Example sentences of "they be [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And finally , the criminal injuries compensation scheme , to cut the amounts paid to people who are victims of gang rape , to cut the amount paid to people who are victims of child abuse , that shows just how much the Home Secretary cares about the victims of crime , and his other measures show that he 's far more concerned with his own career , with pleasing the Conservative party conference , and with trying to do anything , anything I mean he 's brought in whatever it is , twenty-seven proposals , one or two of them are bound to work , if you throw enough stuff at the fan , some of it usually hits the target . |
| 2 | The majority of businesses have less than ten employees and an increasing number of them are turning to IT as a low cost way to improve productivity and recordkeeping . |
| 3 | Most of them are frozen to death . |
| 4 | A discussion in our house on ( let's say ) the necessity of buying a new fridge will move swiftly to the education system ( via the rival claim of school fees to the purchase of the fridge ) and whether a move to another area might obviate the need for paying them , taking in a quick discourse on the immorality of contributing to the divisive education system in this country anyway ; this will lead to the if-we-sold-our-suburban-villa-we-could-buy-a-Georgian-manor-house-in-the-country conversation ; which will in its turn move on quite quickly to the horrors of British Rail and the greatly increased subjection to them that such a move would entail ; then we get to leaving all our friends behind , and to debating whether having them to stay at the weekends would not be perfectly satisfactory ; which will remind us that two or more of them are coming to dinner that very night and we 'd better get down to the off-licence ; then it 's shall-we-get-Muscadet-or-the-Chardonnay- again and for-heaven's-sake-get-enough which will get us back to the fridge , on account of last time we got the Chardonnay , I did n't put it in it soon enough . |
| 5 | They are referring to rabies , which in Portuguese is called raiva — literally rage , fury , madness . |
| 6 | They are aroused to activity by others , by friendship , by relating . |
| 7 | Moreton councillor Ken Hemsley said : ‘ I am just concerned that people answering 999 calls may not understand a local dialect and they may be talking about a place which the person they are speaking to will never have heard of . |
| 8 | In these cases , if the aim of the interviewer is to ‘ solve people 's problems ’ they are destined to failure and the stress that goes with it . |
| 9 | They are made to measure and supplied pre-glazed — double or triple — with all the fittings and screws in place ready for immediate , trouble-free installation ( as long as measuring up has been done carefully , and the hole for the window is square ) . |
| 10 | They are tailored to company needs whenever practicable . |
| 11 | Heavily influenced by traditional Scottish recipes , they are cooked to perfection . |
| 12 | Legislative power is vested in a bicameral Parliament ( consisting of a House of Assembly which is popularly elected every five years , and an appointed Senate ) , to which the Prime Minister and Cabinet are responsible and upon whose advice they are appointed to office by the Governor General . |
| 13 | Guests of Mark and Cynthia Wilkinson are literally out on a limb when they are invited to dinner — because the couple entertain in a tree house . |
| 14 | Thus , if people achieve a fair degree of mastery over outcomes and have experience in controlling and manipulating the sources of reinforcement in their lives before they are exposed to uncontrollability , they should be more resilient to depression . |
| 15 | However , it is already apparent that resistance can be induced in insects relatively rapidly when they are exposed to toxin that has been expressed in plants or other organisms . |
| 16 | Although object technology is ‘ a major technical change to the system , ’ Bourne says that SunSoft 's approach is very different from other efforts such as the IBM-Apple Computer Inc Taligent venture or Microsoft Corp 's Cairo because they are looking to reusability and faster time to market for applications as an end result . |
| 17 | After a successful rescue the small party is relentlessly pursued by the Viet Cong , but they are airlifted to safety by helicopters of the Air Cavalry . |
| 18 | Yet the amphibia as a whole represent an early level of terrestrial organization ; they are tied to water for reproduction , because their larvae have to pass through a wholly subaqueous phase , and desiccation of the adult is a constant danger . |
| 19 | Eventually they are turned to stone , but they retain not only the outward shape that they had in life , albeit sometimes distorted , but on occasion even their detailed cellular structure is preserved so that you can look at sections of them through the microscope and plot the shape of the blood vessels and the nerves that once surrounded them . |
| 20 | First , they are related to subadditivity — the question of whether or not the industry is a natural monopoly . |
| 21 | All sources of information , if they are related to meaning , are deemed worthy of investigation and possible subsequent inclusion in the design of a ’ semantic knowledge base ’ . |
| 22 | If we accept the importance of these factors it becomes necessary to consider how they are related to intonation , and what intonation itself consists of . |
| 23 | Both companies deny , however , that they are responding to criticism . |
| 24 | For the second verse at ‘ so high ’ the hands are clasped together and raised above the head , on ‘ so low ’ they are lowered to knee level and on ‘ so wide ’ they are stretched out sideways as far as possible . |
| 25 | The Department of the Environment has agreed to fund a major study into deaths and diseases among marine mammals in the North Sea , in an effort to determine once and for all whether they are linked to pollution . |
| 26 | So an insistence on the importance of principle in no way denies the value of experience or customary practices but simply requires that they are subjected to evaluation , and not just taken on trust . |
| 27 | The Minister has an obligation to tell us whether the Government intend to implement Rothschild if they are returned to power . |
| 28 | Genesis is exhilarating and exuberant orthodox big-band music of a kind rarely played with such punch any more and the sharpness of the CD enhances the brash , headlong momentum of it — Tracey 's orchestras always sound as if they are going to work with the elan of Saturday night at the Savoy ballroom . |
| 29 | Furthermore , an oversell leaves the candidate wondering what kind of people they are going to work for . |
| 30 | Large companies ca n't afford unnecessary stockholding or paperwork , and they are going to press their trading partners to ensure that they do n't have to . |