Example sentences of "they be [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A group of them are taking a truck of supplies out to Romania at Easter .
2 The difference between you and most other women is that not many of them are granted the opportunity to actually indulge their nostalgia , save mentally .
3 In today 's Washington , where ideology is a murmur of distant guns but technocrats have not quite recovered their old authority , the think-tanks seem at a loss ; many of them are cutting the size of their staffs .
4 So those who try to dismiss Jesus as being a good teacher , a religious leader , a prophet and no more — all of them are missing the truth .
5 Indeed , some of them are making a virtue of their exemption by saying that that is part of the reason for opting for trust status .
6 Furthermore , many authorities , had they been given the option , would have chosen to spend more on services .
7 Had they been given the time , they 'd 've talked their faces off .
8 They had not given the details of the break-in a moment 's thought , so keen had they been to avoid the subject in the course of the evening .
9 In this way they are exploring the relationship between psychological well-being and issues such as experienced relative poverty , income related stigma , perceived ( non ) entitlements , spending and consumption patterns and attitudes , the domestic division of family economic management , coping strategies and budgeting tactics .
10 They are to hold a site meeting .
11 MURTON Brass Band has been in existence for more than 100 years and to say thank you to the people of the village who have kept the band going , they are to give a concert at the Victoria Club .
12 Here people accept the importance of regular exercise but it is not clear if they are translating the message into action .
13 The theft , at allotments behind the Beechwood and Easterside Club , Middlesbrough , has angered the racing club members so much they are forming a vigilante group to keep overnight watch on the lofts .
14 They are opposing a bid by the Cotton Club to stay open until 2am .
15 They are opposing a bid by the Cotton Club to stay open until 2am .
16 They are chewing a drug plant and drinking their quite disgusting beer or spirit — I had only one sip and did not stay to analyse the taste but rejected it instantly — the dancers — wearing headdresses feathered like exotic birds and daubed all over with signs and scribbles — messages to their gods , I assumed — then begin to pound the earth in a movement which matches the drumming perfectly and , like the drumming , is powerfully affecting . ’
17 Environmental Health officer Richard Hallows admitted yesterday they are facing a problem and called on the public to help them .
18 These , under pressure to increase the returns on their portfolios over very short review periods , turn over their holdings frequently ( known as ‘ churning ’ ) , disposing of a company 's shares on the first sign that they are under-performing the market .
19 Worse , they are achieving the opposite of what they intend .
20 They are searching the flat methodically , opening cushions , moving furniture , looking beneath the floor .
21 They are searching the Castle ; and they have set a guard on the trapdoor . ’
22 Shareware libraries provide you with a program on disk for a ‘ nominal ’ sum — they are providing the program for free , and charging only for the disk , duplicating and administration , all of which includes a small amount of profit , I suppose .
23 A number of the 150 people who have contacted Age Concern England about the debt they face took up their scheme before this date and will not be able to obtain compensation even if they are granted an award through arbitration or private legal action .
24 For example , if a researcher wants to investigate the factors that influence pupils when they are choosing the subjects they wish to study at higher levels of education , then group discussions with , for example , fourteen-year-old pupils in almost any secondary school would give some ideas about what questions to include in a questionnaire .
25 When people are feeling wound up , there are different things that can unleash the barbed remark : another small demand for their attention , a lost key , not being taken seriously enough by the person to whom they are cataloguing the disasters of the day , or TOO MUCH NOISE .
26 ‘ They need to progress at 10–15 miles a day if they are to reach the pole by Easter , according to plan ’ , she said .
27 The Government seem to have washed their hands of the problem : they are taking no responsibility for it , and that is not good enough .
28 Reigning champions Striders have injury problems so they are taking no chances and have drafted in Gary Lough , who is a student at Loughborough University .
29 They are taking a hell of a lot on .
30 They are taking a risk in borrowing the cash .
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