Example sentences of "they be [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference between you and most other women is that not many of them are granted the opportunity to actually indulge their nostalgia , save mentally . |
| 2 | In today 's Washington , where ideology is a murmur of distant guns but technocrats have not quite recovered their old authority , the think-tanks seem at a loss ; many of them are cutting the size of their staffs . |
| 3 | So those who try to dismiss Jesus as being a good teacher , a religious leader , a prophet and no more — all of them are missing the truth . |
| 4 | These questions are being asked now not just by political theorists , although some of them are giving the most considered answers . |
| 5 | Which of them are offering the best value ? |
| 6 | Amongst them are found the last adepts of controlled altered states , out-of-the-body experience , psycho-navigation , environmental wisdom and time-honoured alternative methods of giving birth , healing , living and dying . |
| 7 | Had they been given the time , they 'd 've talked their faces off . |
| 8 | Furthermore , many authorities , had they been given the option , would have chosen to spend more on services . |
| 9 | They had not given the details of the break-in a moment 's thought , so keen had they been to avoid the subject in the course of the evening . |
| 10 | In this way they are exploring the relationship between psychological well-being and issues such as experienced relative poverty , income related stigma , perceived ( non ) entitlements , spending and consumption patterns and attitudes , the domestic division of family economic management , coping strategies and budgeting tactics . |
| 11 | EVERTON must change the habit of a lifetime if they are to arrest the current slide this weekend with a victory at Nottingham Forest , writes Ken Rogers . |
| 12 | Equally I believe that local communities too must feel that the police are to them if they are to give the positive help which the police need to successfully detect and prosecute the criminals who prey on them . |
| 13 | Here people accept the importance of regular exercise but it is not clear if they are translating the message into action . |
| 14 | These , under pressure to increase the returns on their portfolios over very short review periods , turn over their holdings frequently ( known as ‘ churning ’ ) , disposing of a company 's shares on the first sign that they are under-performing the market . |
| 15 | Worse , they are achieving the opposite of what they intend . |
| 16 | ‘ They are searching the Castle ; and they have set a guard on the trapdoor . ’ |
| 17 | They are searching the flat methodically , opening cushions , moving furniture , looking beneath the floor . |
| 18 | Local authorities must be sure they are providing the right care for children , and with increasing pressure on budgets they must know the money is well spent . |
| 19 | Shareware libraries provide you with a program on disk for a ‘ nominal ’ sum — they are providing the program for free , and charging only for the disk , duplicating and administration , all of which includes a small amount of profit , I suppose . |
| 20 | For example , if a researcher wants to investigate the factors that influence pupils when they are choosing the subjects they wish to study at higher levels of education , then group discussions with , for example , fourteen-year-old pupils in almost any secondary school would give some ideas about what questions to include in a questionnaire . |
| 21 | When people are feeling wound up , there are different things that can unleash the barbed remark : another small demand for their attention , a lost key , not being taken seriously enough by the person to whom they are cataloguing the disasters of the day , or TOO MUCH NOISE . |
| 22 | ‘ They need to progress at 10–15 miles a day if they are to reach the pole by Easter , according to plan ’ , she said . |
| 23 | I feel sorry for people that are dumped into a civilisation such as ours and they are taking the sticky end of the stick in these low-rated factories . |
| 24 | Women patients with recurrent vaginal thrush should also have a course of nystatin pessaries while they are taking the nystatin powder . |
| 25 | Students are often uncertain whether they are taking the right kind of notes to help them survive and succeed at college . |
| 26 | They are taking the camera analogy too far . |
| 27 | But they are taking the view that they will only provide the service equipment , that 's the cabling and the installation and what have you , but not the cameras and that it 's again up to the Police Authority to provide the cameras . |
| 28 | Misguidedly they are taking the law into their own hands because they believe the police are not doing their job properly for whatever reason . |
| 29 | Misguidedly they are taking the law into their own hands because they believe the police are not doing their job properly for whatever reason . |
| 30 | one scene is really good , really obviously they are taking the piss out of |