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

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1 If fundholders were to be a lever for change in the reorganised National Health Service there is evidence from this study that they are achieving this objective .
2 Now the director general of Bellas Artes , Jose Maria Luzón cites the EEC as the reason why they are retracting this gesture , although in fact Brussels has never legislated on the matter .
3 Where they are denied this opportunity , their worship is likely to be uninspired and lacking in energy .
4 Now , however , they are finding this position increasingly difficult to maintain .
5 They have gone through privatization and ceased being Civil Servants and gone out into the cold and now they are suffering this blow , so they do , I think , deserve the most generous possible treatment .
6 And the other one , I wonder if the Council would consider , over sixties club , I ought to declare an interest I suppose , erm have two hundred members and they are distributing this Christmas , as they al always do , a three pound voucher to each of those members in office you know and I just wondered whether the Council would consider a small contribution towards that expenditure .
7 Cantona has become so attractive to Leeds that they are expected this week to offer him a two or three-year contract , and Nimes , his French club , a further £800,000 , when the striker 's loan period expires at the end of the season .
8 There is a growing body of professional opinion that senior managers in secondary schools face and increasing need to work in close collaboration if they are to meet this challenge effectively .
9 Unless anyone should mistake my purpose , I say clearly that , provided that local authorities , at the point of change in April 1993 , have the power to spend that which they are spending this year , plus inflation , not one meal on wheels , not one old people 's home , not one teacher — in fact not one public provision — need be cut .
10 There are no doubt directors who claim — whatever the reality — that they are doing this kind of thing already , albeit with less lavish resources .
11 So when the Japanese cut production in a slumping market , as they are doing this year , these high overhead costs are spread over fewer chips .
12 What has been taken as kind of definition , which I 'll paraphrase I think for this purpose , is that it 's a condition that shows itself in children 's reading difficulty and erm that they are having this reading difficulty despite the fact that they have had reasonable , normal teaching , that their level of intelligence appears to be normal and that they come from an adequate social cultural background .
13 Management at Monkton-hall last night played down the significance of Caledonian Mining 's decision , saying they were greatly encouraged by the talks they are having this week with at least three other potential partners .
14 They say that they are following this course because bookshops are essentially ineffective in expanding their market and that it is unreasonable for them to be restricted to selling their product to us alone .
15 They are playing this week at the Ntcheu refugee camp , Malawi , having previously graced venues in Sierra Leone and Ghana .
16 Because they 're bringing this bloke he goes fishing with
17 They 're leaving this place in the afternoon and we have another lot coming in , so Stella has arranged for Jean to attend to the chalets and bed changing while she does the barbecue at the end of the rafting . ’
18 Are they , are they have they , are they stupid , have they gone totally mad and they 're obstructing this thing for ever and ever and ever just for the sake of obstructing and you have t to listen to what they say on on this , the argument that we 're having here and have had here and the argument that we 've had about old people 's homes , they 've been two running sores in this authority and hopefully today in both of them we 'll be making progress and I think I 'd like to .
19 They 're playing this afternoon , ’ explained Luke .
20 Er because they know that on average unless things change a lot , that they they 're following this curve this growth this growth curve .
21 this morning when , where we all watched it for the first time together and as , as Richard said you know , I 'm , I 'm squeamish about going to the dentist , so , and it cos er , it 's basically there 's a scene in the bar where they 're pulling this guy 's tooth out
22 Du n no why they 're saying this bit .
23 ‘ Yes — they 're coming this afternoon for tissue-typing .
24 They are , they 're coming this way .
25 be told to do that when they 're doing this bit are n't they ?
26 Could we not agree today to ask the appropriate committee , whether it be Policy and Resources , the Resources Management of Regional Council , that when they 're examining this question of the carry forwards , that they themselves review the impact that this will have on , on the benefits of five B for this County ?
27 And the Magistrate , watching like a stoat , could see by the alarm on their faces that they were assigning this treatment to Dr McNab for no other reason than that he had happened to mention it .
28 And they were buying this house and it was worth something like I do n't know , they were , they 'd got a twenty five grand mortgage .
29 Some of these children , if they were given this attention over a two year period , could overcome this and go into the secondary school able to cope and take their place alongside the other children , and this is desperately important .
30 They were considering this choice when they were abruptly aware of Commander Abigail .
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