Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adj] [conj] they [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is most important that they feel good about their work . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , with all their drawbacks , panels are interesting ways of collecting information and it is rather surprising that they have not been used more in academic research where ideas rather than pin-point accuracy of measurement may be the desired goal . |
| 3 | It 's dead sweet so they take it , they feed to others |
| 4 | because they do n't give a specific definition as to what a landlord is or a rich peasant or a middle peasant meant that how that there was a lot of flexibility within that and it 's only later that they have to reissue those two documents on how to analyze the classes which erm which had been published in nineteen thirty which they felt that you know the Party 's moving too far away , but why did n't they do it at the time ? |
| 5 | It 's bad when people talk about you — but it 's much worse when they do n't talk about you . ’ |
| 6 | it 's much easier if they have somebody attached to them |
| 7 | County councils , where they exist , have important strategic functions but except for highways , minerals and waste their role is only advisory and they have no power over whether the district authority grants or refuses consent . |
| 8 | For many older people , income is so low that they have to claim additional means-tested benefits such as income support , housing benefit and community charge ( poll tax ) benefit . |
| 9 | It can be assumed that this will eventually bottom out to include only those children whose handicap is so great that they require constant medical supervision of a highly sophisticated nature . |
| 10 | Which is why it is so impressive when they achieve a balance at the end : it becomes a truly heroic achievement . ’ |
| 11 | If the parents of a mentally handicapped child immediately reject the child on realising that it is handicapped , or find that life with the child is so difficult that they feel unable to cope , it falls upon the state to find an alternative place of residence , in particular on local authorities . |
| 12 | The punishment , as it were , is so severe that they redouble their efforts to avoid encountering it again . |
| 13 | Often , of course , the story is so important that they have to cover it , but it goes against the grain to be sweeping up behind another paper 's scoops . |
| 14 | For mile after mile along the dark beaches , the living tide of horseshoe crabs is so thick that they form a continuous strip , like a causeway of giant cobbles . |
| 15 | Would it be possible to find out what Priscilla 's results were because she 's had a urine test and she 's extremely sore and they 've asked for another urine test , and I 'm |
| 16 | The 1798–9 version of The Prelude ( or the first two books ) may be read at this point , and if the reader finds more to enjoy in the narrative sections this is entirely appropriate since they appear to have been written as separate entities and only later blended into a single poem . |
| 17 | The individuals may function well in different compartments , and while they may have inhabited the same house for 30 years , believing they are together , they may , in fact , not be together as far as their hopes and expectations go , so it is terribly important that they voice these things to their partners . |
| 18 | Working-class children in general were less likely to first learn about sex from parents , and it is less likely that they have positive relationships with their teachers . |
| 19 | The reason why some people take a long time to learn the Technique is because it is much simpler than they think . |
| 20 | Investigations by S. E. Winbolt showed that the first two had small rectangular enclosures of about three acres and these are so like the burgi on Watling Street that it is not impossible that they represent part of the fortified system established by Constantius Chlorus , although the dating evidence indicates an earlier origin . |
| 21 | It is not surprising that they come into conflict , with one side feeling threatened by innovative theory and the other feeling frustrated by established practice . |
| 22 | In arguing against the notion that the family is the origin of society , Marx and Engels reverse what they had argued in their previous writing , but Maine 's version of the argument , which gives priority to private property , is even more opposed to their general position , and so it is not surprising that they reject Maine in favour of Morgan . |
| 23 | Most broilers experience very little stimulation during their seven weeks on the farm and it is not surprising that they find the sudden changes when they are caught and transported extremely frightening . |
| 24 | Amphibians in the wild are food for so many other animals that it is not surprising that they do not always show themselves well even in confinement . |
| 25 | Since officials and clerks are not allowed to express their real feelings at work , it is not surprising that they have difficulty tolerating the feelings of their customers . |
| 26 | That is not surprising if they stand to lose large amounts of money through personal guarantees they may have given . |
| 27 | The result is of that is not fortunate that they 've been delayed but that in fact we have as much money to spend on them next year from the capital receipts as we will have spent this year , so in a sense we , we 're not going backwards there either . |
| 28 | Data on admission to hospital is not comprehensive but they suggest that admission rates rise with declining social class . |
| 29 | That coins were minted in the names of bishops and churches is clear , but it is not certain that they mark an encroachment into a royal preserve . |
| 30 | It is not fortuitous that they follow the railway lines from Petrograd and Moscow . |