Example sentences of "they [be] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of them are wearing spectacles , and one a hearing-aid . |
| 2 | Some of them are given diplomas for doing this , so they can then prove how expert they are in disability matters . |
| 3 | The others move to different premises , where nearly all of them are given degrees three years later . |
| 4 | People have come out on to balconies and some of them are shouting slogans supporting the protests . ’ |
| 5 | Test factors which are either positively related to both the other variables or negatively related to both of them are called enhancer variables . |
| 6 | Well the other letters that are not vowels all the rest of them are called consonants . |
| 7 | In fact some of the them are screaming idiots are n't they ? |
| 8 | The three of them are spending Christmas with us , which will be lovely , but no doubt a bit fraught , as one highly active child will be joined by one ditto kitten , who thinks nothing of leaping on to your lap at mealtimes , digging her claws into your legs for support . |
| 9 | Two other men said to have helped them are giving Crown evidence . |
| 10 | But many of them are failed physicists who found it too hard to invent new theories and so took to writing about the philosophy of physics instead . |
| 11 | The local cockle fishermen resent the newcomers and claim some of them are working beds while also claiming state benefits . |
| 12 | Them are going square and my teeth , all my teeth |
| 13 | And Hotline has been told that some of them are to question McMenemy 's position . |
| 14 | ‘ Had they been bleeding Colonel Swanton or Lord Heptonstall dry ? ’ |
| 15 | However , a £20 million gain from the sale of Weber Aircraft in the US was included in profits allowing Hanson to report an increase — had they been excluded profits would have amounted to £216 million , the bottom of a range of City estimates . |
| 16 | The reply , then , it can be said , does not make use of a feature of effects independent of their being necessitated events , which feature can be used to argue that they are necessitated events . |
| 17 | Customs state that they are to give businesses time to adjust , and the effective date of the new policy will not be until 1 March 1993 . |
| 18 | If they are to give Great Britain a game at Old Trafford on Saturday week , Tony Gordon , Lowe 's successor as New Zealand coach , may have to swallow his pride and call up the likes of Emosi Koloto , Joe Grima and Tony Iro , who appear to have blighted their international chances by making their reputations in England . |
| 19 | Most defendants in capital cases are black and they can not afford legal representation , so they are assigned counsel by the state . |
| 20 | The sperm whales , which are deep sea creatures , have been in Scapa Flow for a month and experts are convinced they are facing starvation and could become stranded . |
| 21 | These are the children who sometimes crack at university level because they are facing challenge for the first time in their lives . ’ |
| 22 | Teenage farm workers are particularly sensitive to their image at an age when they are dating girls who may or may not hope for a better future than that of a farm worker 's wife . |
| 23 | I am heartily sick of reading letters in Points of View from folk whingeing on and on about how nasty the English are and how they are colonising Scotland . |
| 24 | The very short duration of most of the " events " for which they are providing services , and the gaps which occur between these " events " , make it highly appropriate for such organizations to bring in labour on a casual basis . |
| 25 | By concentrating upon the physical consequences , the surgeons are deluding themselves and their patients into believing that they are helping the problem and that they are providing encouragement for the future . |
| 26 | They are reclaiming rock from the strutting , posturing macho Metal peacocks and the fey , fumbling , characterless boys and dragging it down into a cathartic sexual/emotional hell for a slice of long-overdue feminine judgement . |
| 27 | The clubmosses , which created most of the coal seams , are more closely related to ferns than they are to pine trees , and oil — from which most synthetics are obtained — is not derived from plants at all . |
| 28 | When employees receive benefits from the trust , these are unarguably acquired by virtue of employment and give rise to a Schedule E income tax charge , unless they are granted options structured so as to avoid a Schedule E charge on grant ( see s135 Taxes Act ) . |
| 29 | Confidence is particularly important during the development of inventions before they are granted patents because a patent will be refused if details of the invention have been made available to the public , as we shall see . |
| 30 | The mass of working people , as they liberate themselves from the bourgeois yoke , will gravitate irresistibly towards us … provided yesterday 's oppressions do not infringe the long oppressed nation 's highly developed democratic feeling of self-respect and provided they are granted equality in everything . |