Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] they [am/are] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 As part of our routine annual review of allocations , we shall continue to consider how best to ensure that funds are targeted where they are most needed .
2 But there are other causes of bad conditions as well as overcrowding : many prisons are old and decaying , and the newer prisons have often turned out to be so badly designed that they are not a noticeable improvement .
3 Although Prime Ministers may from time to time use words which suggest that they are not unwilling to exercise their power of appointment , in recent times there is no direct evidence that they have done so .
4 The functional characteristics of these two strong promoters suggest that they are not optimized for a tight and stable RNA polymerase binding .
5 One would expect such issues to be handled in the training , both pre- and in-service , of all teachers , but our collective experiences and the responses received to the main LITE questionnaire suggest that they are not .
6 However , Interactionists suggest that they are less frequently and vigorously applied .
7 Nor do his choral forces always suggest that they are home in the idiom .
8 Mortality statistics , too , are not restricted to the unemployed : how do we know that they are not indicating greater health problems in the population as a whole during times of economic difficulty ?
9 " The Ingard board must know that they are nearly at the end of the road .
10 I work amongst the elderly and I do know that they are very shy about telling people just how poor they are .
11 If it is accepted that we are in possession of logically adequate criteria of particular-identification , I do not see how one could deny that such criteria are ever fulfilled ; for how else would we know that they are indeed adequate ?
12 This is , this is where Deborah will then go back , this is , comes into your three hour training so you wo n't have this problem cos they 'll all have been , they 'll all know that they 're just talking about certain things .
13 The glasses are in number four , they 've all been provided but they just Whether they do n't know that they 're there .
14 They include , to give just a few examples , realizing that they have re-read the same page of a book three times without taking any of it in ; nearly getting knocked over crossing the road ; yelling ‘ Tie ! ’ at a pupil they do n't know ; noticing that they are both reading a magazine and watching the television while having their evening meal ; spotting the line of empty wine bottles that has accrued since the weekend .
15 And DM shoes — I do n't wear them , but a lot of my friends do , and you ca n't help noticing that they 're much better made than the shoes for girls , they last so much longer .
16 Sexual problems of the child may stem from any of the above considerations , although it must again be stressed that they are not inevitable .
17 Visitors are respectfully reminded that they are not permitted to feed any of the animals , this would spoil their carefully balanced diet .
18 Above all , to what extent can clinicians be persuaded to accept that they are financially and managerially accountable for their decisions ?
19 You did ask a question earlier on and I think the the erm behind the question was the suggestion that erm the Local Authority Councillors we have on the governing bodies are a terrible interfering lot of bigots erm and erm surprisingly you might like to know that they 're not really .
20 He says that he would not get on so well with her if he had his meals with her , but as he lives quite separately they are very friendly and he likes to know that they are near if he wants company . ’
21 Children in the ‘ top ’ set for mathematics quickly come to know that they are more capable than those in the ‘ bottom ’ set .
22 There is obviously something wrong with a portrayal of children as totally lacking in reason until they leap out of bed on their tenth birthday announcing that they are now able to act on principle .
23 Consider the facts : there are about 3,000 architects in Scotland ; workloads have declined by as much as 60 per cent ; and some firms report that they are only half the size they were just two years ago .
24 While seeking to understand the opposition , the buyers should recognise that they are probably their own most formidable adversaries .
25 This means that they will recognise that they are not intended to commit themselves to all of the implicatures they had derived .
26 Tt well if somebody 's desperate that they want to pinch that they 're quite welcome to it .
27 He has refused , so far , to bring the Moroccan troops home , but has issued a pamphlet explaining that they are not under allied command , and will not attack Iraq .
28 The Soviet Union has reclassified three army divisions , all with heavy equipment , as naval forces , and has claimed that they are thereby excluded from the terms of the treaty : a trick the West calls cheating .
29 It can be added that they are not mysteries , not discontinuities , not small or large miracles , and so on .
30 Individuals paying less than £2,400 a year in free-standing AVCs will not normally need to involve their employer but just have to certify that they are not paying more than 15 per cent of their earnings in total contributions .
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