Example sentences of "the [noun] they [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parents were outraged ; the managers had got the opportunity they had been waiting for . |
| 2 | Both the external images of apartness and the usefulness of the attitudes they represented were considered questionable . |
| 3 | By the time Iran had attacked a Kuwaiti , a Saudi and then a Liberian tanker ( the last of these caught near the principal Saudi terminal at Ras Tanura ) , the GCC states had begun to recognize this sequence — as it was doubtless intended — as a signal to distance themselves from Iraq in the light of the support they had been providing for Baghdad . |
| 4 | ‘ Teenagers are much maligned but the support they gave was tremendous , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Patients presenting with clinical evidence of gastrointestinal haemorrhage were endoscoped urgently , the source of bleeding identified , and appropriate treatment instituted including endoscopic sclerotherapy irrespective of which arm of the trial they had been randomised to . |
| 6 | Accordingly , the ideologies they adopted were divorced from reality . |
| 7 | The teachers at Howard were given government grants for their work but the money they received was the standard Salvation Army allowance . |
| 8 | We chucked their livers into a large barrel fastened to the mast ; these were sold for cod-liver oil and the money they fetched was the perquisite of the crew . |
| 9 | Taxpayers , ratepayers , policy makers and administrators all demanded information about the way in which the money they provided was being spent . |
| 10 | When he visited Ottery in August 1793 his brothers reluctantly agreed to help him ; but some of the money they supplied was frittered away on the journey back to Cambridge , and when he got there he discovered a host of forgotten debts . |
| 11 | Neither their range nor their alignment being of more than average accuracy , the damage they did was haphazard but promising . |
| 12 | It was the Russians they 'd been listening to the whole lot . |
| 13 | 82% of the respondents thought that cultural preparation for working overseas was necessary and important and 54% stated that the preparation they received was adequate , while 36% thought it was inadequate . |
| 14 | ‘ Close to the 50th anniversary of the glorious Dambusters raid it is marvellous to be on the site where the bombs they used were developed , ’ he said . |
| 15 | In his ward at the Waterloo they 'd been allowed to smoke for an hour a day . |
| 16 | Trundling along the lane they entered was a line of galvanized garbage trucks , empty and snaking on their rounds to collect the day 's debris . |
| 17 | Mordecai had said that he usually approached the shop through the bazaar , and that was the side they had been watching . |
| 18 | The classroom was the warehouse they 'd been in before . |
| 19 | All the seats had been taken , but once Myeloski had waved his warrant-card at the ticket-desk they had been given seats . |
| 20 | Once again there was a flurry of bodies from the doorway they had been defending and another charge . |
| 21 | Ants of knowledge were pick-pick-picking at her brain , fighting their way in , and she had no defences against them , but the data they brought were swirled and fragmented pixels that frightened her with their strangeness . |
| 22 | If their bodies had not been quite crushed to death by the labours they had been forced to perform for their Egyptian taskmasters , then surely their spirits had been . |
| 23 | As the Canadian railway companies experimented for a distinctive national style , it is perhaps not surprising that they turned to French models , although the styles they adopted were often filtered through the United States . |
| 24 | The funds they manipulated were substantially other people 's . |
| 25 | It seems the piece they took was holding up a window sash . |
| 26 | No one was jumping for joy because they 'd finally got the piece they 'd been searching for for years . |
| 27 | Maybe this was the break they had been waiting for . |
| 28 | They argue that support acted as an antecedent protective factor , but as their data was not longitudinal , the relationships they found are open to alternative explanations . |
| 29 | Writers and the books they produced were of the same type , full of antiquarian information and the archaic vocabulary that went with it . |
| 30 | The methods they used were were the same tactical methods |