Example sentences of "they [verb] be [verb] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As reported , the authors found ‘ disturbing ’ the fact that half of the sample CID investigations they examined were lacking in some details or were actually unsatisfactory ’ . |
| 2 | Because they are designed to justify certain propositions , the questions they ask are formulated in such a way as to prompt the desired answers . |
| 3 | Most shops are prepared for your to do this with expensive boots , but do n't expect them to be exchanged if they 've been marked in any way or worn outside ! |
| 4 | Could she come to terms with the knowledge that they had been conceived in that dreadful place ? |
| 5 | Is there anything you can tell me about the two young women who died after they had been working in this house , Theresa Nolan and Diana Travers ? ’ |
| 6 | They have been seen in many countries of Europe and in America . |
| 7 | They have been replaced in many areas by an urban , overwhelmingly middle-class population which has been attracted by a combination of cheap housing ( until the late 1960s ) and by an idealized view of rural life which their ownership of a car has at last allowed them to indulge . |
| 8 | In view of developments it might be argued that they have been justified in this view . |
| 9 | Yet if they have been done in this way it means they have not been done ! |
| 10 | But they have been left in little doubt that Washington would be displeased if they decided to help Vietnam 's programme to grow its forests anew . |
| 11 | As with all denizens of Fairyland , the glastyn may be perverse as well as benign by turn , and reports have been noted of those who have run amok , raping women and destroying crops if they have been slighted in any way . |
| 12 | It can be seen that comparisons between the sub-groups are made much easier if they have been sampled in this way ; there is no problem of having to cope with a preponderance of one group and a dearth of another if stratification has taken place beforehand . |
| 13 | The real test is whether they have been used in all the cases where there has been flagrant abuse , and I have reason to believe that the traffic commissioners are doing their job competently in that connection . |
| 14 | They have been pioneered in this country , the United States and Australia over the last few years mainly by individual schools and by some local education authorities . |
| 15 | Many techniques for stress reduction can be appropriated by the same injunctions to succeed that got you stressed in the first place , and should be discontinued if you spot that they have been subverted in this way ( unless your goal has also changed along the way from stress reduction to record-breaking ) . |
| 16 | You will see that almost without exception they have been included in this final document . |