Example sentences of "they [vb base] [am/are] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of areas of difference they highlight are particularly relevant to the public sector — scope and responsibility . |
| 2 | I can only assume that manufacturers who do n't properly configure the machines they sell are either lazy or careless . |
| 3 | Hi-fi salespeople who confuse and infuriate customers with tedious descriptions of the electronic wizardry behind the products they sell are no less guilty of this sin . |
| 4 | For two lexical items A and B we can ask whether the respective classes of entities they denote are identical , disjunct , overlapping , or whether one includes the other . |
| 5 | Though some of the foregoing indicates diversity , the questions they raise are common to all teachers : |
| 6 | The issues that they raise are complex , and procedurally they affect the responsibilities of a large number of bodies , both in Government and outside it . |
| 7 | increasingly I think nowadays people converse in not a foreign language , because the terms that people use are familiar but meanings that they intend are not , and th th th the computer people are the worst because they use ordinary words which mean completely different things in the |
| 8 | By placing the paragraphs on the node-link-node triples , the traversal of the semantic net and the generation of cohesive linear documents is also facilitated , as paragraphs are invoked only when the two nodes which they connect are simultaneously considered . |
| 9 | The gestures they make are at one with their interesting footwork . |
| 10 | They 've got this absolute obsession with not telling the truth , which is bizarre because some of the products they make are actually good . |
| 11 | When people talk , the sounds they make are nothing like written words . |
| 12 | If , as HM Inspectorate argue , the recommendations they make are not binding upon the LEA then this may represent an acceptable blend of central and local control . |
| 13 | If we accept that we can not prevent science and technology from changing our world , we can at least try to ensure that the changes they make are in the right directions . |
| 14 | 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 . ? |
| 15 | The sounds they make are not the same as words . |
| 16 | The decisions that they make are gon na be based on comers commercial considerations , not health , so I 'm sure the doctors wo n't be wo n't be bothered with decisions , Councillor because the accountants will be making them for them . |
| 17 | The screws they make are , are to be there in the body and the parts are in the bodies , but the bits they do n't use come back and then they are put back into stock again . |
| 18 | Brief details of the operative procedures they undergo are provided . |
| 19 | They rarely live in temperatures of less than 25C ( 75F ) and the banks on which they grow are mainly between three and five , and only occasionally more than five , fathoms deep . |
| 20 | The fears that the work could escalate into ‘ genetic engineering ’ , by which all but completely healthy babies would be terminated and parents could virtually plan the child they want are futuristic but increasingly real . |
| 21 | Indeed , one often gets the feeling that these young people have a positive need for a disciplining , controlling and directing father-figure , but that the father-figures they want are not the ones they have . |
| 22 | The relationship between Jacques and his Master is founded on a tacit agreement that the roles they occupy are the reverse of what they appear to be , but when Jacques tries to articulate this he risks losing his power which depends on its going unacknowledged . |
| 23 | Moreover , we may point out that even if corresponding attributive and predicative adjectives ( occurring with the same noun ) could be relied on to share the same referential locus , that would be no justification for leaping to an assertion that the two elements are actually " the same " tout court , and even less for claiming that the structural positions they occupy are alternative forms of each other . |
| 24 | Whatever novelists may believe about the universe , they do not demand of their readers a formal belief in God or the Devil , or in the forces of history , and the tolerances they expect are wide . |
| 25 | The main problems they pose are the excessive patronage they confer on the politicians and officials who establish them and make appointments to them , ‘ their frustration of the implementation of public policies , their financial irresponsibility and their erosion of democratic accountability and control ’ ( Jones , 1982a , p. 924 ) . |
| 26 | My main criticism of the proposals is that the reforms that they suggest are far too complacent and conservative . |
| 27 | The data which they provide are thus not strictly comparable . |
| 28 | These satellites are in geostationary orbit and the images that they provide are used primarily in weather forecasting applications . |
| 29 | That the services they provide are relevant to environmental groups , and in that way to help environmental groups plug in to the kinds of advice on fund raising and er , management and all sorts of other aspects of running a voluntary organisation , which , at the moment , of , er a lot of , er social service organisations plug into , but so many environmental groups . |
| 30 | They have to communicate to their public and explain how the services they provide are of value . |