Example sentences of "they [vb past] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All they got was the usual complacent , superficial parroting of the empty nonsense about commitments and guarantees . |
| 2 | These files are indexed by the use of BDAM ( Basic Direct Access Method ) and in a typical database of just over 2 Gbytes , which they found was the average size of those they examined , the number of characters in the files comprising the database was as follows : |
| 3 | And every single thing they found was the same . |
| 4 | In his case words and the mental images that they created were the only available means of communication with his people . |
| 5 | The teachers at Howard were given government grants for their work but the money they received was the standard Salvation Army allowance . |
| 6 | Increasingly , skilled counterfeiting has led to some high street stores selling goods they believed were the real thing , only to find they 'd been had . |
| 7 | They were persons who had been brain-washed by years of experience of disengaging from colonies and saw Northern Ireland as another external colony from which Great Britain was destined to disengage in order to hand it back to the natives whom they assumed were the republican Irish of the island as a whole . |
| 8 | Many of the journalists felt they 'd been the innocent victims of a political decision . |
| 9 | Michael , I 've had to work very , very exact my lad and these things I 'd got the sliding gages and put them on and they 'd been the same at the front as they have at the back and that 's the thickness as well . |
| 10 | They had three hundred and seventy three live children between them and on average they should of had twenty seven children with birth defects if they 'd been the same as the rest of the population , the non-criminal , non-prison erm erm erm non-prison population . |
| 11 | His beatification aroused criticism from some Catholics not only because of the relatively short time that had elapsed since his death , but also because of what they claimed was the right-wing content of his views . |
| 12 | The point they selected was the western extremity of the Verdun salient , between the villages of Malancourt and Avocourt , where the front swung south through the tip of the Forest of Hesse . |
| 13 | The target they chose was the Green Room , a club in Wardour Street . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm sure whoever was responsible at the time acted in what they thought was the best interests of the council . ’ |
| 15 | Surprisingly , given the folk image of policemen , on the one occasion when the field-worker accompanied some policemen on court duty , the men expressed a preference for ‘ fair ’ judges and actually criticized what they thought was the excessive penalty imposed by a ‘ hard ’ judge for the offence of throwing an empty can ( FN 9/3/87 , p. 10 ) . |
| 16 | But er he never asked me , put it that way , what I thought was suitable machinery and he , as far as I know he never asked other rock men what they thought was suitable for the rock and other slate makers what they thought was suitable for inside the mill , or the diamond saw operators , what sort of saws they thought were the best . |
| 17 | The Church 's 2,500 bishops and prelates , heads of men 's religious orders ( though not of women 's ! ) , and faculties of some thirty-seven Catholic universities were asked what they thought were the major problems facing the Church . |
| 18 | This final point was illustrated in an experiment ( Gordon , 1983 ) in which two classes of children aged 12 were asked to identify what they thought were the difficult parts of passages from a history textbook . |
| 19 | Or the second model they gave was the special constable either a newly recruited special or a person who is an existing special to work in the in the parish . |
| 20 | Among the things they criticized were the arrogant behaviour of Party leaders , their lenient treatment when misdemeanours came to light , the fact that ‘ the awaited purge in the Party had not taken place ’ , the wringing of money out of the people in constant collections , and the ‘ large , elegant cars ’ in which Party functionaries travelled to and from work . |
| 21 | Many of the predators mentioned in the previous section function equally well as scavengers ( Hewson , 1981 ) , and the modifications they produce are the same as if they had been the primary predators . |
| 22 | When she 'd first moved in she had n't cared about anything , certainly not her surroundings — they had been the least of her problems — and if the villagers had n't so kindly donated her furnishings she 'd probably still be existing in empty rooms . |
| 23 | With Reagan , they had been the chief cause all along . |
| 24 | It is certainly fortunate for us that the numbers are unequal because , if they had been the same , nearly all the quarks and antiquarks would have annihilated each other in the early universe and left a universe filled with radiation but hardly any matter . |
| 25 | Now whether it made a lot of difference or no , I could n't tell you , but they believed it er the set of tools they had were the best in the yard , you know , so obviously they took a wee bit of pride in them and looked after them . |
| 26 | They only possessions they had were the travel-weary clothes they stood up in . |
| 27 | The main drawback of the bankruptcy laws as they stood was the high cost to creditors of realizing the estates of their insolvent debtors — between 30 and 40 per cent of the amount they hoped to recover . |
| 28 | and what they wanted was the easiest ones and they came up with the answer economics Gerald simply , we Ge Gerry and I put our heads together and went bib bib bib bib bib , you know as good parents do and we both presented him with a fait accompli you either take an engineering degree , we do n't care what sort or you go out to work in a bank because economics you will not get a first because you are not reader and t to get a first in economics , which is what you 'll need if you 're gon na make any money out of it |
| 29 | All that they wanted was the full recognition of their king 's sovereign rights in the duchy , a moderate enough approach in which they had the support of the papacy , now becoming increasingly aware of its obligation to help in the diplomatic negotiations between the two countries . |