Example sentences of "be [conj] they [vb base] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantages of longitudinal studies are that they make it possible to study change over time , though as a series of snapshots rather than as a continuous process . |
| 2 | I 've not been but they say there are . |
| 3 | Once you 've made your call , they might ask you to stay by the phone erm , to contact you back it might be that they ask you did you want anybody contacted to tell them that , that you 've broken down , they will do that for you . |
| 4 | And I wonder if it seems to be that they prefer you come out of the upper drawer than come up with your brilliant A levels or whatever . |
| 5 | ‘ Might it be , I 'm only hazarding a guess , you realize that , but might it be that they want you to get them out here again ? ’ |
| 6 | The answer must be that they have nothing to do with crofting as such , and little to do with agriculture , although there are agricultural problems . |
| 7 | cunt , wonder what that would be if they put it in a dictionary . |
| 8 | When the Minister next meets representatives of the industry , what will his answer be if they tell him that our poultry meat inspection charges are not subsidised , unlike those of our European Community competitors ? |
| 9 | ‘ How long will it be before they give me the all-clear , do you think ? ’ |
| 10 | Alright , th the saying in the paper , they 're talking about stopping these big companies , keeping these little companies waiting there could be something they can do about that , but how long is it going to be before they do something ? |
| 11 | are reasonably senior , and the great thing is once they do you one favour that 's it , and it 's better because rather than have , for example a junior police officer , who has no idea of covering his tracks |
| 12 | We are led to the conclusion that 11a is grammatically but not semantically deviant by the fact that substitutes for bake which normalise the sentence ( e.g. shake , forsake ) , as a class , have no distinctive semantic attributes ( that is to say , members of the class share no characteristic patterns of co-occurrence with other open set elements that differentiate them from non-members ) ; however , they do share a grammatical peculiarity , which is that they form their past participles with — en . |
| 13 | Perhaps a telling comment on this is that a major reason for the recruitment of top , superannuated civil servants into business is that they know their way round the political labyrinth of Whitehall . |
| 14 | Our experience of the average guitarist is that they know what they want and they wo n't be fooled into buying fresh air simply on the strength of a good review ! |
| 15 | The great thing about families is that they keep your feet firmly on the ground — sometimes more firmly than you 'd like . |
| 16 | Quite apart from anything else , the most likely immediate consequence for them is that they lose their jobs . ’ |
| 17 | The importance of these is that they make you think and help you recognise what it is that ‘ makes you tick ’ . |
| 18 | The proof of the pudding is in the eating , and the proof of people skills is that they make it as likely as possible that we achieve our objectives with people . |
| 19 | The only problem with the guides is that they tell you little of the quality of the goods in the shop . |
| 20 | Another problem with aggregates is that they hide their constituent elements . |
| 21 | Or ‘ The trouble with self-made men is that they worship their creator . ’ |
| 22 | To the extent that Europeans know of this Oxbridge dominance , my experience is that they regard it with some satisfaction ( they have generally heard of Oxford and Cambridge ) , but that their satisfaction changes to complacency when they reflect upon what they believe to be the uniquely class-ridden structure of English society . |
| 23 | The same may be true of the Prinias horsemen , but the relief there is rather low , and an alternative is that they turn their eyes on us as guardians of the house : the ‘ terror-mask ’ , a concept we shall meet again . |
| 24 | The danger is that they stop you looking . |
| 25 | Alexei , what my brothers meant to say is that they await your command . |
| 26 | Perhaps the reason for the comic success of such characters is that they help us to recognise the prejudice which exists in all of us at so many different levels about so many different things . |
| 27 | And if some of the material in the book seems occasionally to verge on the utopian , it is worth reminding ourselves that , as Jan Montefiore says in Feminism and Poetry , ‘ the value of utopias is that they enable us to imagine possibilities of difference for the brute contingent world ’ . |
| 28 | The value of concepts and cognitive structures is that they enable us to classify events and to make judgments and ( unlike repertoires of behaviours and lists of facts ) enable us to solve new problems . |
| 29 | The reason for the excitement in using lasers is that they enable us to study unstable nuclei , which was not previously possible . |
| 30 | The other aspect of theories is that they enable us to make generalizations . |