Example sentences of "[noun pl] they [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's not just the animals they 're cruel to . |
| 2 | They fanned out , their feet far stealthier on the undergrowth of smooth-skinned roots and tumbled vines than the animals they were used to stalking . |
| 3 | Derry with two drummers and four fluters and a bass drummer and no it 's the truth supposed to have er cut down the size of the and for triangles they 're supposed to be er cut right to two spoons . |
| 4 | People use the word ‘ stress ’ to refer to both the external pressures and demands they are subject to , and the effects that such stressful circumstances have on their performance , feelings and health . |
| 5 | In frontier areas they are critical to our ability to win access . |
| 6 | In some areas they were able to further the cause of reform through their positions on the bench of justices . |
| 7 | At the end of their lives they are subject to hard copying , and the only thing which remains on-line is a record of the fact that they existed and the reference into the hard copy system for long term reference . |
| 8 | If patients being treated with monoamine oxidase inhibitors ate quantities of cheese or other foods rich in these amines they were prone to attacks of high blood pressure , sometimes sufficient to precipitate strokes or heart failure . |
| 9 | Where these opportunities are ignored by domestic companies they are likely to be exploited by those from overseas . |
| 10 | It would appear from investigations that this government in nineteen eighty four did a deal with the E E C to close down shipyards in future years , for which they received millions of pounds from E E C funds , and they never used them for the purposes they were supposed to be used for . |
| 11 | People were tiring of old-style ‘ workerist ’ ultra-left politics and standing at factory gates being laughed at by the very workers they were supposed to be leading to the new Jerusalem . |
| 12 | It 's no secret that those guerrilla bands contain a fair proportion of characters who are just as undesirable as the dictatorial governments they 're supposed to be fighting and who would have no hesitation in disposing of those $60,000 missiles , at a fraction of their cost , to any passing terrorists who , in turn , would have no hesitation in loosing off one of those missiles at a passing Boeing 747 , preferably one packed with five hundred American citizens . |
| 13 | The report said army intelligence officers started spying on black Americans out of fears they were susceptible to being influenced by German agents in the First World War , then by Communist and Japanese agents and opponents of the Vietnam War . |
| 14 | It 's just that we have n't got any resistance to the kind of germs they 're used to . |
| 15 | Unless preference shareholders are expressly granted participating rights they are unlikely to be entitled to share in any way in the ‘ equity ’ or to have voting rights except in narrowly prescribed circumstances . |
| 16 | But if the cultural materialists , unlike the more fastidious new historicists , cheerfully ignore the theoretical consequences of Foucault 's work for many Marxist concepts , in other ways they are closer to him insofar as they make clear in their work their own political priorities and commitments . |
| 17 | Sex is a sensitive barometer of stress for many people : they lose interest , their bodies stop responding in the ways they are supposed to , or they find themselves feeling unusually ( and perhaps embarrassingly ) sexual . |
| 18 | It may be that there is literally nothing they can say about it in the terms they are accustomed to using . |
| 19 | This year everyone working for BT was sent a letter telling them the redundancy terms they were entitled to if they decided to leave the company voluntarily . |
| 20 | Many doctors were only marginally better informed than the patients they were supposed to be treating . |
| 21 | Are individual Japanese so decidedly group orientated by cultural tradition or is it that ‘ in many cases they are loyal to their groups because it pays to be loyal ’ ( Befu 1977 p. 87 ) ? |
| 22 | Ants make fearsome enemies , but as friends they are second to none . |
| 23 | Koontz , O'Donnell and Weihrich formulate the principle that ‘ since people tend to follow those whom they see as a means of satisfying their own personal goals , the more managers understand what motivates their subordinates and how these motivations operate , and the more they reflect this understanding in carrying out their managerial actions , the more effective leaders they are likely to be . ’ |
| 24 | Being Normans , they had spent the winter in relative cheerfulness , bedding women , hunting , and exploring those parts of the country unknown to them , in the absence of the winter wars they were accustomed to . |
| 25 | Senses rioted , coherent thought fled , and for mindless seconds they were oblivious to the world about them . |
| 26 | Having a baby usually means not being able to have a job as well so most young mothers have to make do with the various state benefits they are entitled to . |
| 27 | ( Presenter ) Many elderly people have paid into pensions etc for years , is n't it their right to have all the benefits they 're entitled to ? |
| 28 | THE Citizens ' Advice Bureaux today said that not enough people were getting social-security benefits they were entitled to , worsening poverty in the province . |
| 29 | Too often pupils are put off by material which is dull , linguistically unsuitable , and which bears little resemblance to the colourful storybooks they are used to . |
| 30 | Indeed , one of Dunleavy 's key themes is the central role of state professionals and bureaucracies defending their own material positions , if necessary at the expense of the public services they are supposed to be providing . |