Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [conj] they [am/are] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The newly made pots are glazed when they are completely dry and are fired to 1,285° Centigrade in their ‘ top hat ceramic fibre glass kiln ’ which they designed and built .
2 If its research is successful , it should mean the end of mass-produced tomatoes that are tasteless because they are picked before they are fully ripe to prevent wastage during handling .
3 As part of our routine annual review of allocations , we shall continue to consider how best to ensure that funds are targeted where they are most needed .
4 Scuffles are reported but they 're not given the chance to develop into any serious disturbance .
5 Harley MS 6579 and marked by italics : Or further , in chapter forty-six , where Hilton is talking about the word " Iesu " as a means of focusing all the inheritance of life that the recluse desires , he says : These insertions do not add anything new , they simply expand in a particular way what has been said and they are not absolutely consistent in all the manuscripts in which they appear .
6 They claim the animals often suffer from deformities and illnesses , and bitches are shot when they 're no longer able to produce puppies .
7 ( ‘ And their void shields are overlapping because they 're so figging close together !
8 Those admitted to the acute wards with severely uncontrolled diabetes are transferred when they are sufficiently recovered and undergo assessment of their self-management .
9 One Special Branch man said to me : ‘ There is only one other minister who has two police guards and that is Mr Tebbit — but we 're armed and they 're not . ’
10 Yes of course maybe play acting when they 're doing that they 're more conscious of the way they 're speaking and they probably want to make it right with what they think it should be .
11 Er I think what he 's trying to say about the rich peasants is that er that they were always resisting the movement , it was only later on when they find that you know , that they , they need to get involved otherwise their own positions are er threatened then , then they 're joining and they 're only joining but were not actually participating in it , they 're not moving along , and so that 's what , that 's why he 's making a distinction between different types of peasants .
12 So in other words , we 're saying if they 're off sick , erm , they decide to go out and , you know , do something else to earn some money , then they would n't be able to claim under their policy .
13 when when you do that , and obviously the need to gauge the erm presentation against audience contact to see that they 're involved and they 're obviously understanding what you 're saying and pick them up and grab them .
14 Well , they 're trying but they 're not sure whether they will be successful .
15 In some cases , however , collector bias might offset the problems of selective preservation , as the animals that are over-represented because they are easily fossilised then become under-represented because they are less assiduously collected .
16 The firm expects to build well over 2,000 homes in the coming year , and says most are sold before they 're even finished .
17 Other wheels are turning but they are not our concern .
18 The really gigantic spiders are sometimes captured and used as barter , but mostly these enormous creatures are avoided because they are too dangerous .
19 Books and other references sources can be extremely useful and I 've found the staff at most libraries very helpful … that is , once they 've been persuaded that they are not dealing with an imaginative miscreant !
20 It 's nice to be able to walk across the road but I find that people are complaining because they 're not able to park .
21 It would be nice to think that these incidents are isolated but they are not .
22 Some of these children are saying that they are not black or that they do not want to be associated with other black people .
23 The more common it is , the more people will know of others who have been divorced and they are correspondingly less likely to condemn this action .
24 If lifetime employment and seniority wages are seen as key distinguishing characteristics of the Japanese labour market then it has to be recognized that they are far from universal features .
25 The lines of the formerly integrated drainage systems can be traced but they are only used by present-day floods in their upper tracts , so forming a characteristically disintegrated pattern .
26 These exceptional cases apart ( and it must be recalled that they are not really examples of the situation under discussion ) , it has been seen that there is no good ground for arguing that the doctor breaches his duty to his patient when respecting the patient 's wishes to be left to die .
27 The failure finally to secure 18 pubs from Bass , which would have boosted Hoskin 's estate to 29 , must have dented market confidence , a confidence that needs to be regained if they are not to be swallowed by one of the many new thrusting pub retailers actively seeking new acquisitions .
28 It can be added that they are not mysteries , not discontinuities , not small or large miracles , and so on .
29 The analyst is then forced on the defensive , explaining why new features can not be included because they are technically difficult or prohibitively expensive .
30 Sexual problems of the child may stem from any of the above considerations , although it must again be stressed that they are not inevitable .
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