Example sentences of "[coord] they [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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1 | And they 've been such good parents to me . ’ |
2 | they 've had they 've been out two days on bikes , borrowed John 's children 's bikes and bikes and they 've been all round |
3 | But they had been few in number . |
4 | Something on the 9221s — the 9730 successors , is also likely , but they have been such poor sellers that there is little interest . |
5 | In recent years the Employment Department and the Department of Trade and Industry have been responsible for appropriate interventions but they have been more of a fire fighting nature than a sustained development of policy and role — which in any case , has not been the way government departments have tended to behave since they are organised to implement government policy in the immediate rather than long term . |
6 | You may have made progress , you may have known times of happiness and fulfilment , but they have been few and far between . |