Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] they [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first sight these symbols look very formidable , but with a little practice they can be mastered and understood . |
| 2 | The association has agreed to meet this expense but it will be pointed out to the Youth Club that if they are responsible for any further damage they will be required to provide the cash . |
| 3 | Most people are accustomed to follow linguistic rules more or less slavishly , but in this case they would be glad to change if only someone gave them a new set of clear rules to follow ( an earlier work by Miller and Swift was subtitled ‘ New Language in New Times ’ : it seems they take the optimistic view that we are living in a postfeminist world ) . |
| 4 | The following paragraphs pointed out that in unlimited competitions , although successful competitors can reasonably expect to be employed , the Government can not bind itself to employ them , but in this case they should be employed on the new Foreign Office . |
| 5 | Twenty-four potential corporals are approaching the climax of their Corporals ' course , and this afternoon they will be tackling the practical command tasks Which are designed to test their leadership skills and their ability to solve practical problems . |
| 6 | No she answered me , she said well I have n't got time to sit down , explain it to them , they just got ta , if they 're in a high level they should be able to grasp it and I |
| 7 | Because EPS files are stored with an accompanying bitmap they must be transferred in binary format and , owing to the screen problems , may only appear as a grey rectangle on the PC . |
| 8 | Linguistic phenomena may be equivalent in the sense that at one level of coding they may be different , but at another level they may be the same . |
| 9 | Parents would not see their children for most of the day , and when they finished their daily work they would be too tired for much except rest . |
| 10 | ‘ She 'll have the curtains drawn , ’ said Preston , who suspected it was another commandment they 'd be breaking , even if he had n't specifically been told about it . |
| 11 | When stones like the Koh-i-Noor came into British ownership they would be re-cut to the rosette or brilliant pattern even at the cost of a considerable reduction in weight . |
| 12 | Evolutionary theory gave a natural origin to human institutions instead of the supernatural origin which was the received and legally sanctioned view in much of nineteenth-century Europe , and if institutions and ideas had a natural historical origin they could be changed in changing conditions . |
| 13 | Fish , meat and cheese pastes do not combine successfully with vol-au-vent cases , pastry or biscuits , but in sandwiches or spread on fingers of coarse brown bread they will be greeted as a blessed change from sticky canapes and messy dips . |
| 14 | If they leave during this period they will be entitled to redundancy pay provided that the industrial tribunal considers their leaving was reasonable or the job at the new location was unsuitable . |
| 15 | Perhaps this evening they might be able to sort out the details . |
| 16 | These issues are discussed later in greater detail , but even at this point they must be raised and current policies and machinery for assessment and selection set alongside those for curriculum planning and development described earlier in this chapter . |
| 17 | • After several days on this schedule they will be going to bed and getting up at their chosen time , one that gives them enough sleep during the weekdays . |
| 18 | The police believe we drive too fast and at a special motor racing exhibition later this week they 'll be demonstrating how to handle modern , high performance cars . |
| 19 | This week they will be advertising for one or two extra staff and anticipate moving to bigger premises by the end of the summer , if business continues to boom at the same rate , possibly in the Manningtree area . |
| 20 | And to fulfil this role they must be seen as independent of the society they help to constitute . |
| 21 | In this sense they can be described as policy decisions . |
| 22 | Children often want to protect other people and for this reason they may be reluctant to ask questions . |
| 23 | At zero six hundred hours the following morning Captain Trentham gave them a full briefing : they were to be transported by ship to Boulogne , they learned , and after ten days ' further training they would be expected to march on to Etaples , where they would join their regiment under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Danvers Hamilton DSO , who , they were assured , was preparing for a massive assault on the German defences . |
| 24 | This summer they will be holding 48 events throughout the city which members of the public can join in . |
| 25 | The physical implementation and application areas of microcomputers are thus different from mainstream computers , but at the instruction set level which we discuss in this book they can be treated as variations on the central Von Neumann model . |
| 26 | In this book they will be firmly treated as biological objects . |
| 27 | By providing them with detailed information they should be less likely to offer impractical advice . |
| 28 | Although the use of vertical elevations or sectional drawings is rare in leases there is no reason why they should not be used ; and where the property overhangs or interlocks with another property they may be the only practical or readily comprehensible way of describing it . |
| 29 | In rare cases where components differ in some way they will be pleased to give additional support . |
| 30 | If they were not washed in this way they would be a danger to their neighbours on returning to ordinary secular activities . |