Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] they [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are foreigners and they appear to be drinking . |
| 2 | Such units are sentence-like in that they are syntactically combined sequences of words but they seem to be stored in the mind ready for use as preformed unitary items , like words , already assembled for immediate access . |
| 3 | ‘ She 's got these gaps and they have to be worked at . |
| 4 | I could n't get to sleep , and I noticed in the air there was a red light flashing , and several other green lights flashing , and they were coming , helicopter noises , and er I watched them for several minutes and they seemed to be landing and one was stationary in the air , without moving , and rest were going up and down . |
| 5 | There are a number of companies dealing with media only and represented by The Association of Media Independents but they tend to be highly specialised and are unlikely to take any inexperienced person . |
| 6 | So we 've major problems and they need to be taken up . |
| 7 | ‘ I keep trying to drown my sorrows but they appear to be marginally more buoyant than expanded polystyrene . ’ |
| 8 | Other authors list a larger number of viewpoints but they seem to be relatively minor variants on these three . |
| 9 | A number of factors are conspiring against the South Africans and they profess to be having real problems with the heat and humidity , exacerbated by the fact that Trinidad is experiencing its highest temperatures for a year with bushfires bright in the hills around the Port of Spain area . |
| 10 | You know this whole of idea of things and ritual being the holy and that things in the ritual there yes , there are sacred symbols and they need to be handled in that , that , that sense of sacredness , but the that which makes them sacred is the person , our Lord and us in communion with him and with each other and it seems to me that wherever that happens there is sacrament . |
| 11 | Life was hell for unsuccessful acts ; not only did the performers have to put up with heckling and catcalls but they had to be agile enough to duck the rotten eggs and fruit thrown by a disgruntled audience . |
| 12 | And I mean I think women tend to be inv having to cope with things like school and er and health and you know they 're a at the grass roots if you like of you know at the receiving end of you know say cuts in in services like that and bus services and just quality of rural life and I mean the quality of life in Blaenau is depopulation and unemployment and you know and and in a sense there is lot of scope for women to break down the barriers of you know cos it is true that the the Councillors they 're supposed to represent the people or whatever tend to be quite well to do they 've done it thank you very much and then oh you know they 've got the time on their hands and they tend to be men and s school ex school teachers ex You know and they 're not having to cope with really situations that go will put them in touch with what it 's like not to have a bus service or not to have proper health care and this sort of thing you know . |
| 13 | ‘ In Stratford in particular , there is a hard core that hate anglers and they seem to be able to sway the rest of the council at voting time . |
| 14 | But she survived and she lived and brought her children and they left to be in England again . |
| 15 | Did did they have to wear lots of Do you remember your aunties or your your mother Did they have to lots of layers of clothes or they seem to be . |
| 16 | I think other people are finding it difficult , but it 's mostly boys and they tend to be more practical and keep calmer about it and also not worry about it , which does help . |
| 17 | Young people observe that decisions are made by others and they learn to be controlled . |
| 18 | Furthermore they behave like words in that they are always used together in appropriate contexts and they appear to be represented as words in the mental lexicon ( Wilson , 1984 ) . |
| 19 | Electors may have conservative instincts but they need to be helped if they are to trust those instincts . |