Example sentences of "they [be] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other additions , we did earlier Chair , and that is we have received a mental illness specific grant , erm , on a number of schemes but they have been time limited , and they are due to cease , some of them are due to cease in the coming year . |
| 2 | In the bleak brick corridor that , tonight , the three of them are obliged to call a dressing room , the atmosphere is as buoyant as a funeral . |
| 3 | Well they 've they 've obviously varied and most of them are economic based . |
| 4 | Which occasionally happens , some of them are difficult to get rid of . |
| 5 | I do n't want to be a saint ; some of them are hard to live with , but a sour old woman is one of the crowning works of the devil . |
| 6 | Some of them are reluctant to ask visiting relatives , who may already be doing shopping for them , to run extra errands , such as taking prescriptions to the chemist or clothes to the launderette or dry cleaners , changing their library books and collecting their pension ; so it is always as well to check to make sure that you are meeting these needs , or arranging for someone else to do so . |
| 7 | After all , it is the readers who want to have this closed circle , and most of them are happy to suspend disbelief a little to get it . |
| 8 | And it is also the mechanisms by which the cells or parts of them are able to perform the instructions . |
| 9 | They are able to do a lot of things that former generations could not do ; for instance a lot of them are able to study now in the legal field , become nurses and so on . |
| 10 | Many of them are able to get around independently and , like the rest of use , have every right to enjoy a country walk . |
| 11 | While some of them are able to accept the situation with equanimity and wait for it to pass , others tend to panic and assume that the condition must of necessity be a permanent one . |
| 12 | Certainly if players such as Edberg , involved in the final stages of the Australian Open , felt even remotely like I did after the 31 hours it took me to arrive home from Melbourne before leaving on another seven hour journey to Bayonne less than 24 hours later , then it is no wonder that many of them are unable to do justice either to themselves or their countries in Davis Cup competition , as things stand . |
| 13 | They argued that existing maps and digitized files from them are unable to meet these needs at global or regional scale and only remote sensing could help in the short term : the availability of stereometric data from the French SPOT satellite has already led to proposals for automated creation of global digital elevation models with a spatial ( XY ) resolution of about 30 m ( Muller 1989 ) . |
| 14 | There are 30 prosecutors for the country 's 90 courts ; only five of them are supposed to handle the 17 courts in Guatemala City . |
| 15 | Opinion polls show that many of them are prepared to sacrifice territory to end the conflict . |
| 16 | The only politics which I saw representing them are those organised by tenants and feminists campaigning primarily around housing , health and children . |
| 17 | But where Cluster Analysis can show the existence of sufficiently large groupings of respondents , or product/benefit requirements which have similar attribute sets , then these may be used as MARKETING TARGETS , if the benefits of selling into them are likely to exceed the cost . |
| 18 | Enthusiasm can spur one on to cram the border full of as many herbs as possible , but some of them are likely to die as a result , and others will be tall and weedy ; it is far better to plant with spaces between them to start with , allowing them room to grow to their full size so that their growth habit and leaf value can be made the most of in the context of the overall design . |
| 19 | Many of them are likely to have a great deal more sharp , down-to-earth commonsense than you have . |
| 20 | So all of those people there or most of them are likely to have been on a list that the school have recommended . |
| 21 | Merchandising wholesalers will be approached by HC next , though discussions with them are likely to focus on the level of returns . |
| 22 | Moreover , the effect is likely to be spread across different customers in an uneven fashion ; not all of them are likely to attempt to prolong the credit period permanently in this way . |
| 23 | Er would the factories between them be able to help with that for a spell Er one of the things that I 'm slightly concerned about is if you 've only got old buffers on the stand erm rather than younger people |
| 24 | Or had they been afraid to do so in case it drew attention to what they were up to ? |
| 25 | The American archives suggest that even in 1954 the British would have been somewhat reassured had they been able to eavesdrop on some of the discussions which were taking place in Washington . |
| 26 | Had they been able to put down for a minute our in-depth features on Geraldo , Victor Sylvester and some accordions , they might have seen something half-decent on the box . |
| 27 | Few of Camille 's schoolmates , even had they been able to read and write , would go on to a career in the sciences , since the chemistry lab had been the first to succumb , years back , when the rules had just been relaxed and attitudes to education liberalized . |
| 28 | Much of this written work can be done alone , but some of it is best achieved in collaboration ; it might be that the purpose of the drama is to work together to produce documents , for example : The letters written by the sailors on the Mary Rose as they left port ( had they been able to write ) . |
| 29 | Trapped in the revolving world of afternoon TV , this is a man who would have quite happily recorded the LP from the comfort of his bed had they been able to fit it in the studio . |
| 30 | No doctor having been called , even had they been able to find one willing to attend since one glance would have been more than enough to convince any practitioner of medicine that his fee could not be paid . |