Example sentences of "they [vb base] be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most startling illustration of how things can stay the same while they change is found in one of Stein-am-Rhein 's many excellent restaurants . |
| 2 | And the adaptations they make are made on several different levels erm they might become more alike in their language , in their pronunciation , their rate of speech , their pause or utterance length and their vocal intensities . ? |
| 3 | The organisers hope their movement , which they say is supported by many Muslim organisations , will persuade the Government to order an inquiry into the Rushdie affair . |
| 4 | They party was conducted by mounted YUGOSLAV troops . |
| 5 | Because they are designed to justify certain propositions , the questions they ask are formulated in such a way as to prompt the desired answers . |
| 6 | Any feature where they differ is chosen from one of them at random . |
| 7 | Even if you had a single gene which is terribly important , erm because human beings are complex everything they do is affected by large numbers of genes a number of examples that contradict that . |
| 8 | Does it make them any weaker because they 've been adopted by young women who dislike the feminist label or by the ‘ I 'm not a feminist but ’ brigade ? |
| 9 | They 've been developed after considerable consumer research and will evaluate new products and new service ideas which if found acceptable will be taken up by the M F I chain . |
| 10 | They will also completely cover up imperfections , have good sound and heat insulation properties and , if they 've been treated with protective spray , will last for years and years — long after paint has become chipped and discoloured , and paper faded . |
| 11 | He , too , married a girl of his own milieu ; they 've been separated for many years . |
| 12 | Allow your tiles to acclimatise at room temperature for at least 24 hours before laying — especially if they 've been stored in cold conditions |
| 13 | they 've been done for many years |
| 14 | Duty-free allowances will be phased out eventually , but they 've been reprieved until 1999 . |
| 15 | They 'd be secondhand shoes because they 've been worn for three days . |
| 16 | They 've been trained from early age have n't they ? |
| 17 | He had an impulse to say , ‘ This is the music of 1988 ; these are our heroes ; that building on the headland is our architecture and I dare not stop my car to help children home because they 've been taught with good reason that a strange man might abduct and rape them . ’ |
| 18 | They 've been formed from separate corps looking after Transport , Ordnance , Supplies , Catering and Military Mail . |
| 19 | Yes there 's been many cases where lesbian and gay couples have left a gay bar , have given each other a goodnight kiss at a bus stop or at a tube station or in the street and they 've been arrested under public decency laws and dragged through the courts and fined up to £200 . |
| 20 | Prisoners at Gloucester apparently became bored translating school textbooks — now they 've been switched to teenage adventure stories — to the delight of the pupils . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They 've been used like sectional housing . |
| 23 | 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 ! |
| 24 | Well people have rung into this programme saying that they 've been put off visiting graves because this man is there . |
| 25 | The Hunt Saboteurs have admitted they 've been infiltrated by neo-Nazi groups . |
| 26 | They 've been described by some as the ugliest dogs in the world . |
| 27 | The witnesses told the court since going to the police they 've been intimidated by certain people on the estate . |
| 28 | The witnesses told the court since going to the police they 've been intimidated by certain people on the estate . |
| 29 | Some of them have not been found guilty , and albeit they have been charged with horrendous crimes they are still innocent people and it does n't matter even if they are not innocent people , the Government still has a responsibility to life and limb and really I ca n't see any case at all for not storming . |
| 30 | After all , people have always wanted to do violence to those who stood in their way when they were attempting to commit robberies ; but they have been bound by certain conventions of which they were unaware . |