Example sentences of "they [verb] are [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the characters they met are portrayed by Minton in the book . |
| 2 | And the adaptations they make are made on several different levels erm they might become more alike in their language , in their pronunciation , their rate of speech , their pause or utterance length and their vocal intensities . ? |
| 3 | Even when they apply themselves to understanding the effects of social relations on individual cognition , as with work on social identity and social representations , the patterns they describe are assumed to be based on universal properties of the human mind . |
| 4 | The criteria they imply are summarized in Fig. 7.2 . |
| 5 | Resistance to linguistic change is related to the way people think of language as a fixed point in the flux of experience , and cling to the certainties they feel are embodied in language . |
| 6 | The numbers of consultations , home visits and night calls reported for those in such homes for a year or more before they died are compared with those for others under the care of a general practitioner in Table 4 . |
| 7 | This contrasts with non-historians for whom the data they use are generated from the very start of the research process , either via questionnaire or some other survey method , with computer analyses in view . |
| 8 | Because they are designed to justify certain propositions , the questions they ask are formulated in such a way as to prompt the desired answers . |
| 9 | Any surplus votes they had are re-allocated to the candidate who gets the second preference . |
| 10 | If a volume is accepted by the user and verified by the HC VERIFIER , the asterisk is removed , but if a volume is rejected by the user the modules they contain are removed from the Location file . |
| 11 | She suggests that the ‘ subjective , intuitive , emotional ’ ( 1986 : 29 ) methods they defend are rejected by psychology because they are associated , not with lack of scientific rigour , but with femininity . |