Example sentences of "and they [be] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Milton Keynes police have set up an incident room and they 're appealing for any witnesses .
2 Milton Keynes police have set up an incident room and they 're appealing for any witnesses .
3 successful in doing these schemes and because resources on we are hard pressed , resources on the ground are thin then when people ring up with these schemes that we get it off the ground they meet this negative sort of answer when they ring in , that 's the only sort of er liaison with themselves and the police and they 're met with that , and their reaction then is down the pub tell their mates do n't ring in cos its a reaction , and that 's the trouble with us being , as it were too successful before , better to be less successful , but we 'd have more staff at the centre like Lincolnshire etc to actually get the difference from when somebody does the odd person does ring in they get a response to it
4 They like training that 's practical and they 're dealing with real problems .
5 That 's right , and , and the first act of the play is a rehearsal and it keeps stopping and the director keeps sort of straightening them out and they 're dealing with little problems , and when you 're actually rehearsing it you find yourself sort of repeating the play because it 's so ac Michael Frayn who wrote it has so accurately observed what happens er when you 're directing a play that er you find yourself re-enacting the play and , and suddenly find a discussion you 've just been having has part sounds as if it 's come out of the script .
6 I says , Well er we 're going about here , the two shunters are going about here and they 're vying with each other to see how much they can ignore me .
7 ‘ You 'll find the only people who complain are usually gentlemen with very little hair , ’ adds Barbara , herself a young-at-heart 57 , ‘ and they 're complaining about these young people with lots of hair !
8 have got this cottage and they 're moving into this cottage in the middle of the countryside .
9 They 're putting parts into used cars but there 's also been a slight upturn in the vehicle market and they 're benefitting from that as well
10 It 's laid out but the plants look healthy and they 're kept in healthy conditions .
11 Just as well really ; when they go into the diamond formation , the trade mark of the Red Arrows , their wings are only 10ft apart and they 're travelling at 400 mph .
12 because people are dissatisfied with the treatment and they 're paying for that treatment and they 're dissatisfied , so you always get complaints whether you pay or not
13 But then why would Mao in nineteen forty five say that how that they 'd made a major concession to land to the tiller but that this is a correct one and they 're going to , that land reform has to be taken in stages and they 're going to first of all reduce rent and , I mean er
14 Yeah the T V could do with a few big ones , alright okay body stopper , they want you to have a T V on and be tempted , depends on what , how it went , to ask them to turn it off but if you ca n't that would upon them then you 'll have to work with it because what you do n't want to be seeing is okay they are there , you 're here and they 're concentrating on this .
15 Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person
16 I B M , U K , which celebrates its fortieth anniversary this year , has some sixteen thousand employees based in some fifty two locations throughout the United Kingdom , and they 're working on all aspects of information technology , er , from software to silicon , from telecommunications to personal systems , and of course we form part of a very large company , I B M Corporation , which employs around three hundred and seventy thousand people across the world .
17 and then he 's , he 's going out and they 're coming like that direction and he 's looked round and he 's seen the soldier , doing it , he 's gone and this is how I did it and then he put his , like this and he stuck his hands up and as his done that he 's got shot through the body from the side , what 's
18 The Americans owe the company money and they 're waiting for that and also the , they sold one of the machines at the exhibition so , and they 've had some enquiries , so hopefully they 'll bring some work in .
19 They want access to Thailand 's 11 million smokers and they 're fighting with all the muscle available to them , according to Prakit Vateesatokit , of the Thai Anti-Smoking Campaign .
20 anyway , erm there will be tapes on the way and they 're consulting with other people too , so .
21 So , I had a look at the powers of the police authority and they 're restricted to financial and administrative responsibilities and if I took that argument further , of course the Chief Constable has to take that into account .
22 And they 're grouped in threes .
23 There is a definite spark between Vronsky and Anna at their first meeting and they are affected by each other even if it is just subconsciously .
24 These two conceptions of the state provide a familiar antithesis in the history of political thought , and they are repeated in various forms , often tacitly conveyed , in modern political science .
25 The rods are situated mainly in the peripheral area of the retina and they are activated in lower levels of lighting .
26 At present special requests have to be submitted and justified if calls are to be made ; they are made in the presence of an officer and they are charged at far in excess of the ‘ normal ’ rate because of the need to ask the operator to ring back with the cost — for which a surcharge is made .
27 A surprisingly large number of private limited companies pay nominal audit fees , even when their turnover runs into millions and they are audited by one of the top 12 firms .
28 So those are the jobs that are audited and they are generated by these number of quests , of those ..
29 The current protocols on access to and inter-lending of theses in Britain were developed by SCONUL , and they are printed in each issue of Aslib 's Index to Theses .
30 Secondly are systems of complex disorder where there are large numbers of components and therefore of variables but only weak linkages between them , and they are handled by probabilistic methods of statistical mechanics .
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