Example sentences of "they [am/are] [adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the Guardian 's case they are fortunate to have such high reserves . ’ |
| 2 | If they are fortunate to have enough money , where are they to find out that that helpline exists and obtain the numbers ? |
| 3 | Under Russian law , they are obliged to convert half their declared foreign-currency earnings into roubles . |
| 4 | They are obliged to believe all that we tell them ’ . |
| 5 | The mail system is also used to inform users when they are due to perform some administrative tasks , such as assessing proposed changes or endorsing SSRs . |
| 6 | Except for those few unhappy souls who have so lost their emotional capacities that they are grateful to have all choice removed from their lives , each person who hears the prison door clang feels a desolation at being cut off from the life of the world and from those they love . |
| 7 | They are right to say that . |
| 8 | The quality of these troops varies considerably , and although they are all brave some are better equipped than others . |
| 9 | If people want to better themselves , they are entitled to enjoy this sort of instruction : it should not be denied them in a civilised society . |
| 10 | They are entitled to do that in a free European democracy , but we are entitled to hold our ground and to argue that we as a nation were never committed to a united states of Europe in 1973 , that we are not committed to it now and that we do not intend to pre-empt that decision . |
| 11 | It should be noted that material subject to legal privilege can never be seized but it appears that if the police chance upon evidence for which a warrant from a circuit judge is required , they are entitled to seize this by virtue of section 19 . |
| 12 | They are entitled to expect all the necessary encouragement , and legal and material support from the Government . |
| 13 | Dolphins will also come to the defence of each other in fighting off an attacker or threat , and they are ready to extend these forms of rescue to humans in distress . |
| 14 | Of course some of those who are really willing to take 36s. rather than leave the market without selling , will not show at once that they are ready to accept that price . |
| 15 | They are prone to accumulate more nutrient than is good for them ; and , of course , they tend also to accumulate toxins . |
| 16 | These items usually become immediately available to all manufacturers so that they are unlikely to give any single guitar an edge over its rivals . |
| 17 | It is unlikely but I have seen er er one or two advertised in the er but but they will they are unlikely to put that on their list because they would n't think about it . |
| 18 | Unless working-class children are given linguistic means of control over the disciplines of the curriculum , and situations in the outside world , they are unlikely to stand much chance of being upwardly mobile . |
| 19 | Equally , common law remedies are riddled with so many complexities that they are unlikely to exercise much deterrent effect on conglomerate entities operating behind Chinese Walls . |
| 20 | And therefore they are unlikely to damage any othgr child . ’ |
| 21 | They are unlikely to influence those farmers — such as agribusinessmen — who react most readily , and most exclusively , to financial incentives ; and these are usually precisely those farmers who wreak the greatest landscape change . |
| 22 | ‘ We wo n't know the precise composition of their side until we arrive in Scotland tonight but while they are unlikely to parade any big name players , England have tremendous strength in depth ’ , said Mavis today . |
| 23 | But they are unlikely to have much of an appetite this morning . |
| 24 | Even though glowing reports of fund raising efforts will have some public relations spin-off they are unlikely to overcome any serious doubts the local community might have about the school . |
| 25 | Small scale research suggests that when children are relieved of the burden of hand-writing and hand-rewriting stories they are able to give more attention to structure and composition . |
| 26 | Finally , there is another aim which relates to both Sections A and B , and which none of the models has taken seriously enough : 7. help pupils to learn how to cope with controversy , complexity , confusion , and uncertainty within a safe environment , so that they are able to manage these unavoidable aspects of life without trying to resort to premature certainty , dogmatism or exclusivism . |
| 27 | IT IS extremely appropriate that this superlative exhibition of the work of 21 British book illustrators should come to Gateshead Library since they are able to display many of the books themselves ex-stock . |
| 28 | Presumably they acquire this knowledge when the tide is high and they can swim from one basin to another , and they are able to translate that information into a mental picture of their entire territory . |
| 29 | They are able to persuade all but the most recalcitrant of patients to resume eating . |
| 30 | We might hold that our beliefs about our sensory states are always justified to some degree just because of their subject matter ( non-inferentially , therefore ) , whereas most other beliefs are justified inferentially if at all ; one could suppose this in an attempt to make sense of the empiricist idea that our beliefs about our present experience have a stability which other beliefs lack , in virtue of which they are able to justify those other beliefs and thus meet the empiricist demand ( vaguely expressed here ) that all our knowledge be grounded in our experience . |