Example sentences of "they [verb] be [verb] to [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Well you see they 've been brainwashed to that sort of music so they 're bound to , bound to like it . |
2 | Well , we 'd like to think that er people , once they 've been introduced to these different sorts of drinks , and become a bit more aware about different sensible levels , would actually be interested in buying them in the future and trying them out themselves . |
3 | I could not understand why they had been banished to this dusty attic . |
4 | To those observers looking on it seemed hard to believe that the average IQ of the room 's inhabitants was 149 , and that they had more honours between them than a collection of top class civil servants — and to think that they had been reduced to such a pitiful state as this . |
5 | When he did not return for quite a while , she guessed they had been talking to each other about her . |
6 | Such terrors are more likely to affect foals and yearlings because they have been exposed to fewer objects and experiences . |
7 | If they have been fitted to these new Foxbats , then the aircraft would have a potential complement of 6 to 8 AAMs in place of the current 4 … on top of its two wing-mounted 23mm electric cannon . |
8 | In recent years several British ensembles have begun to draw upon an ‘ exotic ’ instrumentarium of this kind once again , but they have been marginalized to some degree . |
9 | ‘ I am disappointed for the crowd because generally they have been treated to some good football here and all our performance lacked was some goals . |
10 | To some extent they have been driven to this by brutal economics . |