Example sentences of "they 're [vb pp] [adv] to " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Others take my beers even if they 're warned not to — they sometimes put them on the bar without pump clips . ’
2 They 're farmed out to East Peckham or Chertsey for five years . ’
3 Soft-sided cases are more likely to be damaged when they 're stacked up to be transported
4 As for castrating the piglets , it 's done in a second and they 're passed over to their mother without a clue that their whole lifestyle has been changed . ’
5 is , is , in London and we deal with the British Section which is are the particular bits , but the prisoners have to be vatted and looked at and found by the International Secretaires , then they 're passed on to British Section who pass them on to us and a great deal of research goes into making sure that they really are truly prisoners of conscience , that they 've been in prison for some er possibly because of their belief or religion or their race erm and they 've not taken or advocated violence not taken part in or advocated violence and then , then they are full prisoners of conscience erm we maybe allocated them .
6 They 're designed primarily to be fast and powerful and therefore they 're very polluting and in fact , when you look at the engineering and craftsmenship , it could be much more usefully employed making models more fuel efficient and therefore , less polluting .
7 ‘ To witch a mother 's face as they 're read back to her , even though she 's read them for herself … the parent I was sitting with was shaking her head and crying .
8 I it does n't speak very highly if I may say so Group Captain , for R A F discipline if what you 're telling me and telling the committee that you think that pilots should be using this facility , would be using this facility when they 're ordered not to .
9 if they 're told not to or whether they 're allowed to .
10 Chemicals that in the Common Market are not allowed to travel by road , they 're forced on to rail .
11 They all paid a fortune to come on this trip and they 're entitled not to be upset . ’
12 Aldo is highly superstitious about his football boots and if a new pair has n't yielded a goal after only three or four games they 're consigned straight to the dustbin .
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