Example sentences of "they be [vb pp] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lee , who left the family home in Skelton two years ago , came in from the cold to highlight the plight of the young homeless : the Rural Development Commission says more than 14,000 people in country areas are without a home 12pc of the national total and many of them are forced to leave rural areas altogether . |
| 2 | In support of this view , a number of studies have indicated that language-impaired children make significant improvements if the adults around them are induced to make systematic changes in certain aspects of their language ( Howlin 1984 ; McLean and Snyder 1978 ) . |
| 3 | A similar focus on the war 's effect in shattering class barriers is present in In Which We Serve ( 1942 ) , where the trigger to unity is a torpedoed destroyer rather than a crashed plane , The Gentle Sex ( 1943 ) , which follows a group of women as they are trained to become competent fighters , and Millions Like Us ( 1943 ) , which brings together a mixed group of girls in an aircraft engineering factory . |
| 4 | We have some that are very specific , in the sense that they are intended to provide certain particular skills or techniques . |
| 5 | Directors have sometimes been called trustees , or commercial trustees , sometimes they have been called managing partners ; it does not matter much what you call them as long as you understand what their true position is , which is really that they are commercial men managing a trading concern for the benefit of themselves and all the other shareholders … they are bound to use fair and reasonable diligence in the management of the company 's affairs and to act honestly . |
| 6 | The legal procedures may be improved , but they are bound to remain vulnerable to an erroneous police case . |
| 7 | They are employed to give infinitesimal steerage-changes to the Salyut and Soyuz vehicles as they manoeuvre to dock in space . |
| 8 | This is how they are employed to explain social life . |
| 9 | You know what happens — people hear but they do n't want to become involved in case it 's all a game and they are made to feel foolish . ’ |
| 10 | If they are made to feel lesser , to any type of women they react with a certain machismo to try and subvert that . |
| 11 | They are asked to create still images of an incident they saw on one of their journeys back in time , as if these were holographic , three dimensional pictures . |
| 12 | attention decrement : subjects may ‘ hold on ’ to initial words because they get distracted or bored when they are asked to process sequential information , hence they do n't pay attention to later words . |
| 13 | Beyond the brief : All three are prepared , indeed eager , to go beyond what might be thought to be the narrow design brief and comment on the nature and selection of the material they are asked to make attractive and intelligible on the page . |
| 14 | As Macdonald explains , it seems that women are either invisible in most school textbooks or , when they appear at all , they are seen performing low-status tasks . |
| 15 | In London they are determined to break even without outside assistance-even if this means raising fares to ease congestion . |
| 16 | They are said to obey Fermi-Dirac statistics . |
| 17 | The most important approach , which is reaching its limits , is to increase the rate at which the computer 's components are ‘ clocked ’ , how often they are told to perform simple operations . |
| 18 | Photographs from the 1940s depict the gaunt and hungry faces of workers in the fields , whereas those photographed in the 1980s are well-fed and healthy as they are shown assembling electronic accessories in thoroughly modern factories . |
| 19 | Mobility for women who make up 45 per cent of the labour force involves little choice once they reach the 25–30 age group when they are expected to take temporary retirement into marriage . |
| 20 | Those who do go public are disloyal and there are thinly veiled attempts to dismiss the value of any revelation they make , for they are expected to remain silent and uncritical . |
| 21 | Girls , particularly in their final year of study , often feel that they are expected to become engaged . |
| 22 | They are confined to make sure they do n't squash their piglets . |
| 23 | Guests participate through the introduction of ‘ blue boxes ’ in bedrooms , into which they are encouraged to throw recyclable waste . |
| 24 | These are often referred to as ‘ pull ’ techniques , in that they are designed to stimulate final demand and move products through the sales channel , with the consumer providing the impetus . |
| 25 | Because they are designed to justify certain propositions , the questions they ask are formulated in such a way as to prompt the desired answers . |
| 26 | Valor Dream Decorative Gas These differ from Living Flame Effect Fires by being entirely open , although once again , they are designed to simulate solid fuel coal or log fires . |
| 27 | The actions to be described next are most effective in the here-and-now ; they are designed to resolve immediate problems . |
| 28 | They are designed to maximise retail selling space at investment levels that can be matched to a variety of business options , and to provide growth potential in non traditional locations , at significantly lower capital investment compared to the traditional concept . |
| 29 | A Northern Electric spokesman urged people not to approach downed lines : ‘ Although they are designed to fail safe people must not get to close . |
| 30 | The stories range from beginner to intermediate level ; they are designed to present basic language structures and to teach conversational American English . |