Example sentences of "they are [vb pp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we designed a questionnaire to ask people what they did in their free time , how would we know whether the answers we received gave us a true picture of how they spend that time ; or a picture of what they will say to a researcher when they are asked the question ? |
| 2 | When they are withdrawn the patient may suffer fatigue , headache , depression , weakness , and aches and pains . |
| 3 | To illustrate the type of problems encountered and the extent to which they are overcome the process of forward planning of student numbers is chosen as a test case . |
| 4 | For example , if Newco issues deep discount securities under Sch 4 TA 1988 , no or little interest is paid to the lender , but when they are redeemed the discount element becomes payable ( representing , effectively , rolled-up interest ) . |
| 5 | Our pupils are exposed to many different materials , tools and processes and from the beginning they are taught the importance of the design process . |
| 6 | All services should address relatives ' needs seriously by giving information , ensuring they feel involved and above all by ensuring that they are given the support they need to carry on caring . |
| 7 | There can be little doubt that there are many people in this country who would welcome such a change , as is evidenced by the customers who flock to stores to shop on Sunday when they are given the opportunity to do so ; but it might not be so popular with small retailers who could find it more difficult to open their shops regularly on Sundays to remain competitive with their larger and more powerful rivals . |
| 8 | They are given the opportunity to involve the local chief officer of police in their curriculum planning and they must make an explicit decision about the place of sex education in the curriculum . |
| 9 | Realising these advantages assumes that DHAs do have bargaining leverage over providers , that they do have choices and that they are given the freedom to make them . |
| 10 | They are given the status of goddesses by virtue of their being , in a Swedeoborgian sense , vessels of symbolic love and so they are mystified and removed from the realms of real , whole , sexual beings . |
| 11 | They are given the induction pack and are taken round the home and shown the layout . |
| 12 | Patients are charged 35 per cent off the dentist 's normal private fee for dentures , crowns , bridges or other treatment involving a dental laboratory or they are charged the laboratory costs . |
| 13 | They are called the Use Classes Order and the General Development Order . |
| 14 | They are called the anchor biomorphs . |
| 15 | In being excluded , they are denied the experience of liturgical participation in services as well as a unique form of music education . |
| 16 | Parents are marginalised , not because professionals deliberately exclude them but because they are denied the opportunity to influence how need is conceptualised . |
| 17 | We are concerned about nurse education , which is why we believe that it will be crippling for the NHS and for the nation 's health if , in years to come , we have poorly trained nurses who leave the profession because they are denied the opportunity of advancement and the capacity adequately to treat patients . |
| 18 | If they are told the Home Office is ‘ minded to refuse ’ asylum they can apply for a judicial review . |
| 19 | They are told the language is ‘ too easy ’ . |
| 20 | If they are submerged the river may be deemed in spate . |
| 21 | It seeks to examine the subject matter and methods of local decision-making , the extent of participation by rank and file members when they are afforded the opportunity and the representativeness of the local decision-makers in terms of the views on trade unionism , militancy and political identification of the rank and file members . |
| 22 | But no matter how hard they are worked the population explosion continues . |
| 23 | The dilemma is that if they are enlarged the danger of stepping through them is increased . |
| 24 | But schools should not rely continually on replicas , and when they are used the fact that they are copies should be acknowledged . |
| 25 | Before Christmas they were offered shares ; now they are offered the dole . |
| 26 | Recent surveys find 80% of Americans in favour , though the proportion drops when they are offered the alternative of a life imprisonment that genuinely means for life . |