Example sentences of "they be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , I am tired of hearing from experts that so many of the world 's problems are insoluble : poverty , malnutrition , pollution , road accidents , bureaucracy , illiteracy , inflation … there are literally hundreds of such problems , and most of them are getting worse . |
| 2 | In fact over two million people in the UK have the disease , but only a quarter of them are getting any treatment . |
| 3 | The governing body of the agency is the board of directors consisting of eleven members , all appointed by parliament , but five of them are appointed pursuant to the recommendation of the following bodies , namely : the organizations dealing with the environment , one by the trade unions , one by the employers ' organization , one by Social Security , and one by the various organizations presently dealing with state assets . |
| 4 | Well see Carole and them are bringing that back tonight at her erm his son is gon na come back and then |
| 5 | Most of them are riding high on a feeling that all politicians and most of the media now put the environment at or near the top of the political agenda . |
| 6 | The situation with non-US tuna vessels is far worse , as most of them are operating free of any regulations whatsoever . |
| 7 | Sorry One of the other tables you 've got shows you a comparison between the elements which are present in crustal rock and in the sea and from that you can see which ones are a good reflection , I E whi which elements have been transferred to the sea by direct weathering , and which of them are undergoing other processes , either other sources or other sinks . |
| 8 | All those are practical methods , all of them are working , and all of them are delivering better health care and will deliver faster health care . |
| 9 | These three big creatures dominate the composition , but around them are introduced small figures . |
| 10 | Some of them are missing six years and their families do not know if they are alive . ’ |
| 11 | Much to mummy and daddy 's despair , none of them are showing any inclination to . |
| 12 | Again the stone walls are dark and streaked with rain and age , and along them are ranged carved figures , many badly worn and now almost unrecognizable . |
| 13 | Actually , not one of its members is a day over 50 ( although all of them are coming close ) but you might reasonably have expected age to leave Daltrey , Townshend , and Entwistle looking worse than well-travelled . |
| 14 | Negative , extremist , in them are fused sectarian party orthodoxy and individual self-deliverance . |
| 15 | A lot of them are having nervous breakdowns or sort of ruining their family life because |
| 16 | Many of them are having more babies . |
| 17 | A lot of them are studying other things besides Italian and so they take time off to prepare for exams . |
| 18 | Nor does the Chancellor demand free elections for East Germans immediately , his aides say , but would first like to see them be given greater personal freedom and basic human rights . |
| 19 | A group of residents in an old peoples ' home may between them be confronting many occasions of loss and death ; the handling of these matters requires sensitivity too . |
| 20 | Would the other , these other enquiries you made , would the major part of them be asking other police officers or is there any other way of getting information ? |
| 21 | Had they been born 15 years earlier , Tumbleweed would probably wear loon pants and big belts and be called something like Satan 's Spaceship . |
| 22 | Had they been discussing any other evening he would not have been nearly so competent but the murder pinpointed the day . |
| 23 | Neither had they been given extra hay the night before . |
| 24 | Virginia Bottomley , a health minister , said many of the 3,000 people sleeping rough in the city might have stayed at home had they been given enough attention earlier . |
| 25 | What they might have heard however , had they been passing ten minutes later , even above the noise of the traffic and the raging of the wind , was a roar of someone in pain , a great and agonizing cry . |
| 26 | Have they been getting any ? |
| 27 | Indeed , had they been defending British farmers , particularly , those producing lamb , they would have achieved only a load of jelly — and red at that . |
| 28 | That said , the Scottish backs have also been looking extremely sharp all year , and it would have been a criminal offence had they been left starved of passes . |
| 29 | Rarely had they been left alone together for any length of time , but one thing now seemed certain . |
| 30 | What have they been doing all this time ? ’ |