Example sentences of "they [verb] is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general approach which they make is extremely varied , from being quite clandestine to being rather pushy. 1 think the more senior one becomes , the more serious any headhunting approach becomes . |
| 2 | No , what they want is perfectly expressed in the simple banner held up during the Leipzig demonstrations : ‘ Freiheit ! ! ! ’ |
| 3 | In practice agents do not , or even perhaps could not , have complete and consistent preferences , partly because what they want is often affected by what they believe , and they do not , or could not , have perfect information . |
| 4 | They boss is just gon na keep sending messages until one finally gets through . |
| 5 | If the lumps are tumours , these are rarely infectious , and the reason why they appear is poorly understood . |
| 6 | The breakdown of trust which they effect is graphically represented by Shakespeare , first by the way in which the king 's sons , fleeing the country , are suspected to have been his killers ; second , in the scene where Macduff , who has finally fled Scotland ( his wife and children are murdered by Macbeth in his absence ) , is confronted and tested by Malcolm . |
| 7 | The alternative they say is just stick to four star . |
| 8 | We will introduce legislation designed to give consumers confidence that what they purchase is properly described — and that adequate compensation is offered where these requirements are not met . |
| 9 | The prior evidence to which they refer is largely work on ‘ flashbulb memories ’ ( e.g. Brown & Kulik , 1977 ) which will be discussed later in the chapter . |
| 10 | ‘ People ought to be able to decide whether they want to take risks on the basis of information which gives them an idea of how much risk there is , ’ says Helen Peggs , ‘ but at the moment the information they get is often distorted . ’ |
| 11 | The trouble with book titles like this is that the optimism they inspire is fast eroded by the guilt-making subtitle ; in this case ‘ How you can change your lifestyle now … ’ |
| 12 | These stories also serve to give to the part-time reserve police a self-respect which they feel is otherwise lacking from an organization which undervalues and marginalizes them . |
| 13 | Some of the compound loss that they feel is therefore balanced out . |
| 14 | Anglers are to challenge Yorkshire Water at a public hearing today over plans to abstract half the 10 million gallon flow of the river Hull , which they claim is already running dangerously low . |
| 15 | Sleeping tablets are not recommended , partly because the kind of sleep that they induce is not thought to include the dream sleep that our bodies and minds urgently need . |
| 16 | Yeah you do and all they do is just move a couple of things about . |
| 17 | In a book called Problems with badgers ? , the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals acknowledges that badgers are a nuisance for farmers , but suggests the damage they do is often exaggerated . |
| 18 | What they said is not recorded , but memory has supplied subsequent writers with various versions . |
| 19 | In very general terms , Marxist theorists look for the location of power in the wider social and economic structure of society There is continuing debate within Marxism over the exact role that the state ( or political level ) fulfils and whether it has any significant independence from the requirements of the owners of the means of production and the preservation of the system of capital accumulation In the long term , however , Marxists argue that the scope for human beings to choose freely and to shape their society as they wish is severely circumscribed by the private ownership of the means of production , the necessity of the state to respond to the crises and problems generated by capitalism as an economic system and the inequality of competition between different ideologies Elite theories do not go so far in limiting the scope for individuals to choose or to shape their societies They argue that individuals can choose , subjectively , to join , to maintain or to challenge the structure of power which exists . |
| 20 | Whatever force they have is completely exhausted by those underlying considerations . |
| 21 | The National Council for One-Parent Families is , understandably , concerned about the number of one-parent family children who go into substitute care , arguing that they are more vulnerable to separation because the help they need is often withheld . |
| 22 | A trade union education that is — as some have rightly advocated — open to members as well as representatives , broad-based and educational rather than narrow and role-specific , continuing and recurrent rather than ad hoc and disparate , will itself produce limited and ephemeral results unless working people can see that what they learn is also practised in their own organisations . |
| 23 | What they represent is also influenced by institutional constraints , and choices of output by record companies and radio stations ( see Frith 1987d : 137–8 ; Street 1986 : 116–25 ; Wallis and Malm 1984 : 242–52 ; Harker 1980 : 94–100 ) . |