Example sentences of "they [be] [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the numbers of frail old people grow , in both absolute and proportional terms ( and they far exceed any other vulnerable groups ) , those who work with and for them are bound to experience this dilemma more acutely , which may be summarised as ‘ just how much are we supposed to do to support and protect such old vulnerable people ? ’ . |
| 2 | All forty two of them are threatening to leave local authority control and be directly financed from Westminster because they say they have n't got the money to do their jobs . |
| 3 | All forty two of them are threatening to leave local authority control and be directly financed from Westminster because they say they have n't got the money to do their jobs . |
| 4 | Lee , who left the family home in Skelton two years ago , came in from the cold to highlight the plight of the young homeless : the Rural Development Commission says more than 14,000 people in country areas are without a home 12pc of the national total and many of them are forced to leave rural areas altogether . |
| 5 | In support of this view , a number of studies have indicated that language-impaired children make significant improvements if the adults around them are induced to make systematic changes in certain aspects of their language ( Howlin 1984 ; McLean and Snyder 1978 ) . |
| 6 | Had they been set free any nearer they would almost certainly have found their way back for a free meal of milk and green bananas at the orang-utans ' tea party . |
| 7 | In fact , Albany and Schwartz tell us , the Davy lamp enabled the managers of the mines to extend operations into seams with dangerous atmospheres , so when accidents did occur , the chances of being killed were far higher , This example sets the tone of the remainder of the book , which discusses more topical issues in science and how they are manipulated to serve one vested interest or another . |
| 8 | They are choosing to do this because they have learned that without it they can not sustain their good intentions . |
| 9 | They are trained to do this and to be aware that they carry personal legal responsibility for their actions . |
| 10 | A similar focus on the war 's effect in shattering class barriers is present in In Which We Serve ( 1942 ) , where the trigger to unity is a torpedoed destroyer rather than a crashed plane , The Gentle Sex ( 1943 ) , which follows a group of women as they are trained to become competent fighters , and Millions Like Us ( 1943 ) , which brings together a mixed group of girls in an aircraft engineering factory . |
| 11 | I say once again because they are getting getting used to the sight of G939 BKV . |
| 12 | They are intended to complement one another and provide an element of variety for the note-maker . |
| 13 | Where objects are deliberately unique it may be that they are intended to signify some generic concept of uniqueness , such as in art ; the object is then both an individual form and an example of a larger category to which it must be related . |
| 14 | We have some that are very specific , in the sense that they are intended to provide certain particular skills or techniques . |
| 15 | Directors have sometimes been called trustees , or commercial trustees , sometimes they have been called managing partners ; it does not matter much what you call them as long as you understand what their true position is , which is really that they are commercial men managing a trading concern for the benefit of themselves and all the other shareholders … they are bound to use fair and reasonable diligence in the management of the company 's affairs and to act honestly . |
| 16 | The legal procedures may be improved , but they are bound to remain vulnerable to an erroneous police case . |
| 17 | They are employed to give infinitesimal steerage-changes to the Salyut and Soyuz vehicles as they manoeuvre to dock in space . |
| 18 | This is how they are employed to explain social life . |
| 19 | You know what happens — people hear but they do n't want to become involved in case it 's all a game and they are made to feel foolish . ’ |
| 20 | If they are made to feel lesser , to any type of women they react with a certain machismo to try and subvert that . |
| 21 | They are asked to create still images of an incident they saw on one of their journeys back in time , as if these were holographic , three dimensional pictures . |
| 22 | They are asked to visit one of the 17 windfarms operating in England and Wales and assess whether they enhance or disturb the beauty of the countryside . |
| 23 | attention decrement : subjects may ‘ hold on ’ to initial words because they get distracted or bored when they are asked to process sequential information , hence they do n't pay attention to later words . |
| 24 | Beyond the brief : All three are prepared , indeed eager , to go beyond what might be thought to be the narrow design brief and comment on the nature and selection of the material they are asked to make attractive and intelligible on the page . |
| 25 | As Macdonald explains , it seems that women are either invisible in most school textbooks or , when they appear at all , they are seen performing low-status tasks . |
| 26 | Often they are seen to have three ingredients : a cognitive ingredient ( what I believe , say , about pollution ) ; an affective ingredient ( how I feel about pollution ) ; and a behavioural ingredient ( what I am prepared to do about pollution ) . |
| 27 | This non only improves the attendance , health and morale of their workforce , but also enhances working relationships and the reputation and status of the employer , as they are seen to place more value on their employees . |
| 28 | The US also released a list of other European products on which they are considering imposing additional duties if negotiations with the EC ‘ failed to result in adequate reform ’ of its system of agricultural subsidies on oilseed exports . |
| 29 | In London they are determined to break even without outside assistance-even if this means raising fares to ease congestion . |
| 30 | They are determined to keep 68 per cent of the republic 's territory within either Yugoslavia or Serbia by force . |