Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [verb] [adv] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The laws are kept because of our faith ; it is possible to see why they have even been called ‘ the secret of our survival ’ . |
| 2 | It is easy to see why they might need reassuring . |
| 3 | Annabelle 's family have owned their furniture shop for over 100 years and it is easy to see why they are a success if you have had the privilege of actually working for them , as I have . |
| 4 | It is easy to see how they argue it — how else would they get a home and a car and some spending money ? |
| 5 | Since crinoids often occur together in large numbers ( 'gardens ' ) with their arms waving in the currents , it is easy to see how they came to acquire their botanical analogy . |
| 6 | While the key features of each — the limited liability company , the use of collective bargaining and the state provision of welfare — all have something of a Christian basis in terms of providing outlets for savings , strengthening the family , and correcting injustice and providing for those in need , nevertheless it is easy to see how they can become taken over by humanistic philosophy — so that they become unlimited freedom to create wealth , the use of collective power and the denial of individual merit and the state as the alternative for the family and private charity . |
| 7 | Teachers who were arrogant and distant fell into this category and it is easy to see how they offend against the central principle and are deemed contemptuous . |
| 8 | WHEN A CLUB as great as Cardiff fall on times as hard as they are now it is easy to understand why they ask New Zealand 's John Hart if he could take over as coaching director and why they have asked Australia 's Alec Evans the same question . |
| 9 | Since populism is the antithesis of everything they stand for , it is instructive to see how they have handled that most demotic of forces , television . |
| 10 | The Dutch plan envisages people living closer to their workplace and without that happening it is hard to see how they will be persuaded to leave their cars at home . |
| 11 | With Coventry having scored only nine goals since Mr Howe took charge it is obvious where their problem lies and it is hard to see how they can solve it . |
| 12 | Given that many rural schools do not even have properly equipped science laboratories , it is hard to see how they will be able to afford equipment for carpentry , metalwork and building . |
| 13 | It is hard to see how they benefit the child . |
| 14 | Both are as entitled as any other separating couple to find happiness , though it is hard to see how they will find it with a new partner while remaining married to each other . |
| 15 | It is hard to see how they could escape unscathed . |
| 16 | Them firemen knows when it 's alight do n't they Dave ? |
| 17 | It strikes me as a great idea , and it 's hard to see how they can lose when you consider that 2000AD magazine sells 300,000 copies a week . |
| 18 | It 's hard to see how they could ever get to know each other long enough for it to come to this . |
| 19 | It 's hard to know where they get to . |
| 20 | Because on the evidence before us it seems to me it 's hard to understand why they went that way . |
| 21 | When a parent is very resistant to changing their reactions to their children it is helpful to unearth why they feel so strongly and often this is because of childhood experience . |
| 22 | This distinction can be limpid if the artist is directly interviewed , and the interview is verbatim ; but there are problems of evidence with filming and tape recordings , as well as with interviews , since the viewer or reader is unlikely to know how they have been edited . |
| 23 | It is important to understand why people are favourably disposed towards a move , just as much as it is important to know why they are unhappy about going . |
| 24 | If you are replacing someone who is leaving the firm then it is essential to know why they are going . |
| 25 | It 's difficult to see how they will ever better it . |
| 26 | You ca n't , it 's difficult to believe why they do n't charge full whack . |
| 27 | The behaviour of some modern gliders during take-offs and landings is very different to most of the training gliders , and it is vital to understand why they are more prone to swinging . |
| 28 | Put it where it 's convenient do n't they ? |
| 29 | With many of our everyday experiences of natural events it is difficult to envisage how they could be other than they are . |
| 30 | It is difficult to see why they would be deterred any more than fined traffic-offenders are deterred ; they can calculate rationally the cost of future fines and build that into any contemplation of irregular and illegal behaviour . |