Example sentences of "[noun] they [verb] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says they 're in soft skinnned vehicles and any shooting they encounter is dangerous but so far there 've been no injuries . |
| 2 | As a result they have been weak in the diplomatic arena . |
| 3 | By constantly shuffling alliances with smaller satellite parties they have been able to prevent the left from taking office . |
| 4 | They argue that support acted as an antecedent protective factor , but as their data was not longitudinal , the relationships they found are open to alternative explanations . |
| 5 | Even in their heyday they had been fluid entities which could be dormant in specific areas for years at a time , but the decline at the turn of the century was much more widespread than earlier fluctuations . |
| 6 | If the internal environments they create are acceptable , their subtle coercion may pass unheeded . |
| 7 | The havoc they wreaked was total . |
| 8 | ‘ All officers are paying attention to this as a matter of priority and divisional commanders are carrying out their own projects in the areas they know are vulnerable . ’ |
| 9 | Of course , the decision about where the funds are and what areas they cover is artificial . |
| 10 | Others will be the product of guesswork because the terrain they cover is unknown , and being unknown will contain risks . |
| 11 | Unlike other countries in Europe , teachers ' pay and status in Britain is not high and the support and assistance they receive is minimal compared to counterparts in Germany and France . |
| 12 | The fears that the work could escalate into ‘ genetic engineering ’ , by which all but completely healthy babies would be terminated and parents could virtually plan the child they want are futuristic but increasingly real . |
| 13 | A common criticism of academic journals in education is that the articles they contain are remote from the concerns of classroom teachers . |
| 14 | We shall have more to say about these functions in later chapters , but will meanwhile point out that these functions and the needs they serve are interrelated : success in interpersonal communication depends in part on success in transmitting a message , which in turn depends in part on success in terms of text production . |
| 15 | Of course the question in the EPQ does not refer solely to driving and the population they sampled are unlikely to be driving particularly regularly . |
| 16 | In the days when the great Bugis kingdoms had ruled the seas all the way to the Spice Islands they had been unrelenting in their determination to conquer Bouton . |
| 17 | He was diving with his wife Deborah they had been married 15 days off the resort town of Byron Bay , 400 miles north of Sydney . |
| 18 | Politicians do this all the time , turning any given question into a cue for making the point they think is important and never mind what their questioner wants to hear . |
| 19 | The Smiths believe that the sentiments they express are unique and that the music is good enough to cause a general improvement by its sheer excellence . |
| 20 | The speeches of Prince Philip on the preservation of wildlife , of Prince Charles on modern architecture or inner city deprivation , gain entry to the newspapers and television news bulletins automatically , although the sentiments they express are unexceptional , the ideas unoriginal and their delivery undramatic . |
| 21 | They say land values are going to soar and are incensed at Costner 's demand that local laws be changed to raise the maximum gambling stake from £3 to £60 — a move they feel is certain to attract crime . |
| 22 | What we can do by way of conclusion , however , is to point out once more the strengths and weaknesses of these various approaches in terms of whether the hypothesis and explanations they employ are rigorous or not . |
| 23 | Some of the plants they drew were diseased ; it is always a matter of difficulty to know which features of a plant or animal are individual peculiarities and which are specific characters . |
| 24 | The response from the public in places they visited was generous and heartwarming . |
| 25 | What safety they offered was debatable , but if worst came to worst he would throw himself beneath a car , and deny the voiders the entertainment of his slow demise . |
| 26 | During the first few days of the Blitz I had to go to Kings Cross and there I saw whole streams of weary and frightened East Enders pouring through the station , intent only on getting away from the bombing with what bits and pieces of their belongings they had been able to salvage ; with their small children crying and bewildered , and family pets bundled up in rugs or protesting loudly in makeshift cardboard boxes . |
| 27 | PEUGEOT has launched a new parts initiative they believe is unique among car manufacturers . |
| 28 | In the two years they 've been married they have only had one day together . |
| 29 | In all the years they had been married , she could not remember quite such serious conflict . |
| 30 | It is true that many of the experiments in this area were grossly inadequate in method : they failed to ensure that the individuals they studied were similar , apart from the single factor being scrutinized ; they relied unduly on mothers ' memories for information about early events ; their various findings could not be compared because of disagreement about what should be counted as ‘ early weaning ’ or ‘ harsh training ’ , and so on . |