Example sentences of "[pron] they [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What do ordinary readers think , when their eyes catch the fact that someone they know is concerned with a police inquiry into crime ? |
| 2 | Well not disappointed that they 'd picked up Marvin Cox because obviously they 're going to need a very strong side if they 're going to win anything so erm you know , with guys like Marvin around , then it 's got to be a good idea , you know , they 've obviously made a big jump there to grab someone they think 's going to make a difference . |
| 3 | In their study of civic culture in 1959 , Almond and Verba repeatedly noted that the better educated in all five countries that they studied were more likely to participate in the political process , and to believe that they could do something to change laws which they felt were unjust through the conventional channels of political participation . |
| 4 | These duties were also listed by the assistants as the ones which they felt were most helpful both to the child and the teacher and were also the ones which they enjoyed most and felt most competent in completing . |
| 5 | As already stressed , the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement and , its mentor , the Communist Party of Great Britain , failed to find the revolutionary spirit which they felt was being dampened and re-channelled by the Labour Party . |
| 6 | This later point reflects the concern voiced by this administration to reduce the ‘ dependency culture ’ which they felt was promoted by universal and ‘ overgenerous ’ state welfare systems . |
| 7 | I repeat , however , my conviction that primary teachers can adapt to the new legislation without abandoning the good practice which they know is right for children . |
| 8 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 9 | That is , people tend to forget either in a motivated way , or accidentally , people will tend to minimise or trivialise the abuse to which they 've been subject in some cases because maybe saying that you 've been sexually abused as a child and that is why you 're so screwed up at the moment um that 's not necessarily a very self-benefiting thing to say . |
| 10 | Some claimed that the powers which they tapped were either from God or from their own subconscious mind . |
| 11 | The type of family and marriage which they operated was not given in the nature of man or in other supernatural and suprahistorical sources , but in the economic and political circumstances of their time , in this case by capitalism . |
| 12 | Lewis and Meredith ( 1988 ) reveal similar tensions and problems although the picture which they draw is less bleak , showing a number of women whose recollections of caring for their mothers are predominantly positive , even if stressful . |
| 13 | A vital thumb print , which they discovered was not Elizabeth 's , has been taken from it . |
| 14 | In Chapter 1 we argued that conscious awareness , the images and representations that people use to communicate with each other and the various forms of deliberate planning and foresight which they use are all partly a result of the myriad social relationships in which they are caught up , and partly a product of deep-rooted instincts and emotions . |
| 15 | In a Commons motion they say they deeply regret the decision to shut the hospital which they argue is a direct result of Government reforms in the National Health Service . |
| 16 | In a Commons motion they say they deeply regret the decision to shut the hospital which they argue is a direct result of Government reforms in the National Health Service . |
| 17 | As Table 9 , below , shows , the response of the public to the exhibitions which they saw was generally favourable . |
| 18 | Erm so the Communist Party , to try to counter this sort of erm advance of the rich peasant economy which they saw was getting a bit too far , tried to encourage the formation of mutual aid teams erm but they were very , there were problems in that in erm the implementation of this because peasants were unwilling to share their tools , they were n't compensated for it . |
| 19 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps they objected to the destruction of Buckingham and the web of deceit to which they 'd been party ? ’ |
| 21 | The sole entertainment in the restaurant to which they went was a violinist ‘ with three strands of henna 'd hair from left to right . ’ |
| 22 | On April 15 a group of doctors threatened to strike against the curfew , which they alleged was preventing them from attending patients . |
| 23 | For example in Mustad v Allcock and Dosen [ 1963 ] 3 All ER 416 it was held that because the appellants had published the information which they alleged was confidential in a patent specification they were not entitled to an injunction restraining the respondents from disclosing that information . |
| 24 | By placing the paragraphs on the node-link-node triples , the traversal of the semantic net and the generation of cohesive linear documents is also facilitated , as paragraphs are invoked only when the two nodes which they connect are simultaneously considered . |
| 25 | However , phonetically , the point at which they converge is further back than that characteristic of older middle-class speakers . |
| 26 | They were not , however , impressed by what they found to be the ‘ superfluous materialism ’ of the Federal Republic which they said was ‘ rather stupid ’ . |
| 27 | The van Meers brought some wine which they said was Australian and the Keiths enjoyed the reminder it gave them of meals on the Mataura . |
| 28 | They produced a file which they said was his and took out of it an indistinct , green photograph of someone carrying a parcel . |
| 29 | After he had reached home , two men in police uniforms had appeared at the door , waved a piece of paper which they said was a warrant for his arrest . |
| 30 | The African National Congress condemned the attack which they said was by shadowy forces , intent on encouraging violence in the volatile black Ciskei homeland . |