Example sentences of "[vb base] [subord] they be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 135 ) … raising the temperature of some solid and liquid compounds causes them to decompose into their elements ( or oxidize if they are heated in air ) … |
| 2 | They say if they are barred from Skinnergate and High Row in Darlington it will force them towards the hazardous roundabouts on the inner ring road . |
| 3 | In addition , the clergy appear to have considerable difficulty in recognizing the transformation which theoretical positions on Christian belief and morality undergo as they are concretized in historical human relationships , doubtless also because of the strong essentialist bias in their perception of socio-ethical issues . |
| 4 | Horses nearly always hesitate when they are led into a dark stable at night , even if they know their dinner is ready and waiting for them there . |
| 5 | Millions upon millions of seeds , spores , and similar reproductive bodies are annually scattered abroad in order that species may settle in new stations ; yet millions upon millions perish because they are sown in places where physical conditions or nature of the soil check their development or where other species are stronger . |
| 6 | I do n't stand any nonsense , mind you , they do what I tell them and they speak when they 're spoken to , but they know where they are with me . |
| 7 | They had hardly crossed Birdcage Walk when they were hailed by a cheerful shout and Jerome Mapleton trotted up beside them , rubicund , sweaty-faced , a little out of breath . |
| 8 | It seems to hang threateningly over the village , with massive detached boulders of slate ready to topple if you put a foot wrong , and great heaps of rubble lie where they were detached from the rock face by gunpowder , which was also made in the vicinity . |
| 9 | Did you care to touch upon the fact that fish rarely flourish once they are removed from water ? ’ |
| 10 | But , increasingly , films look like they were designed for the small screen . |
| 11 | The effect of these EDMs is measured by the number of signatures they attract when they are printed on the daily Order paper . |
| 12 | Urban alienation is seen as a risk to the State and some projects succeed because they are sold on this fear that no response could endanger the State 's stability . |
| 13 | There has been a dramatic increase in knee injuries since the '70s , when it was more common to break a leg ; serious knee sprains , probably involving torn ligaments , are at least ten times more likely than broken legs — mainly because bindings now release when they are meant to and boots give greater support to the lower leg and ankle . |
| 14 | Kurecolor Brush Pens can be used from the point or from the side to give a variety of stroke qualities and they flex as they are drawn along the paper surface , adding character to the marks . |
| 15 | Livers fail because of cancer , or hepatitis , or drug overdose , but mostly I suppose because they are assailed by alcohol and just ca n't cope . |
| 16 | I can understand so well what women feel when they are subjected to a male-dominated society — an almost intolerable urge to scream at those smirking , swanking Don Juans who think no woman can resist them . |
| 17 | I 'm having some difficulty working out where fences go because they 're obscured by these twenty foot wide er lines . |
| 18 | TWO little princesses laugh and shout as they are tossed in the air and splash around in the pool with their mother 's handsome friend with the funny accent . |
| 19 | This is not to deny that child abuse is a ‘ factual ’ phenomenon or thing , it is to argue that facts only take the form they do because they are interpreted within given contexts of meaning . |
| 20 | In other words they appear and disappear as they do because they are controlled by a particular sedimentary facies . |
| 21 | We do n't know if any in England that survive although they are described as a folding table of Flanders or a tab tabula plicata which means a a table that folds . |
| 22 | Parents : Help when they 're put to the test Maggie Drummond offers hints on helping children knuckle down at exam time |
| 23 | Griffin gives many further examples : that pets and other tame creatures come when they are called by their names ( this would commend itself to Hearne ) , and that numerous species of birds , mammals , and even some fish and insects , seem to recognise individual members of their own species . |
| 24 | The ideal prisoner is not a human being but an automaton who will respond immediately to orders , eat when they 're told to , work , take exercise , sleep , and in all circumstances be respectful to authority . |
| 25 | In Section 6.1 the covariant derivative is introduced and is found to depend on entities called metric connections which quantify how local vectors change when they are transported through curved space–time . |
| 26 | Yet some writers seem to think that the laws do just that ; and that the quantitative observations encompassed in the laws take us beyond ( subjective ) experience because they are based upon objective measures of physical energy , utilizing scientific instruments . |
| 27 | They work when they are triggered by numerous reflexes situated throughout the body . |
| 28 | Split lips occur when they are caught between your fitted gumshield and the incoming kick . |
| 29 | Sometimes you just want to be left alone , so I understand the violent reactions some celebrities have when they 're infringed upon . |
| 30 | The fear that many teenage mothers have when they are wheeled into the delivery room makes the experience more painful and terrifying than it need be . |