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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 They are left a few millimetres thick and lapped flat or polished , using a lapping compound with paraffin oil lubricant .
4 We do not object to women working the keyboards , so long as they are paid the same wages as men .
5 They are paid the same as people who can teach brilliantly .
6 The TA bring up the rear , dressed in their lightweight trousers , boots and shirts ; many a member of staff and Regular recruit wishes that they were dressed the same , as the sun is high in the sky and their No 2 dress is somewhat warm .
7 They should have been , as they were given the same rations as a British farm labourer .
8 They were married a few months later .
9 Olive Saunderson and Norman Field met and fell in love in predictably romantic circumstances when the Fields and the Saundersons were guests on board Lord Vestey 's yacht on a cruise to Norway in 1909 They were married the same year in Dublin and returned to England to set up home .
10 After all , they were paid the same sum whether Nigel arrived by Rolls Royce or dustcart .
11 The more they were squeezed the more chrome was exuded , as if from a tube , at each end .
12 They were offered the same curriculum as the rest of the unstreamed class , i.e. they were on course to fail the 11 plus .
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