Example sentences of "they be [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three of them are spending Christmas with us , which will be lovely , but no doubt a bit fraught , as one highly active child will be joined by one ditto kitten , who thinks nothing of leaping on to your lap at mealtimes , digging her claws into your legs for support . |
| 2 | Most defendants in capital cases are black and they can not afford legal representation , so they are assigned counsel by the state . |
| 3 | These are the children who sometimes crack at university level because they are facing challenge for the first time in their lives . ’ |
| 4 | By concentrating upon the physical consequences , the surgeons are deluding themselves and their patients into believing that they are helping the problem and that they are providing encouragement for the future . |
| 5 | They are reclaiming rock from the strutting , posturing macho Metal peacocks and the fey , fumbling , characterless boys and dragging it down into a cathartic sexual/emotional hell for a slice of long-overdue feminine judgement . |
| 6 | The mass of working people , as they liberate themselves from the bourgeois yoke , will gravitate irresistibly towards us … provided yesterday 's oppressions do not infringe the long oppressed nation 's highly developed democratic feeling of self-respect and provided they are granted equality in everything . |
| 7 | When the Roman crowds gather outside St Peter 's , they are taking part in a moral system , however detestable it may be . |
| 8 | When the mobs rush forward in the Mall they are taking part in the last circus of a civilization that has lost faith in itself , and sold itself for a splendid triviality . |
| 9 | Dressed in period costume and clutching lunches of bread , cheese and cold pies , wrapped in cloth , they are taking part in a living history experiment . |
| 10 | They are taking part in Food Safety Awareness Week organised by the Institution of Environmental Health Officers and the Food and Drink Federation . |
| 11 | They are taking part in an arms race in which success on one side is felt by the other side as failure . |
| 12 | This year they are taking place at Espoo , Finland , and in 1994 they will be at Stavanger , Norway . |
| 13 | The other point which is made by the defendant is this , he says that the plaintiffs have been guilty of delaying tactics er during the course of this litigation , the result of which has been that er he has not been able to realize his interest in the partnership premises , also he has not been able to acquire a partnership premises and he he , doctor mentioned to me that to the actual conveyance of the partnership premises he 's , he tells me was only produced I think thirty and er that er it was only then that he realized there might be a chance that he could acquire the premises for himself , but he says that er because of the general , I think the case is , because of the general conduct of the plaintiffs in delaying the trial of the action one way or another , er the practical effect has been that the plaintiffs have had the benefit of use and occupation of the premises at which he erm , a main view , has a lot of that interest and that they are getting benefit of the kind from that occupation and he is not getting any money in res in respect of that , at least nothing like any market rent because it maybe that there is a fairly small er payment being made , but I 'm not too entirely clear whether that is the case or not , but the stock bond is suggesting that the plaintiffs have been obtaining benefit of the use of the premises at his expense and in those circumstances it is unfair er in , in , or otherwise not appropriate that the plaintiffs should be entitled to obtain interest on their bill of costs , in respect essentially of the period of delay , and when I say period of delay included that the period during which the forward of Mr Justice remained erm unprotected . |
| 14 | The difficulty with this is that unless there are well-established efficiency measures for the services of the department neither it nor its users will know whether they are getting value for money . |
| 15 | But customers at present have difficulty in knowing whether they are getting value for money . |
| 16 | They are maintaining contact with the world . |
| 17 | He has just noticed they are serving coffee on the next floor up . |
| 18 | Zoos , botanical gardens and some circuses claim they are serving conservation by breeding animals or plants in captivity . |
| 19 | To allow pupils to progress at a pace suited to their own particular aptitudes , they are taught French in sets based on their ability in the subject . |
| 20 | Bursting with spring health , they are drawing sustenance from a compost containing thousands of banknotes and travellers cheques . |
| 21 | Yet they are using blackmail on miners to vote to close pits earlier than they year that had been decided on so that they can close the pit down and they have cut the redundancy payments for miners . |
| 22 | For a differential drill they are placed side by side and drilled across to highlight the difference between them . |
| 23 | Once they pass they are given accreditation for the products they are allowed to sell , and that accreditation is available for the customer to see . ’ |
| 24 | Correll thinks herbicides , more potent than they are given credit for , may be to blame . |
| 25 | But they , and the set-piece speeches to the party faithful , have also done more for Tory morale than they are given credit for . |
| 26 | Whilst these may be significantly cheaper in terms of cost and so written off as mere toys they are often far more capable of producing simple documents than they are given credit for . |
| 27 | He thinks people 's musical perceptions are wider than they are given credit for . |
| 28 | This is to say that linguistic ( as well as social ) activities become significant because they are given significance by all participants — not only the " speaker " . |
| 29 | In this way , provided they are given guidance on the type and volume of work expected , schools could be brought back into the mainstream of assessing their own pupils ' work instead of being totally dependent on the success or failure of the guessing games they play with the examiner . |
| 30 | The most severely-handicapped may be able to benefit from pictures and music , if they are given access to them . |