Example sentences of "they [be] [adv] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often ecosystems become less diverse if they are simply allowed to ‘ settle down ’ . |
| 2 | In desperation , in many cases , young females deliberately become pregnant because they know that once they are in that state they are immediately restored to the benefit system . |
| 3 | Farm workers also gain intrinsic satisfaction from working with living and growing plants and animals and they share a sense of achievement when they are finally brought to maturity , the sequential nature of production allowing workers to be involved in all of the stages through to completion . |
| 4 | We must ensure that the security forces are the real defenders of human rights and freedom from fear and violence , and that they are clearly seen to be so . |
| 5 | While these elements have been ranked in order of comprehensibility , they are clearly interrelated to one another . |
| 6 | We shall also look at the Cinderellas of settlement studies — hamlets and farmsteads , which have received little attention but are of immense importance because they are widespread and because they are clearly related to both the origins and the decline of villages . |
| 7 | They are mostly limited to the accident and emergency department , the coronary care unit , and the intensive care unit ; results from general wards are depressingly poor . |
| 8 | They are even admitted to be absurd by Tertullian — ‘ Credo quia absurdum ’ — and believed in for that very reason ; but this is an argument which does not enable us to distinguish which absurd propositions we are to believe Freud thought . |
| 9 | The " mothers " , as they are generally referred to , are women who until a few years ago had never spoken in public , never organized a campaign . |
| 10 | They can be stated in a number of different ways , but they are generally accepted to be : |
| 11 | Such enzymes do exist — they are known as reverse transcriptases — but they are generally believed to be exclusive to RNA viruses , which need them to transcribe their RNA genes into DNA for replication inside cells . |
| 12 | Their advantages are : they are generally made to measure , so awkward sizes are n't a problem ; they need minimal maintenance ; and they usually have integral weatherstripping . |
| 13 | They are generally thought to be striking at Hipparchos not shown , an interesting but rather surprising concept ; one might rather see them as defending themselves against the bodyguard which cut them down . |
| 14 | We should not underestimate the power of official systems of classification of children , even when they are generally held to be inadequate by those that work with them . |
| 15 | Many of these straits are noted for strong tidal currents , but although such currents may assist in moving away the debris of erosion , they are generally held to be impotent as a cause of marked marine erosion , at least of those which outcrop in this locality . |
| 16 | Relatively few cost/benefit studies have yet been carried out except in such areas as crop prediction and ocean navigation ( where they are generally shown to be highly advantageous in saving someone else 's money ) . |
| 17 | All they are interested in — all they are generally permitted to be interested in — is whether they get a reasonable pension at the end of the day . |
| 18 | The human body is a reservoir of microorganisms as illustrated in Figure 6.5 and they are easily transferred to other things and people via the hands . |
| 19 | The clinical features of the two groups as well as the subgroups in group A — that is , those who had calculi at the time sclerosing cholangitis was diagnosed and those who developed calculi after sclerosing cholangitis was diagnosed , are shown in Table I. Because of the similarities between the two subgroups in group A , they are hereafter referred to as one group . |
| 20 | Most English wines have a fine fruit structure and a racily crisp freshness , so they are well matched to lightly flavoured fish — especially fish such as trout — and to light poultry dishes . |
| 21 | Cumulative selection will see to it that animals are well fitted to outrun their predators or outwit their prey , no less than it sees to it that they are well fitted to the prevailing weather conditions . |
| 22 | If the Hotel is part of a group , brochures of other hotels within the group should be on display and receptionists instructed to see that they are well distributed to guests and casual enquirers . |
| 23 | Now after five albums and two TV series they are well known to thousands of children throughout Britain , and their songbooks have become standard music-lesson texts in schools in Scotland . |
| 24 | The spirits can move the instruments , since they are strongly attuned to their protection . |
| 25 | It is generally agreed by the plethora of studies made of the phenomenon that : ( a ) they have been rapidly growing ; ( b ) they are most common in Europe ( see Table 7.4 ) ; ( c ) they are strongly related to the upper income bracket ( Bielckus et al , 1972 ) ; ( d ) they are concentrated in the more scenically attractive areas , and within these a contagious process can lead to further concentration ( Thissen , 1978 ) ; ( e ) they tend to form a further ripple of urbanization beyond the immediate commuter belt of big cities ( Boyer , 1980 ) ; and ( f ) they are also relatively and increasingly absolutely important in upland and mountainous areas ( Cribier , 1973 ) . |
| 26 | Redefinitions of chronology are claimed to be part of the process of improvement of understanding , but may as easily be viewed as an infinite series of alternatives none of which are demonstrably correct unless they are somehow related to the reality of the society in question . |
| 27 | Although broader in the range of their social backgrounds , they are somehow homogenized to a degree previously unthinkable . |
| 28 | They are later carted to a ‘ clamp ’ which should be sited on free-draining ground , and covered with up to a foot of straw or bracken . |
| 29 | Given the relative invisibility of these crimes , even to those victimized , the fact that they are infrequently reported to or detected by relevant authorities , the absence of any centralized data-collecting agency , and the inconsistent publication of those that are collected , it is impossible to quantify with any accuracy just how serious corporate crime is in economic terms . |
| 30 | The essential point is that a conception of justice fulfils its social role provided that citizens equally conscientious and sharing roughly the same beliefs find that , by affirming the framework of deliberation set up by it , they are normally led to a sufficient convergence of opinion . |