Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv] be [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Richard Allan , establishment director , said : ‘ They 've not been allowed any alcohol . |
| 2 | They 've not been allowed any breakfast . ’ |
| 3 | They have n't been fighting all these years to get rid of communism to see it re-emerge again so you , the confusion continues , as it is in Russia , and then you insinuate the idea that , with the breakdown of social order and so on , you must have a strong man , you must have strong arms and that 's where your Hitlers and your Mussolinis and all these people come through in that little vacuum in between of disorder . |
| 4 | This is no mean task , especially if they have not been doing any recruitment for the past few months . |
| 5 | They have apparently been doing this for some time . |
| 6 | The authority for doing things this way lies in the fact that they have always been done this way and so questioning is not encouraged . |