Example sentences of "[vb base] they [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moving from gardening to a musical metaphor , the poetic , sensuous qualities of her paintings suggest they could be experienced , like percussion instruments , through vibrations on the skin or in the bones . |
| 2 | Er the remainder of the regional representatives are in the agenda and I suggest they can be seen there and not repeated here and if I may then go on Ma'am , Council asked that we would in fact announce the results of the windsurfing committee election at the A G M and again in alphabetical order a Mr , Mr , Mr , Mr , Mr and Miss Bill North West Region . |
| 3 | The councils say they 'll be forced to cut services . |
| 4 | Passengers say they 'll be stranded in their homes , but that they do n't blame the drivers . |
| 5 | They 're ductile malleable do n't need the proper words you just say they can be pulled out . |
| 6 | The government 's already got rid of a minimum wage in industry , but farmworkers say they must be treated as a special case . |
| 7 | Squatters say they could be forced to sleep on the streets by new Government measures aimed at speeding up their eviction . |
| 8 | The officers blame the private catering company for the standard of food and say they should be sacked . |
| 9 | This is presumably what the police are referring to when they say they should be left to deal with problems in the force themselves . |
| 10 | The travellers say they should be allowed to lead a nomadic life . |
| 11 | you see , the fact they say they should be allowed to sell |
| 12 | carried out subjects were forewarned which match they would be required to make . |
| 13 | I imagine they 'll be woken at Easter by their hormones and by the sound of the Mr Whippy ice cream vans in the street . |
| 14 | They were not the sort you could put out in a black bin bag and hope they would be gone in the morning . |
| 15 | We are pleased offer our detailed views below and hope they will be taken into account before the Government finalises its procedures for the implementation of the EC Directive . |
| 16 | Hard-won working conditions and employment protection are now routinely jettisoned by many cowboy operators , secure in the knowledge that if workers complain they can be shown the door , outside which is a four-deep queue of would-be replacements willing to thole all manner of demands provided there is the prospect of regular work at whatever depressed rates . |
| 17 | The assumption that they are not neglected , and that cultural values ensure they will be cared for adequately , has been challenged by Norman . |
| 18 | But now , a few litres of Finish 'Em would be put to the service of a more crucial domestic task , the elimination of Mrs Farr . |
| 19 | I know they can be affected by wind and frost and it turns the leaves brown and kills off the buds , but why is only one affected ? |
| 20 | ( 1981 ) find that women 's explanations of their success are more modest when they know they will be made public , and when a liked other has failed . |
| 21 | Children who do this are making a statement about not needing comfort from adults , while at another level needing them desperately and choosing a place where they know they will be forced out . |
| 22 | which one identifies , there 's a kind of feeling erm you know , we 're , we 're the members and there 's something special about us and er at the best we 're sorry for the non-members , we 'd like to have more of them and so we might proselytize and preach the gospel , you know you know throw away your idioms , become or in the worst possible way we might be an exclusive group and say we are , we are erm special , we are we , we know the truth and everybody else is infidels and you know they should be killed or driven out or or in some ways discriminated against because they 're wrong and we 're right . |
| 23 | ‘ Estelle 's a serious chatterer , ’ he said , ‘ so I reckon they 'll be gone for at least two hours . ’ |
| 24 | They believe they may be stolen to order for someone who is renovating them for resale . |
| 25 | At least 40 schools opted out because they were threatened with closure , and most believe they would be shown little mercy . |
| 26 | I believe they will be divorced in the spring of 1994 . |
| 27 | Dr Michael Massey , who has a spiritual healing clinic at his practice in Bromley , south London , said : ‘ Every practitioner , whether a conventional GP or witch doctor , will say 50 per cent of people get better because they believe they will be cured . |
| 28 | Although I have serious reservations about the methodology of most of these studies ( in that they are far too pessimistic about the ability of the business community to respond to changing circumstances following changing relative prices ) and although some of the shortages which appear are due not so much to the limits of nature as the intervention and regulation of governments , nevertheless they raise sufficiently serious doubts about such things as the effects of carbon dioxide and the present lack of adequate recycling that I believe they must be taken seriously . |
| 29 | Their methods , assessing the value to science of published papers , have met great hostility from several of Britain 's leading astronomers , who believe they should be judged by conventional ‘ peer group ’ methods . |
| 30 | But we are aware that many ex-shipyard workers are engaged in some very routine work , and that many of them feel they could be made redundant at any moment . |