Example sentences of "they [verb] be [adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either they had been obliged to renew such contracts , perhaps several times , and had thus come under pressure to give the workers concerned permanent status , or they had found themselves carrying workers whose fixed-term contracts had not yet expired , despite the fact that they were no longer needed . |
| 2 | If they had been able to take more time over preparation of their findings and reasons the difficulties this court has faced on this appeal might not have arisen . |
| 3 | In some cases , particularly the non.engineering companies , the extent to which they had been able to shape these plans as opposed merely to sanction them was very limited indeed . |
| 4 | Freud came to see , later , that human beings are not predisposed to admit that they are organisms which die and are destructive any more than they had been prepared to admit that young children , under five years of age , were sexual . |
| 5 | Most of those seasons have involved a struggle against relegation and , while they have been lucky to survive some , this team are good enough to stay up . |
| 6 | As usual , they have been willing to sub-contract these important decisions to the nuclear industry and to stand back , like Pontius Pilate , and say , ’ This has nothing to do with us . ’ |