Example sentences of "they [verb] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Efforts to help them have been hampered by a crippling shortage of transport and medicine . |
| 32 | On Aug. 17 a gunman killed two off-duty civil guards in the Basque town of Oyarzun , bringing to 622 the total of apparent ETA victims in 1992 , 18 of them having been killed in the period January to March . |
| 33 | There was a minimum of 22 active groups in the County at the end of our fieldwork , most of them having been established during the lifetime of the CMHTs . |
| 34 | Yet three years earlier , at the important siege of nearby Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte , the French had used thirty-two cannons , gunstones for them having been conveyed there in carts and by packhorse . |
| 35 | Nor , for that matter , are they all able to make first-hand experiments with teaching style , some of them having been promoted out of contact with the pupils . |
| 36 | One of the bestselling lines this year has been juggling balls , hundreds of them having been purchased . |
| 37 | ‘ Right-offs should really be totally destroyed by insurance companies , but a lot of them end being bought for repair . ’ |
| 38 | Whatever the reticence of archaeologists on the matter — perhaps they fear being thought fanciful by their academic colleagues — excavations have begun to confirm the details in legends and myths . |
| 39 | Almost all the information they gain is given freely and with the tacit or blind approval of Western governments . |
| 40 | Some of the characters they met are portrayed by Minton in the book . |
| 41 | Officers employed in northern Europe , where much of the navy was inevitably disposed , had little patronage at their disposal , and what they got was obtained only after a battle with the Board of Admiralty . |
| 42 | he believes that the issues have been oversimplified and that , for example , caterers should start thinking hard about how the food they sell is produced . |
| 43 | The answer they devised is called Compact Disc Interactive ( CD-I ) . |
| 44 | Yes , there have been some very vigorous objections made by local residents , and that is particularly why the application that preceded this one was refused planning permission because er the objections they made were considered to be well founded by the Planning Committee and supported many of their views . |
| 45 | The issue they raise is charged with the heaviest moral and political overtones : did de Gaulle at any point give the go-ahead for Operation Resurrection ? |
| 46 | The volume of material they produced was staggering . |
| 47 | I 'm a fool , she thought tearfully , knowing the very last vestiges of the shaky companionship they shared were gone for good . |
| 48 | The most startling illustration of how things can stay the same while they change is found in one of Stein-am-Rhein 's many excellent restaurants . |
| 49 | When the majority of athletes begin to take vitamin supplements the most basic mistake they make is to take too many without considering which is going to help them most . |
| 50 | And the adaptations they make are made on several different levels erm they might become more alike in their language , in their pronunciation , their rate of speech , their pause or utterance length and their vocal intensities . ? |
| 51 | The decisions that they make are gon na be based on comers commercial considerations , not health , so I 'm sure the doctors wo n't be wo n't be bothered with decisions , Councillor because the accountants will be making them for them . |
| 52 | Well you see they 've been brainwashed to that sort of music so they 're bound to , bound to like it . |
| 53 | P.P.S I see they 've been feeding Mark H on the raw meat again : - ) ) ) How did ‘ Antiscum United ’ go on over the weekend by the way ? ? |
| 54 | The Beach-heads hear they 've been cursed by a Swells SOTW |
| 55 | I do n't they 've been doing anything to me yet okay . |
| 56 | Perhaps they would tell us , if they were allowed to spend more , where do they think the funds come from , and who do they think 's going to pay ? |
| 57 | What did they think was going to happen after the last British troops evacuated the Canal Zone on 13 June 1956 ? |
| 58 | Peter Nutting , who led the association of Outhwaite members to a succesful settlement , said he sympathised with Gooda Walker names , but ‘ if the names were not going to pay these calls , who did they think was going to pay them ? ’ |
| 59 | He realized that his last chance was to make his captors believe that Donna knew where the book they sought was hidden , whatever it was . |
| 60 | This process whereby financial intermediaries lend for longer periods of time than they borrow is known as maturity transformation . |