Example sentences of "they [verb] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Almost all the information they gain is given freely and with the tacit or blind approval of Western governments . |
| 3 | Some of the characters they met are portrayed by Minton in the book . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The answer they devised is called Compact Disc Interactive ( CD-I ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | I 'm a fool , she thought tearfully , knowing the very last vestiges of the shaky companionship they shared were gone for good . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ? |
| 12 | Well you see they 've been brainwashed to that sort of music so they 're bound to , bound to like it . |
| 13 | The Beach-heads hear they 've been cursed by a Swells SOTW |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This process whereby financial intermediaries lend for longer periods of time than they borrow is known as maturity transformation . |
| 16 | Brief details of the operative procedures they undergo are provided . |
| 17 | The institutions and arrangements they built were driven by an idea of multilateralism . |
| 18 | Engels believed that the ‘ callous , narrow-minded and conceited ’ Junkers had learned from the French Revolution that the system they maintained was doomed , but in reality the Junkers crushed the rising and insisted on ‘ service ’ until an agricultural review had been conducted in 1865 — after which they abandoned serfdom with great reluctance . |
| 19 | These essays , say the publisher , intend to challenge the view that Kollwitz ‘ reputation relies on the ‘ social content of her work ’ ; a notion which they suggest is perpetuated ‘ often at the expense of her remarkable artistic skills ’ . |
| 20 | Furthermore , almost all of the residential care they supply is provided under contract to local authority social services departments . |
| 21 | An important aspect of Piaget 's approach is his claim that , since children the world over are very similar physiologically and neurologically , and since the world they explore is regulated by the same laws of nature , progress , in terms of their ability to make sense of the world , will be broadly consistent across all children . |
| 22 | ‘ Close to the 50th anniversary of the glorious Dambusters raid it is marvellous to be on the site where the bombs they used were developed , ’ he said . |
| 23 | These satellites are in geostationary orbit and the images that they provide are used primarily in weather forecasting applications . |
| 24 | The organisers hope their movement , which they say is supported by many Muslim organisations , will persuade the Government to order an inquiry into the Rushdie affair . |
| 25 | ‘ Richmond 's complaint is based on what they say was shown up by the video . |
| 26 | They oil was discovered in Kuwait . |
| 27 | After starting with a general description of deformation , relations between the forces involved and the deformations they cause are derived . |
| 28 | Any commission they receive is added to the money being put in the scheme or plan so benefiting the client . |
| 29 | Accordingly , the ideologies they adopted were divorced from reality . |
| 30 | The drafter should ensure that he/she has all the information necessary to decide if those matters are relevant to the client 's needs , and , if so , how they hould be dealt with . |