Example sentences of "they are [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them are n't doing cabinetry ( joinery ) any more — a lot of them started out that way . |
| 2 | They are simply marking time , waiting for fashion futures to be decided elsewhere . |
| 3 | They are generally fed whole to sheep , although this can cause older ewes to shed their incisor teeth prematurely and thus shorten their useful lives . |
| 4 | They are generally arranged back to back , and a rough little relief of Roman date shows that then at least they were so set . |
| 5 | The local Cheka quoted ominous peasant complaints against the government : ‘ They are n't planning freedom for us , but serfdom . |
| 6 | One argument against the Government 's third term agenda for local government and the public services has been that , by undermining local authorities , they are increasingly centralizing decision-taking . |
| 7 | They must state immediately that they are here to destroy Chaos and Evil or some direct equivalent ( such as ‘ Hail to Solkan ! ’ ) . |
| 8 | It has never been the case that central Government would indemnify local authorities for expenditure when they are already given money through the revenue support grant to enable them to undertake their responsibilities , and that is not a way forward . |
| 9 | ‘ They are both finding prison life tough and would have cracked by now if they were guilty . ’ |
| 10 | These front line workers , like the rest of us , have certain taken-for-granted ideas about ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ parenting , and they are also given expert knowledge that tells them some of the factors to which child abuse is positively related . |
| 11 | They are also given share options . |
| 12 | They are also given power to vote on fundamental structural changes to the company , such as altering the memorandum and articles of association or merging with another company or dissolving the enterprise which are thought to resemble constitutional issues . |
| 13 | They are also discussing custody of Kevin , six , Sean , five and one-year-old Emily . |
| 14 | They are also restricting access to their markets , which will minimise the economic dislocation and the ultimate loss of industrial base . |
| 15 | During their isolation , they are reportedly denied access to legal counsel and family visits and are at risk of systematic torture and ill-treatment . |
| 16 | Teenagers like to experiment and to feel rebellious , and problems can arise if they are not given guidance in the use of alcohol . |
| 17 | People tend to think , because they are not doing sums on paper they are not learning maths — but they are . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ people with learning difficulties are not respected to begin with and because the women 's Individual Programmes , including skills training , are not in place , they are not progressing as well as they could and they are not getting respect . ’ |
| 19 | Fattening pastures , as opposed to land where growing youngstock is reared or dairy cows kept , require little manure apart from the droppings of the grazing animals , as they are not exporting bone ( phosphorus ) or milk ( calcium ) from the land . |
| 20 | Is the Minister aware that Members of Parliament , and anybody else with two homes , need only one television licence to cover both homes , the assumption being that they are not watching television simultaneously in both homes . |
| 21 | When this happens they are not called male and female but they 're arbitrarily labelled plus and minus . |
| 22 | Deliveries of Cuban sugar , which arrives mainly in the first half of the year , load the Soviet sugar factories ' productive capacities in the period when they are not processing sugar beet ( Kolodov : 1984 , p. 16 ) . |
| 23 | Sometimes students get anxious about this , and believe they are not making audience contact early enough ; but if you think about it , the reasoning is clear . |
| 24 | Certain people have claimed that in group psychoanalysis and that I think is fraudulent , because they are not doing analysis they 're doing something different and erm I think it is something described I think very well in this book , although of course as we said this was written erm er group therapy . |
| 25 | Disorganized capitalism remains capitalism , and they make it clear that they are not bidding farewell to the working class . |
| 26 | For good measure , and to show the regime 's non-Kurdish opponents that they are not trading democracy for autonomy , the Kurds asked for free elections throughout the country . |
| 27 | SACRED Sexuality is a doctrine being preached by a couple of Czechs called Zek and Misha Halu , and they are currently holding weekend courses to teach Westerners how to fulfil their own sexual potential . |
| 28 | They are currently planning version 5 , and it wo n't end there . |
| 29 | Having taken advantage of 100pc relief he claims they not only bought tackle which ‘ has mainly stood idle ever since ’ but did so with borrowed money on which they are still paying interest 10 years on . |
| 30 | All others can be eliminated because they are there to create atmosphere , which in ballet can be supplied by the music , set and appropriate costumes . |