Example sentences of "they be [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woody floras of those forests that are surrounded on all sides by arid woodlands consist of species with wide neotropical distributions and many of them are found elsewhere in a wide range of habitats while few are restricted to montane forest . |
| 2 | ( Because they are stumbling backwards over a precipitation of hasty , inside-out clothes , say . ) |
| 3 | Cheddars may be hard or semi-hard ; they are pressed lightly for a matter of hours and then more firmly for a short period of days . |
| 4 | They are disputed only by a sonar depth reading of 297 m , recorded in 1969 ; but we have found no depth over 220 m in the area scanned in 1969 . |
| 5 | It claimed that people feel more in control of their lives if they are inching forward on a journey , rather than waiting for something to happen . |
| 6 | ‘ I wonder ’ , she said , ‘ whether any of you three who know how to spell cat have learned how to read a whole group of words when they are strung together in a sentence ? ’ |
| 7 | After about a dozen movements have been learned , they are strung together in a kata sequence and practised over and over again before going on to the next set of kata movements . |
| 8 | They are seen increasingly as an economic liability . |
| 9 | In a book which was actually about statistics , A. L. Bowley once established four rules to guide designers of schedules and questionnaires.3 They are given below as a starting point for our discussions . |
| 10 | Against this , J.H. Gagnon and William Simon have argued in their book Sexual Conduct that sexuality is subject to ‘ socio-cultural moulding to a degree surpassed by few other forms of human behaviour ’ , and in so arguing they are building both on a century of sex research and on a century of questioning the notion of ‘ natural man ’ . |
| 11 | This is partly to get higher wages , but it is really so because jobs are run-of-the-mill and they are looking simply for a change of venue , a new setting , and new faces . |
| 12 | They want a baby they 're not concerned whether it 's going to have spina-bifida or have som , they are looking forward for a perfect baby . |
| 13 | Work is well on , but they are looking particularly for an Aldis gun sight for the project . |
| 14 | I know any number of indigent dames who have found such employment , and they are treated quite as a member of the family . ’ |
| 15 | We can imagine the formation of such a chemical bond as requiring that a spring be compressed to bring the substances close to one another , at which point they are held together by a catch , as the jack is held in a jack-in-the-box . |
| 16 | At other times during the day they are brought together as a whole group to talk and discuss , to make music and to listen to stories . |
| 17 | ‘ At the most , they are confined only for a century or two . |
| 18 | So , if they are paddocked lower on a hillside , they frequently wear a track with restless pacing along the highest fence — rather than along any other . |
| 19 | Consequently , data which are collected for one particular analysis or processing application are unsuitable where they are required elsewhere for a different purpose . |
| 20 | ‘ They are put forward at a time when industry uncertainty about the result of the current energy policy debate is starting to affect confidence in future investment offshore and halfway through a licensing round when industry application have already been made , ’ a statement said . |
| 21 | When canal boats are taken out of the water for repairs they are winched sideways up a slipway . |
| 22 | So what do parents require if they are to function effectively as a family ? |
| 23 | Thus , even though the 12 member states are following the same rules , they are doing so at a different pace , which further complicates an already complex situation . ’ |
| 24 | Some very basic massage strokes are outlined here , but they are meant only as a guide to enable you to begin to develop your own intuitive style . |
| 25 | Could it be that they are discriminating unfairly against a gipsy family ? |
| 26 | Erm the shot gun is preferable in these cases , the fact that er they are used generally as a support weapon erm should we ent encounter any problems in the area that I was covering , this was thought to be the best weapon capable of doing that job . |
| 27 | If graded tests are widely adopted within a school and if they are used properly as a means of assessing individual pupils ' ability and knowledge , according to their progress along the path of expertise , then the school must be prepared for classes that are grouped vertically , not horizontally . |
| 28 | And why I mention that is that the purpose of these people coming they are commercial they are coming here on a commercial basis . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , people can die before they reach retirement and some of their spouses may have a rude shock when they discover that instead of receiving a huge pension fund , they are entitled only to a return of the premiums . |
| 30 | The universe , in fact , is expanding ( although that 's another talk really ) and for the present purpose the important thing is that they 're moving away at a speed which increases with their distance and so if we can measure the speed that they 're moving away from us , then we can find their distance , and that takes us to the edge of the universe . |