Example sentences of "they [vb base] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gestures they make are at one with their interesting footwork . |
| 2 | Indeed , the way in which they interact is of crucial importance . |
| 3 | This year 's ‘ local ’ booking they say is at Old Shildon Working Men 's Club on February 14 . |
| 4 | The funds they receive are for specific services — hence the term ‘ fund accounting ’ . |
| 5 | They do not need to go erm and th th they they have their own positions and I think a lot of what they speak is of genuine concern . |
| 6 | They know the truth : that life with an aged parent can be a strange mixture of joy and sorrow , and all they ask is for that fact to be accepted , not glossed over by their family and society , and then to be offered some practical ideas on how to make the best of a good job , which they consider to be well worth doing . |
| 7 | A great many assessment systems are competitive in that the extrinsic rewards they offer are in short supply and each student who wants them is asked to demonstrate that he or she is more deserving than others , or others are less deserving . |
| 8 | Equally , everybody knows why everybody stays , they 've been through all the arguments a hundred times before and now they do n't need to any more , now they know they 're not to blame and their husbands are n't the homicidal maniacs some theorists would have them be . |
| 9 | They have been extremely efficient and effective in carrying out their onerous tasks , and they 've been of enormous assistance in ensuring the smooth running of this enquiry , and indeed it has run smoothly . |
| 10 | Well he 's taken us out when they 've been to bloody shop working and come back and wa I admitted that , but I mean just to go out for an evening . |
| 11 | And that 's moved them no less than three places up the second division table , they 're higher than I think they 've been for many a long day . |
| 12 | He and his wife , Nellie , live in a Home in an outer city suburb where they 've been for fifteen months . |
| 13 | But what it is er they 've been like that for years , like , in the bathrooms |
| 14 | Maurice Hope held a similar view , though he favoured social rather than genetic factors : ‘ Black people are natural fighters ; they 've been fighting for survival and they 've been in that condition all their lives . |
| 15 | In that netherworld state , while they 've been in that state of absorption . ’ |
| 16 | Okay and finally erm are London boroughs erm yeah blank blank , eighty six election and the next London borough elections will be in nineteen ninety four so they 've been in nineteen eighty six , nineteen ninety and nineteen , they will next be in nineteen ninety four . |
| 17 | I do feel I 'd like to say one point about the people who were in this house , that it 's quite clear , all of them I believe were under care of the social services , erm and I do n't know enough about their history to say whether they , where they 've been before , whether they 've been in some half-way house , or just been thrown out of some mental institution . |
| 18 | that there is that fear , that is because that is the second World War this is why the erm the er late thirties , early forties was never gon na succeed , because they had two completely different archaeologist , plus now in their purest form their not that but in the they were , they were never going to work , I mean that is the fact that their communists , the sole reason they 've been against each other for a hundred and fifty years there is no other reason |
| 19 | Yeah , but they 're not , the whole idea is that they 're not , they do n't wan na ask , they 're not prepared to ask it 's not right It should be provided by the school they 've been against that whole thing . |
| 20 | Of course , the information they glean is of little value if the Goblin is pulverised as he impacts with the ground . |
| 21 | Er the the room , the smallest room they have is for twenty five to thirty people |
| 22 | Most essential of all for the future assessment of public finance , we must establish a truly independent source of economic statistics to ensure that judgments are not distorted — as they have been under this Government , by political interference in their collection or presentation . |
| 23 | It is interesting to note that other countries are now copying our know-how funds because they have been of such help to the former Soviet Union and other eastern European countries . |
| 24 | These two treatises gave classic expression to the opposing arguments about the eucharist , and they have been of great interest to theologians ever since . |
| 25 | However , they have been of considerable value in that they have challenged the assumptions of many gerontologists and policy makers and forced a closer examination of our knowledge about health and ageing in later life . |
| 26 | " Scores of men are in a worse plight than they have been for thirty-seven years past " , admitted Harry Orbell , " The pawnshops are glutted . |
| 27 | These will be concerns for his successor as David will take his leave of the Education Department at the end of July and his immediate plans are more leisurely now than they have been for many years . |
| 28 | ‘ House repossessions are at no higher rate than they have been for many years , ’ he says . |
| 29 | And I do n't think they have been for this last |
| 30 | ‘ Present values are lower than they have been for some time , and are sticking . |