Example sentences of "they [be] and [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was agreed to leave them as they are and to take no further action . |
| 2 | Here it is only necessary to establish what they are and make a note of them . |
| 3 | What is important is that they are and remain the orientations of most Britons , both at the mass and the elite level . |
| 4 | Therefore the choice is between leaving things as they are and adopting a new definition which is different in substance . |
| 5 | The continents are where they are and have the mountains they have because of the action of the Earth itself ; the eruption of volcanoes and the shifting of plates of the Earth 's crust ( plate tectonics ) . |