Example sentences of "[noun pl] they [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The houses were neat and not unpleasing in design , though to Winnie 's eyes they appeared to be built far too close together , and the low wire fences gave no privacy . |
| 2 | It was difficult to tell the passage of time , but when Blake opened his eyes they appeared to be within reach of the rising smoke . |
| 3 | More and more fruits they seemed to be importing in those days , all colours . |
| 4 | The decoders here are just non-linear functions , they 're just binary non-linear functions they happen to be but they 're non-linear . |
| 5 | In other words , airlines are to be able to compete freely , charging fares they judge to be appropriate , so long as these are not predatory and the result of cross-subsidisation . |
| 6 | In other places they seem to be in situ and may be the eroded residuals of reefs built in relation to earlier , higher sea levels . |
| 7 | This is a comprehensive slide collection of illustrators ' work , which is open for clients to visit and from which they can select the illustrators ' work , which is open for clients to visit and from which they can select the illustrators they consider to be most suitable for a particular job . |
| 8 | They should also notify the child , if he is of sufficient understanding , and anyone else whose wishes and feelings they consider to be relevant . |
| 9 | To see the efforts they make to be ladies and gentlemen and the constant strain it puts them under . |
| 10 | On weekdays they tend to be eighteen . |
| 11 | An internal survey by the Association of District Councils ( ADC ) , reported in the journal Housing , has found that many local authorities are having great difficulty in exempting from the Right to Buy those properties they consider to be especially suitable for older people . |
| 12 | The girls were , however , very much alike : wide-eyed , glossy-haired , with a hunch of shoulder and ease of hip that made them all the sisters they longed to be . |
| 13 | In temperate regions they support specially-adapted halophilic ( salt-loving ) species of plants ; in polar regions they tend to be barren . |
| 14 | When parents become involved in sibling arguments they have to be very careful not make the situation worse rather than better . |
| 15 | Many low caste people who had previously been craft workers turned to farm work , and as farmworkers they had to be paid not in the old feudal terms but an amount definitely related to the work they did . |
| 16 | The claspers probably represent the coxites and styles of the 9th segment , though in some cases they seem to be composed only of the styles , the coxites having fused with the sternum . |
| 17 | In many cases they seem to be neither , in that they do not have a direct or specific relationship with the labour market ; nor do they fit into the conventional , specialized academic categories . |
| 18 | It is true that the corrective measures that can be taken do not usually have an immediate response , and that in many cases they appear to be quite small actions , relative to the size of the problem with which you are grappling . |
| 19 | For these reasons they tended to be much less closely associated with the advocacy of specific legal and penal reforms than classical criminology was . |
| 20 | Started at that 's right , yes and er I did and er they put me in the machine shop filing keyhole and Those times they had to be all cast over the rim locks and all that , now they 've made for us and all that . |
| 21 | At other times they have to be ‘ seeded ’ , either by particles of dust or by small crystals dropped in from elsewhere . |
| 22 | In tears they beseeched to be evacuated ; their one terror to be labelled ‘ untransportable ’ . |
| 23 | Until then I had always held the view that police officers do not fabricate evidence against men they know to be innocent , but rather against those whom they genuinely , if mistakenly , believe to be guilty . |
| 24 | Altogether , the Drummond House workforce sip their way 22,000 cuppas each week which means there are so many empties they have to be carted off by lorry at regular intervals . |
| 25 | Also , some corporations , as well as museums , want the exhibitions they sponsor to be reflections of a social conscience , rather than displays of gilded treasures from rarefied European museums . |
| 26 | Most teachers say that they like the parents of the children they teach to be involved in their children 's education , in fact I think nearly all teachers would say that . |
| 27 | Some staff were so angry with protestors they had to be ordered home by managers to end the blockade . |
| 28 | I start with the defendant 's first two points , that is to say , if there are to be side letters they have to be incorporated into the main agreement , and these were not incorporated . |
| 29 | Because I know the scouts do the Tesco one and whenever they are put in these cardboard boxes they have to be sorted so somebody must sort them . |
| 30 | In their press notice No. 762 ( 20 September 1982 ) Customs indicated the criteria they expect to be met when a previously single business is divided : |