronic stable angina ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 23 | Always the money that had not arrived , always the arrears of pay causing disaffection , and even if they had been sent substantial tallies on regional treasuries or port taxation officers , still the endless complaint that the money simply was not there to meet the bills . |
| 24 | They acknowledged only that they had been playing loud music and having innocent fun . |
| 25 | " They had been heaping dried brackens and whins , with peats here and there among the pelf , in a line along the trench ; and one struck a light with his flint and fired the pile . |
| 26 | They had been having sexual intercourse about three times a day , every day , for the last six weeks , but Maisie still maintained that Robert was faking it . |
| 27 | Yes sir he told me that er would know because they ha had been together in prison and that he also had information that they had been planning armed robberies together . |
| 28 | 50,000 children are admitted into hospital each year because they have been drinking harmful products . |
| 29 | Directors have sometimes been called trustees , or commercial trustees , sometimes they have been called managing partners ; it does not matter much what you call them as long as you understand what their true position is , which is really that they are commercial men managing a trading concern for the benefit of themselves and all the other shareholders … they are bound to use fair and reasonable diligence in the management of the company 's affairs and to act honestly . |
| 30 | They have been called magic bullets because of their use in the treatment of cancer . |