Example sentences of "they are " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of them is new and they are all straightforward . |
| 2 | Cliff said , ‘ I am pleased to support ACET in the world they are doing . |
| 3 | Those at home often need opiates ( morphine-like medicines ) for pain , while one in five will also need a special battery-operated syringe pump , especially if they are too weak to swallow . |
| 4 | Monday 8.55am — I arrive at the office for what looks like a quiet day catching up on necessary office work and telephoning some of our low-dependency clients to see how they are . |
| 5 | Westminster Hospital , say that Andrew , on of their patients , needs to be admitted but they are unable to find transport as no ambulance is available . |
| 6 | For many a stay in hospital is in appropriate but they are often too weak or ill to care for themselves properly . |
| 7 | When someone is ill with AIDS they are often in pain . |
| 8 | ACET is a church-based organisation whose primary concern is practical care rather than counselling , and so these areas are only covered if they are raised by our clients . |
| 9 | A recent survey of church youth groups shows that 1 in 4 have had sex by the time they are eighteen years old , 1 in 10 under the age of sixteen . |
| 10 | ‘ ACET is working in this field because , like Jesus , they are getting alongside those in need and helping the rest of us to understand and minister to those both infected and affected . ’ |
| 11 | Very often they are pleased to invite ACET in as a church-based agency . |
| 12 | They are initially held in isolation cells for periods lasting as long as several months . |
| 13 | During their isolation , they are reportedly denied access to legal counsel and family visits and are at risk of systematic torture and ill-treatment . |
| 14 | And the prisoners themselves know that they are not alone , that the world has not forgotten them . |
| 15 | AI believes they are held because they opposed the government 's policy towards the Shi'a community . |
| 16 | They are all serving their sentences in Kenitra Central Prison . |
| 17 | They are not due for release until 1992 , and are among some 400 young men held in Greek prisons for their refusal on religious grounds to perform military service . |
| 18 | Tell the President that you have read about their case , that their trial was unfair — even the Appeal Court agrees on this — and ask that they are released immediately . |
| 19 | Ask that they are released immediately . |
| 20 | ‘ they are denied medical care . |
| 21 | They are unshaven , there is no barber . |
| 22 | They are capable of assessing modern art in its own terms , partly from experience gained through judging work of other periods within quite different terms . |
| 23 | Description , interpretation and judgement are the subjects of separate chapters , where they are considered in more detail . |
| 24 | Its daring conception , ideal in the highest sense of the word , is based on the purest truth , and wrought out with the concentrated knowledge of a life , its colour is almost perfect , not one false or morbid hue in any part or line , and so modulated that every square inch of canvas is a perfect composition ; its drawing is as accurate as fearless ; the ship buoyant , bending , and full of motion ; its tones as true as they are wonderful ; and the whole picture dedicated to the most sublime of subjects and impressions … the power , majesty and deathfulness of the open , deep , illimitable sea . |
| 25 | Wölflinn used such terms to distinguish epochs ; they are only partly useful as interpretation , since Wölflinn tended to be more interested in art as an independent phenomenon than as having meaning intended by the artist . |
| 26 | The grand form offered a scale of more or less assimilation to the form hidden in the wood , the surface a scale of textures , on both of which the sculptors played , and they are a source of specific qualities of the genre . |
| 27 | The critic is also likely to spot the gaps in a group show , when the best works are not being shown , say perhaps because they are in private collections . |
| 28 | These may or may not have significance ; what needs to be certain is that descriptions are accurate , for if they are wrong , deductions from them will be valueless . |
| 29 | The first deals with the reasons of the ( apparent ) diminution of objects as they recede from the eye , and is known as Perspective of Diminution : the second contains the way colours vary as they recede from the eye : the third and last explains how objects should appear less distinct in proportion as they are more remote . |
| 30 | They are a reality , whereas the guerrillas are only a dream — phantasmagorical . |