Example sentences of "they [be] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , now some of them are actually getting the chance . |
| 2 | But all of them are constantly watching the keyboard for their particular call up command and it is possible that one command may affect more than one accessory — with predictable , and disastrous , results ! |
| 3 | ‘ We do n't want to see things dragged on indefinitely , but they are repeatedly delaying a solution to the problem . ’ |
| 4 | Almost 17 million of South Africa 's 28 million blacks live in the homelands and their support at the ballot box is crucial whenever they are finally given the vote . |
| 5 | ‘ These panes of glass are bullet proof and will not shatter , but if they are badly weakened a large , frightened animal like a bear may be able to force its way through and the consequences would be very severe ’ . |
| 6 | In essence the courts ' control over the conditions of jurisdiction is premised upon the assumption that they are thereby effectuating the will of Parliament ; they are ensuring that the tribunal or authority remains within the boundaries of what Parliament intended it to examine by ensuring that those conditions are present . |
| 7 | Now that summer is almost here ( we hope ! ) a keep fit mania has hit some of the girls at Crediton and they are frantically dusting the cobwebs off their bicycles in readiness for the ride to work . |
| 8 | They are clearly having the trip of their lives . |
| 9 | Where the services can not be seen as making an economic contribution , they are clearly improving the quality of life for members of the community , which is presumably the ultimate goal of raising productivity and standards of living anyway . |
| 10 | They are clearly approaching a shrine or altar of some kind , or they would not be behaving in this way ; in addition , our new view of the whole of the Knossos Labyrinth as a temple allows us to argue that even a staircase , as part of a temple-complex , might well be in a general sense dedicated to a presiding deity . |
| 11 | They are mostly using a mixture of APL and assessment on demand to gain the award . |
| 12 | They are even repeating the repeats EastEnders , right from the start , is shown three times a day , every day , Terry and June twice , The Goodies once . |
| 13 | Their difficulty arises because they are implicitly using a classical concept of reality in which an object has a definite single history . |
| 14 | As only intelligent and articulate people can , they are deftly defending the Disney premise by inventing a new genre : the Architecture of Entertainment . |
| 15 | ‘ I mean , they 're not open twelve hours like my shops , and they are n't using the space . ’ |
| 16 | They are n't lying — indeed , they 're all trying to be utterly sincere — but they are n't telling the truth . |
| 17 | ‘ There are a lot of people around but they are n't spending a lot of money . ’ |
| 18 | Cos they are n't talking the queen 's English ! |
| 19 | They are n't playing a man 's game , L7 are playing music , music that says so much more than merely suck this ! |
| 20 | They could , in fact , be located offshore in shallow water , and lying on the beach watching these large structures with their whirling blades in the murky or hazy distance might be quite satisfying thought that without doing anything they are just providing the nation 's energy , or some of it . |
| 21 | I know women are involved in the business , but they are just toeing the line , repeating the same old images , playing the men 's game . |
| 22 | She said : ‘ The message is that the UK government could n't care less , they are just applying a Band-Aid to a mortal wound . ’ |
| 23 | For example , it can be argued the expansion into amalgamated police units has enlarged the organization to a point where it is no longer accessible to the man in the street ; alternatively , it may be that the use of a centralized computer and complex technical aids has alienated the public even at the same time they are increasingly fed a diet of violent news snippets which reinforce a fear of crime and generate another ‘ folk devil ’ of criminal menace , which demands the impossible : a policeman on every corner . |
| 24 | One or more characters must stride towards the southern doors , declaring that they are here to destroy the Chaos and Evil beyond . |
| 25 | I think it 's actually a waste of time discussing that because they are already privatising the Health Service . |
| 26 | Those firms that take on their payroll the early leavers will again either gain a subsidy via a reduction of their training levy , or , if they are already claiming the maximum rebate , the payment of a grant from the training board . |
| 27 | They are already playing a crucial role in multimedia design and development . |
| 28 | They are already investigating the scope for putting some more services — management services , computer services and the collection of moneys — out to the private sector . |
| 29 | They include , to give just a few examples , realizing that they have re-read the same page of a book three times without taking any of it in ; nearly getting knocked over crossing the road ; yelling ‘ Tie ! ’ at a pupil they do n't know ; noticing that they are both reading a magazine and watching the television while having their evening meal ; spotting the line of empty wine bottles that has accrued since the weekend . |
| 30 | Note : Your two answers should be the same since they are both giving the area of the same triangle . |