Example sentences of "they [vb base] [be] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Environmental and human rights groups are opposing the involvement of international companies in oil exploration in Burma , which they say is destroying a relatively untouched forest environment and helping to fund a military government with a poor human rights record . |
| 2 | It 's no good preaching sermons to young people about the value of labour if all they do is to guide a piece of metal into a press and tread on a pedal a hundred times a day … |
| 3 | , yes , what they do is say a bloke , one bloke owns quite a bit of that cricket ground , Tesco 's he said , Tesco 's what they sa , they know that he want 's , he 's put the plans in to upgrade all , to get a bigger site somewhere else , for |
| 4 | When you go into hospital the first thing they do is to stick a scalpel or a needle into the burns and if it hurts it 's not that bad . |
| 5 | What they do is to introduce a new element into the concept of responsibility which involves more than free will and reason ; now a third party is present and is an active participant in the language game in which responsibility has a role . |
| 6 | ‘ They 've been gone a good while . ’ |
| 7 | They 've been given a better education , a longer and healthier life and higher expectations , but no future . |
| 8 | And because they 've been given a tantalising series of glimpses of a fuller life , they 're aware and starving . |
| 9 | Martin and Koda plan just as ambitious a schedule of costume exhibitions at their new home — three per year — and they say they 've been given a mandate to do that . |
| 10 | Now they 've been given a derelict school building , gutted by fire , for their new community association . |
| 11 | They 've been given a fortnight to find £8,000 . |
| 12 | I know they 've been pulling a lot out |
| 13 | Let's just consider the political problem though you have still got a problem selling it to a lot of MP s , if they 're listening to this interview and they are concluding , maybe rightly , maybe wrongly , that actually things are n't changing very much , and they may think they 've been sold a pup with these amendments , indeed I hear that some of them have had to be bought off , well , is it true that one of them was sent off to Peru on an on an election er supervision mission in order that he might not be around when the bill came up . |
| 14 | Yeah erm she put , she said Gateway 's th they 've been selling a lot and there is none in Lynn . |
| 15 | They 've been promised a Dickens ' of a time . |
| 16 | At this school in Oxford they 've been running an arts week , helping the children to write their own play and make the scenery . |
| 17 | ‘ We lease the land out to the forestry people , and they 've been doing a helicopter survey . ’ |
| 18 | I I do n't wish to , to quibble but is actually a cost minus basis industry is not being paid its full costs for this programme , they 've been paid a percentage less than the cost they actually incur . |
| 19 | But then , perhaps all chicks get to look like that , when they 've been raped a few thousand times . |
| 20 | They 've been restoring a battered old narrowboat . |
| 21 | Though debt levels could be dramatically reduced through the sale of Pilkington 's Solaglass wing , for which they have been seeking a buyer . |
| 22 | Now they have been given a fresh lease of life , inviting the ( wrong ) conclusion that the need for a further shake-out is past . |
| 23 | Complacency about recession could destroy the Tories yet : they have been given a sharp warning by the electorate and they disregard it at their peril . |
| 24 | Right across Britain they have been given a new lease of life . |
| 25 | In the author 's constituency , for example , there is a company whose main competitor in Germany has been given switchgear free of charge by the local electricity board , and they have been given a twenty-year loan at no interest for generating plant . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , despite the necessity to protect children from being misled by the stories of ‘ heaven ’ and miracles , it should be made quite clear to them that most of the stories of good works attributed to the people involved are most likely to be true , and as these people are believed to have done much more good than most , they have been given a place in the windows of the churches and in paintings and elsewhere . |
| 27 | And they have been given a plastic card to carry itemising the major banned drugs . |
| 28 | The former ought to be more prominently displayed , the article says , so that patients are n't confused about whether they have been given a different type of medicine when collecting subsequent prescriptions . |
| 29 | For many women , it 's the first time they have been given a responsibility of this kind . |
| 30 | They have been given a confidence and liveliness through the influence of a common interpretation of Quantum Theory . |