Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] they be [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heat the oil in a large casserole dish , add the meatballs and cook for 5–6 mins , or until they are evenly browned , turning them over frequently . |
| 2 | Most crucial of all , the royal couple themselves , with their thin permeable skins , will die if the atmosphere gets so hot and dry that they lose their body fluids or if they are badly chilled , and this may mean the end of the whole colony . |
| 3 | In other experiments , Papi has shown that pigeons do not home accurately if their nostrils are blocked , or if their olfactory nerve is cut , or if they are experimentally distracted by a strong smell ; but other experimenters have failed to repeat these results and it has proved impossible to train pigeons to make the relevant olfactory distinctions ( which is a standard , and powerful , method of testing for sensory abilities — p. 43 . |
| 4 | Or if they 're well grown , use a rake to collect them together for composting . |
| 5 | If all the chambers were as long as this , or if they were only used by people who had gone down deep into them , then his search would take months . |
| 6 | If the citizens of modern London are more productive in a material , measurable sense than those of ancient Athens , it is not because more of them are educated or because they are better educated . |
| 7 | One of the questions which must be answered is whether these do indeed show the predominant influence of Jamaican Creole or whether they are better described in terms of some other variety . |
| 8 | It does not appear to matter whether the learners are particularly interested in this input , or what they actually do with it , or whether they are actively engaged in achieving purposeful outcomes . |
| 9 | Since the good faith and honesty of the protesters were admitted by all concerned , this seemed to bring them within the statutory defence regardless of whether their beliefs were reasonable or whether they were universally held . |
| 10 | It was not clear whether the two latest bombs had been set to go off on Friday , like one discovered and defused on Sunday , or whether they were freshly planted . |
| 11 | They like to tangle their victims ' hair into elflocks , or as they are also called , tangle locks , or mare 's braids . |
| 12 | Aphids , or as they are commonly called , greenfly ( and not uncommonly blackfly ) , are given a fair description and discussion in question number 1 ( see page 123 ) . |
| 13 | The V1 bombs or doodlebugs , or as they were later called the ‘ Bob Hope ’ bombs . |
| 14 | He may know the difference between a tractor which works and one which does not , but he can not know how many tractors are required , what sort of tractors to build , and where they are most needed . |
| 15 | Motorists , please remember that cyclists ( and pedestrians ) are road users too and that they are easily hurt . |
| 16 | Make sure that all pictures leaving the Press Office are properly captioned ( see Chapter 3 ) and that they are well protected . |
| 17 | We must ensure that the security forces are the real defenders of human rights and freedom from fear and violence , and that they are clearly seen to be so . |
| 18 | But Lévi-Strauss is arguing that kinship systems serve a similar discursive role and that they are similarly constructed out of units of meaning . |
| 19 | This presupposes that pieces are not too long and that they are properly rehearsed set-pieces rather than the meaningless meanderings which too often pass for improvisation . |
| 20 | By insisting on the arbitrariness and narrowness of gender roles , and that they are socially ascribed rather than naturally given , Orton expresses a central motif in the sexual politics of that time . |
| 21 | In 1974 , Fidel Castro said , in his closing speech to the Second Congress of the FMC , ‘ We live in a socialist country , we made our revolution sixteen years ago , but can we really say that Cuban women have in practice gained equal rights with men and that they are fully integrated into Cuban society ? ’ |
| 22 | Note that overflow records arise singly , however the prime data area is formatted , and that they are usually stored singly in indexed sequential files ( but see discussion of VSAM on p. 266 ) . |
| 23 | Some of these ideas are , that girls are more , social , and ‘ suggestible ’ than boys ; that they have lower achievement motivation and self-esteem ; that they are better at rote learning and repetition , and worse at higher-level cognitive tasks , involving responses inhibition and analysis ; that they are more ‘ auditory ’ and less ‘ visual ’ ; and that they are more affected by heredity and less by environment . |
| 24 | We must ensure that the territorials have a much more satisfactory and satisfying role in the future and that those who wish to make themselves available in such an emergency have that offer taken up and that they are readily called upon in such times of emergency . |
| 25 | This outcome is dependent upon the level of competition being sufficient to ensure that firms are constrained to making normal profits , and that they are therefore forced to reduce price when costs are lowered . |
| 26 | In Nasonia it has further been shown that condensation of chromosomes derived from the sperm is abnormal and that they are often fragmented in incompatible crosses . |
| 27 | But this type of information presupposes that the recipients have the necessary vision and can read , and that they are sufficiently orientated to understand what they are reading . |
| 28 | On their first film together , I Walk Alone , in 1947. they both complained to their producer Hal B Wallis , who had them under contract , that they hated their roles , and that they were grossly underpaid . |
| 29 | But none of this alters the fact that when she died there were more serfs in Russia than ever before and that they were worse treated than under any of her predecessors . |
| 30 | But not so much I think er with a lot of henhouses and that they were better battened down I think after the first year . |