Example sentences of "[verb] they be in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those horses , all right , I 'm not denying they 're in bad condition , but I did choose 'em . |
| 2 | Three-quarters of providers were confident that " this unit can take on the competition " and two-thirds believed they were in good shape to do so . |
| 3 | I hope they 're in safe hands . |
| 4 | The children with no-one to protect them are in headlong confrontation with the police . |
| 5 | Ltd. v. B.O.A.C. [ 1955 ] A.C. 169 , 191 , Lord Reid stated that if the arguments are fairly evenly balanced ( not that I believe they are in this case ) , that interpretation should be chosen which involves the least alteration of the existing law . |
| 6 | I do n't think they 're in any rush to develop now , are they cos this housing business is so poor . |
| 7 | Shocked old-guard MPs , who had imagined they were in cushy seats for life , suddenly found Right-Ons dominating their constituency parties with a potent mixture of brow-beating and attrition . |
| 8 | Even though we do n't have major problems with drug or solvent abuse in Northern Ireland , sudden changes in behaviour could mean they are in some kind of trouble . |
| 9 | Oh I am indeed sir , a surgeon to hold they are in great danger |
| 10 | For one uncertain moment she thought they were in each other 's arms , but as they welcomed her warmly , she decided that she had been mistaken . |
| 11 | The skills and expertise required to manage or advise them are in many respects different to those required in a large organization . |
| 12 | About half said they were in stable relationships . |
| 13 | The USSR , as before , remained ready to further its own interests wherever it could , and those interests were not always in agreement with those of Western governments — nor had they been in tsarist times . |
| 14 | there is a consistent air of frustration in the writings of some of the social scientist contributors … it is almost as though they wish they were in closer touch with the operational side of the service . |
| 15 | She denied they were in any sense a new departure and asserted them to be " a very negligible instrument of oppression " . |