Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] they [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laughter is the same language the world over , and the sense of pride and group identity which is engendered when a group tells another about who it is and where they came from is a critical factor in the cementation of the group and fostering of indigenous skills . |
| 2 | All of the sample of Rowdies were able to plot very accurately where they had stood on the terraces over the last few years , who they had been with , and where they expected to be in the future . |
| 3 | It is at this point , where the routines become more closely aligned with the self and where they appear to be dealing reasonably successfully with the ever-present problem of control , that the habit becomes hard to break and that threats to it will be resisted . |
| 4 | Whales and dolphins are largely carnivorous , but feed mostly on much smaller creatures — fish , lobsters , krill , plankton and so on , depending upon the species and where they happen to be in the world 's oceans . |
| 5 | I feel that these difficulties have gone on too long for there to be a realistic prospect of change in time for these children and given their improvement whilst in foster care , where they are not brought up in their parents ' conflict , it is not in the children 's interests for them to go and live with the father and that they need to be placed in an environment with permanent substitute parents , who can meet the boys ' physical , emotional , educational and social needs . |
| 6 | Does he agree that the schools in Bradford provide a perfectly good technical education and that they need to be built on and improved , rather than being attacked by diverting public funds into city technology colleges ? |
| 7 | This growth and specialization mean that more and more people must be found to staff the hospitals , clinics and rehabilitation units , and that they have to be trained . |
| 8 | None the less , it is clear both that they are substantial and that they have to be offset against any putative gains in efficiency brought about by the internal market . |
| 9 | Why is it not possible to suppose that the initial data from which we start to learn the language are less than solid , and that they stand to be revised , reassessed and maybe abandoned in the light of what happens later ? |
| 10 | Apparently Naud has discovered that there about ‘ 1700 semi-mounted ploughs sold in the UK ’ , presumably annually , and that they wanted to be a big part of that market . |
| 11 | They suffer from the drawback that warping can leave open gaps in the cladding ( waney-edged boards are particularly prone to this because of the way they are sawn ) , and so they tend to be used more on out-buildings than on house exteriors , except as feature panels . |
| 12 | The only problem with the theory , from the point of view of a journalist , is that agents — as opinionated and informed as anyone in the trade — are rightly jealous of their relationships with editors and publishers , and so they refuse to be quoted on anything critical . |
| 13 | The argument that structures of such scale and uniformity must be the work of the Danish monarchy is difficult to resist , and so they have to be added to the features at Jelling , the renewal of the Danevirke , and the bridge at Ravning , as evidence of a burst of building activity under Harald Bluetooth all the more remarkable because quite without parallel in the history of the Danish monarchy in the Viking Age . |
| 14 | One by one the Parsons ' former friends and acquaintances found reasons not to accept our invitations , and although they claimed to be anxious that we should ‘ get together some time ’ , that time never came . |
| 15 | I realised that men in politics had dominated world attitudes for long enough and although they claimed to be experts on everything , my experience showed that they understood very little . |
| 16 | ‘ Those Albanians who want to look towards Belgrade I welcome them and if they want to be in Albania I 'll help them back there . ’ |
| 17 | And if they have to be ruled by politicians , voters prefer Labour leader John Smith . |
| 18 | The others were very successful and if they continue to be successful it would be nice to hold them regularly , would n't it ? |
| 19 | ‘ We buy 50 to 60 cars a year , and if they prove to be as good as they are at the moment at the end of the year I think we could be in the market again for more diesels . |
| 20 | Yeah , or somebody 's changed and cos they say to be or not to be does n't fit in as well where it is and it should of been |
| 21 | I taped Louise and and they had to be . |
| 22 | Because these books continue to exist , and because they continue to be read , the tradition continues . |
| 23 | It will be interesting to see how discussions over ‘ efficiency ’ in schools develop and whether they appear to be useful ! |
| 24 | So far as the acquiring company is concerned , the shares transferred to it are acquired at their actual value at the time of transfer , so that that forms the base value if and when they come to be disposed of . |
| 25 | But before that , it is possible , using the sources revealed by the 1910 dispute , to put together a sort of group portrait of the women compositors , as they were in 1910 , and as they continued to be over the coming years . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't mean lucky that your mother and father died , but if they had to was n't it great you did n't go somewhere awful ? ’ |
| 27 | But but they have to be jokes . |
| 28 | It was pointed out during the workshop that women have always been flexible in terms of employment , but because they have to be rather than because they want to be . |
| 29 | But as they waited to be escorted by police from Waterloo to the concert , they were confronted by a crowd of anti-Nazi protesters . |