Example sentences of "they [verb] be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experience of rehabilitation centres is that people who come to them having been conscientiously cheerful since the day of their loss , who have never wept or allowed themselves to enter fully into the pain of their loss , find it much more difficult to acquire new skills . |
| 2 | They were protected from enemies by their isolation and the land they cultivated was boundlessly fertile . |
| 3 | The knowledge they gain is often fascinating in its own right , but economic and social historians believe that an understanding of past change is also vital in helping us to understand today 's society . |
| 4 | And it was good whisky they got was too new made you see . |
| 5 | Two of areas of difference they highlight are particularly relevant to the public sector — scope and responsibility . |
| 6 | I can only assume that manufacturers who do n't properly configure the machines they sell are either lazy or careless . |
| 7 | The funds they manipulated were substantially other people 's . |
| 8 | Watching people you hardly know getting progressively drunk in front of your eyes while you soberly and precisely monitor the way they change is unexpectedly disturbing . |
| 9 | But where they and the study immediately differed was where , as , group finance director at John Menzies , said , it ‘ set off on a diverging track ’ from what they perceive is already best practice albeit only among the major companies . |
| 10 | Californians have a reputation for latching on to fads , and it 's true — yet a lot of what they preach is eminently sensible . |
| 11 | However , the number they make is very model-dependent , so that agreement with observation is hardly a confirmation of the grand unified theories . |
| 12 | They 've got this absolute obsession with not telling the truth , which is bizarre because some of the products they make are actually good . |
| 13 | Of all the hedges I 've seen they 've been about eighteen two foot , about that far apart |
| 14 | As their expectations of her ability began to match her developmental level they stopped being so irritable and anxious with her . |
| 15 | So long as the traveller historians and geographers , such as Herodotus and Pliny the Elder , Chau Ju-Kwa and Ibn Batuta , Friar Odoric and Marco Polo , are writing as eye-witness observers , most of what they report is entirely factual and authentic . |
| 16 | The proportion who had considered any type of credit other than the one they used was only 6 per cent of this sample . |
| 17 | Solutions they say are as complex as the causes . |
| 18 | The couple decided to visit Gregory , who they say was very apologetic about it all . |
| 19 | Firms or individuals holding such personal data on living people are required to register with the Data Protection Registrar unless the information they hold is only involved in preparing the text of documents . |
| 20 | In the more seasonal forests , hummingbirds may be migratory , but in all forests they tend to breed at the time when the flowers on which they depend are most abundant , though as with the thrips and the Shorea species , there is some staggering of flowering times and avoidance of competition for pollinators between plants . |
| 21 | Many other dangers exist and the disorders which result can be just as harmful to the vine , but the risk of their occurrence is less and the vigneron 's ability to contain the damage they cause is much greater . |
| 22 | In their study of civic culture in 1959 , Almond and Verba repeatedly noted that the better educated in all five countries that they studied were more likely to participate in the political process , and to believe that they could do something to change laws which they felt were unjust through the conventional channels of political participation . |
| 23 | The requirement that there be a real possibility of a breach of the peace before they act is rarely subject to close judicial scrutiny . |
| 24 | Their addresses were well received and the publicity they attracted was so beneficial that the BDA in 1976 , by way of follow-up , paid for a lecture tour by Dr. David Denton , another American educationist , whose public meetings in Edinburgh , Glasgow , Carlisle , Newcastle , Doncaster and Oxford were a sell-out and an outstanding success . |
| 25 | Whether workfare would provide other factors they identified is less certain . |
| 26 | Even if they 'd been half full it would have been our only escape route . ’ |
| 27 | Of course , the sad truth behind the break-up of many young couples ' marriages was just that — they 'd been too young . |
| 28 | They 'd been too lifelike , while too still . |
| 29 | Remember the Philippine jailer , he cried out there to the apostle Paul who was , er in jail there with Silas they , they 'd been that tremendous earthquake , and they were released , all their fetters was was were broken , and the prisoners were all , could all have escaped ! |
| 30 | They 'd no idea why they 'd been so sick . |