Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [vb base] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that 's a lot of dead people … and innocent people , whichever side they happen to be on . ’ |
| 2 | Since black people in the southern states have suffered more injustices at the hands of the law they tend to be less likely to hand out death sentences . |
| 3 | ‘ As far as I can gather from my limited field work they seem to be produced on every possible and impossible occasion . |
| 4 | This is then the complete fall of the family unit as the two sisters grapple over an issue they believe to be , once more , love but it is merely desire for Edmund . |
| 5 | Strictly speaking not all of the measures within these areas fall within the 1992 programme but given their inter-relationship they need to be looked at together . |
| 6 | When big investors get on the telephone they expect to be put through to the chairman , not ‘ lumbered into a PR-type department ’ . |
| 7 | It is the last place they want to be . |
| 8 | But in order for means to be classified as means in the first place they have to be something that we can utilize . |
| 9 | There 's a lot to be said for the modern falconry centres — anything that helps people to appreciate birds of prey is a good thing as far as I 'm concerned — although it 's a shame they have to be turned into tourist attractions . |
| 10 | Yeah , well , whereas in that , if they they when the recording the demo they have to be together , do n't they . |
| 11 | The engineering contracts say that if disputes are not resolved by the engineer they have to be settled by arbitration . |
| 12 | Although they carry the risk of overemphasizing the subjective and personal make-up of a team they have to be taken into account in any scheme of training . |
| 13 | If adjustments are late at the end of an accounting period they have to be corrected manually causing the work involved in administering the system to increase making it very time consuming for the clerical staff . |
| 14 | so they 're not just making it up out of their heads , it actually , you know , somebody really did a study on this , somebody really put this argument forward erm er partly it 's to , I mean some of the things on those things you ca n't easily get in Aston library anyway , some of the things erm er particularly if they 're references to general , you know , sort of , you know , general bits of the , you know , whatever textbook they seem to be using mostly erm |
| 15 | Almost all of the plankton feeding fish for the aquarium are carnivorous and because their food is comprised of small live zooplankton they tend to be small also , and often shy species . |
| 16 | And whichever sort they happen to be , they always think they 're the first of their kind . |
| 17 | There is an opportunity for agencies to redefine the business they want to be in , and find ways of building business and opportunity in areas once not perceived as part of advertising . ’ |
| 18 | Their models are their own or each others ' motets and chansons and the chansons of such Parisian colleagues as Claudin de Sermisy , and they make fuller use of the whole polyphonic complex of the model than their predecessors had done : how flexibly may be seen by comparing the opening of the Kyrie of Clemens 's already mentioned Mass ‘ Misericorde ’ : with that of his chanson ‘ Misericorde au martir amoureulx ’ : Bars 3–5 of the Kyrie are not the extraneous interpolation they seem to be ; they come from bars 18–20 of the chanson : |
| 19 | Anyone in doubt about the identity of someone collecting for charity should check with the organisation they claim to be with . |
| 20 | Should a statutory liquidity ratio be imposed on the banks , or should the banks be allowed to choose whatever ratio they consider to be prudent ? |
| 21 | ‘ People go to school to learn , ’ he said , ‘ and if they go to school to learn , at the end of the day they have to be marked in such a way that future employers or colleges know what they have achieved . ’ |
| 22 | Some time in the day they need to be sitting quietly on their own . |
| 23 | One of the drawbacks of alluvial sources is that under the pressure of a growing demand they tend to be depleted to a point at which more intensive methods are called for . |
| 24 | 1.13 Because Governments are responsible for the overall management of the economy they have to be concerned with the amount of local authority expenditure , borrowing and taxation . |
| 25 | Reinforcing this pattern may be the fact that girls in class fall into a role they assume to be the natural order , taking second place to boys . |
| 26 | ‘ The brutal truth , however , is that some youngsters are so out of control they have to be detained , but that should be the last resort . ’ |
| 27 | When a concerted and invasive effort has been made to find acid fast rods in sarcoid tissue they seem to be present , and acid fast bacteria without cell walls and tuberculostearic acid have also been isolated from lesions of patients with sarcoidosis . |
| 28 | At least 17 of these ‘ cancer genes ’ have been identified , and in every case they appear to be identical or very similar to normal genes found in the chromosomes of healthy cells . |
| 29 | ( By the way , in case they happen to be reading this , my apologies to Phillip , Mary , Harold and Henry for taking their names in vain ! ) |
| 30 | At present they tend to be treated apart , so that these formulaic lexico-grammatical units are left rather in limbo . |