Example sentences of "[vb base] be [verb] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still to come tonight , the British ducks that face being shot because they 're endangering the survival of another species . |
| 2 | No one wants to know how my character study of Mark Antony 's going , whether I 've vacuumed under my bed , what videos I 've been watching while they were out , how many lengths I 've swum without a break , whether I 'm telling the truth or lies . |
| 3 | THEY 'VE been framed but they wo n't be winning any prizes from Jeremy Beadle . |
| 4 | and you may find that they 've been done and they 'll be posted to your branch so they will be there when you get back on Monday . |
| 5 | They 've been retyped and they 've been called erm , procedures . |
| 6 | Erm , you know , if they 're sitting there in water and they 've been peeled and they 're ready to cook , they wo n't be cooked until they 're needed to be cooked , you know . |
| 7 | None of these tenants have access to any tools or materials , and in some cases they 've been told that they 'll have to pay for the repair work . |
| 8 | Books and other references sources can be extremely useful and I 've found the staff at most libraries very helpful … that is , once they 've been persuaded that they are not dealing with an imaginative miscreant ! |
| 9 | No , I 've been saying they booked me about two months ago and I 've been saying that they have a deposit |
| 10 | Most graduates move away from the town where they 've been studying when they start work , so may be looking to transfer their bank account to a more convenient branch . |
| 11 | But what happens to those families when they 've been housed and they gradually improve their position , do we send our officers down and say ah , you 've got some money in the bank now , you 're not in need , get out of this council house we 're gon na give it to somebody else . |
| 12 | Women usually venture their views on child care in order to be assured that they are right ; they fiercely resent being told that they are wrong . |
| 13 | Shop owners have been warned that they could face jail sentences if they sell second-hand furniture filled with a highly dangerous type of foam . |
| 14 | Fitness fanatics have been warned that they could seriously injure themselves if they join in the latest health craze without proper preparation . |
| 15 | Good Evening : Six hundred travellers ' vehicles heading for Stonehenge for the Summer Solstice have been banned from there , so farmers here have been warned that they 're looking for an alternative location . |
| 16 | Railway tickets have been collected since they were first produced . |
| 17 | The basic definition of ‘ development ’ being so wide , a substantial number of activities or changes have been arranged so they do not in fact need specific consent . |
| 18 | Otherwise elegant and beautiful theories have been rejected because they do n't agree with observation , but I do n't know of any major theory that has been advanced just on the basis of experiment . |
| 19 | The manufacturers have been alerted and they 're working on the problem . ’ |
| 20 | Many of them have had their terms and conditions reduced , some have been dismissed and they now have no one to turn to as they have turned their back on the Trade Union which is their only guarantee of protection ’ . |
| 21 | Sports centres with excellent pitches and pools have been built but they have either been under used or more often patronized by groups who already had a high participation ratio , especially adult male car-owners . |
| 22 | Ten special telephone lines installed to deal with enquiries about the Nottingham based Trust have been jammed since they were switched on this morning . |
| 23 | Special telephone lines installed to deal with enquiries about the Nottingham based Trust , have been jammed since they were switched on this morning . |
| 24 | As many as eleven thousand people have been killed because they refused to break their eggs at the smaller end . |
| 25 | Some of the people who complain most bitterly about the community charge are those who discover after their homes have been repossessed that they must pay the charge not only on their new property — because it is imposed on the individual — but on the property which they lost , and which they thought was now the responsibility of the building society . |
| 26 | Leaves are much hardier and will stand any amount of bad treatment , but having said that do n't try pressing damaged or nibbled leaves in the hope that they will look better once they have been pressed because they wo n't ! |
| 27 | Some of the country 's top wheelchair tennis players have been proving that they can still serve up top-class sporting action . |
| 28 | Recently tips have been shaped as they are made , so their later landscaping is easier and they are less intrusive in their early years . |
| 29 | The above examples of culturally defined behaviour have been selected because they differ considerably from behaviour patterns in Western society . |
| 30 | It is only during this century that statutory services have been developed and they came in a very piecemeal fashion . |