Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [be] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if people in this state are able to get themselves going as far as applying for jobs and are offered interviews , they fail to get them because the image they put across is one of a lackadaisical , flattened dullard — and who would want to employ someone who 's in that state ? |
| 2 | Understanding how they came about is one of the challenges in this affair . |
| 3 | The idea that they do so is one of the most persistent slimming myths of all . |
| 4 | No , no I 've never been down and er they 've always been full of water whenever I 've been up around there . |
| 5 | Ever since the Mountbatten thing , they 've all been nervous of the publicity . |
| 6 | No , they had n't been aware of anything untoward , not until , much later , the eunuch had come down and searched below deck inch by inch from bows to stern . |
| 7 | They had n't been short of opinions , either , and Dominic Wetherby was now becoming something more than just a name . |
| 8 | The Pensions Act which became law in August 1908 granted a pension of between 1s. and 5s. per week to those over the age of seventy with incomes of between £21 and £31 10s. p.a. , provided that they had not been imprisoned for any offence , including drunkenness , during the ten years preceding their claim , were not aliens or wives of aliens , and could satisfy the pension authority that they had not been guilty of ‘ habitual failure to work according to his ability , opportunity or need , for his own maintenance and that of his legal relatives ’ . |
| 9 | Yet with their rousing cricket , built around the fearsome fast bowling duet of Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis and boosted by an array of dazzling stroke-makers , they have sadly been guilty of abusing opponents , rounding on umpires and blatant dissent . |