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

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1 Although many local authorities in their strategy documents state that they aim first at rehabilitation , I remain unconvinced that they are devoting the same resources in terms of skilled social workers with small caseloads and adequate financial support to natural families , as they do to finding and supporting new families .
2 When people talk together about marriage they often assume they are discussing the same thing .
3 Only a little thought will show what a nonsense this is , for , as we have just seen , no two individuals manifest their illnesses in exactly the same way even if they are given the same disease label .
4 When Montaigne and Bacon stress the determining power of social custom they are developing the same idea of an order prior to and determining of consciousness , though now of course with the crucial difference that it is a non-teleological order , historical rather than divine , material rather than metaphysical .
5 The harder they are blown the more will the horns and tuba part company , until in ff there is an almost complete lack of blend .
6 They are left a few millimetres thick and lapped flat or polished , using a lapping compound with paraffin oil lubricant .
7 Although spiders and insects hear the world in a very different way from us , they are sampling the same sounds carried through the air .
8 We do not object to women working the keyboards , so long as they are paid the same wages as men .
9 They are paid the same as people who can teach brilliantly .
10 If he can look that prospect squarely in the eye and both parties cut out the cheap jibes , they will see that they are talking the same language .
11 Now what we have to know is whether or not they are in fact getting these contracts because they are the best and the cheapest , or whether they are getting it because they have the best connections and they are paying the most money .
12 But in having to work together they are doing no more than thousands of couples and millions of professional people who may not like each other but who understand that there are times when they must look positive .
13 And nor should they be , for if my contention is correct , they are simply discovering new applications for that basic idea of popular power ; they are doing no more than engaging in the latest reinterpretation , or fresh application , of the classic democratic idea .
14 This was repulsed , though Than Tun claimed that they desired unity which was the wish of the masses : ‘ The Rightists of the AFPFL submitted to the Imperialists in the Nu — Attlee Treaty , now also they are doing the same in discarding the Communist Party . ’
15 ‘ Well , ’ she said after a moment 's pause , ‘ of course they are doing the same job up to a point and that 's never an easy pattern of work .
16 England will need frequent penetration on the wings if they are to make the most of Lineker and Bull .
17 One believes they are making the same mistakes as the oil companies made — ‘ giving away the product in the hope of buying customers ’ .
18 This one erm it 's really good cos they 've like , got nice little rooms and tellies in room and like , if like , they come and they 're trying to like clean up , the cleaners 'll like , give them a cloth so they 'll think they 're helping an that .
19 They 're taking the same men on .
20 The implication has been all along that they 're using the same United States manufacturing source but in fact there are one or two discrepancies here , erm , because the value is so high , I 'm actually sort of going through and looking at everything pretty closely , and they 've changed the basis so wow , .
21 Ask them if they 're having the same problem . ’
22 And th they they 've announced the next day that they 're having the same concert as well !
23 the Kings theatres in towns where by and large they 're showing the same shows
24 And they 're following the same laws so yeah that should be .
25 Its twenty five years since the folk rock band Fairport Convention first got together and this year they 're planning a few suprises , but one of the stars will be missing .
26 They 're spendin' a few thousand on the Town Centre plantin' all trees 'n' things .
27 Since then , Runrig have become a national institution and Capercaillie look as though they 're heading the same way .
28 Also now that we 've got UNISON the one union I think they can help but I do think that 's what needs to be done , because they 're doing the same with the hospital as , as now doing with the pits even after the closure campaign .
29 I believe it 's because they have the best connections , and they 're paying the most money .
30 ‘ Well if Security 's in on that could n't they be finding the same pattern that you have ? ’
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