Example sentences of "they [adv] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Them alone are werf a small fortune . |
| 2 | The fact that all of them together were plotting something is hard to get used to . |
| 3 | Country sports are a heritage and a way of life to literally millions of people and to take them away is to prevent freedom of choice within the law . |
| 4 | Layers of rock that are porous and permeable enough to store water and let it flow through them easily are called aquifers . |
| 5 | Making up that sort of money now that the Philippine Senate has sent them home is going to take some doing . |
| 6 | Your home could be at risk if you do n't take some basic precautions — and not taking them now is giving a burglar an invitation for later . |
| 7 | ‘ What depresses me about the whole position is that skills are so important and the lack of them now is undermining our whole competitive position . |
| 8 | Before leaving randomizing algorithms , it should be made clear that the treatment of them here is based on the assumption that the file size , once created , can only be altered when the file is reorganized . |
| 9 | At West Bromwich in the west midlands the Dissenters defended their meeting-house with guns and swords , some of them even being mounted on horses . |
| 10 | Some two hundred years after Descartes had formulated his concept of mechanical laws , a proven capacity to discover the laws of nature and to express them mathematically was taken by the first systematic historian of science , William Whewell , as evidence of an affinity between human and the divine mind . |
| 11 | ‘ Our dynamic legislative leaders drank coffee and occasionally took notes , but they rarely were given a chance to say anything . ’ |
| 12 | Should they necessarily be restricted to electoral variations , or even to activity around state institutions such as local government ? |
| 13 | The Yasa provided for the settlement of disputes and affairs of honour only between the races of the True People , for they alone were equipped with the talons with which the kanly — formal mortal combat — was fought . |
| 14 | And we went to one temple and it got dark whilst we were there , it was called the Monkey Temple , and it 's just so many monkeys around , and they just are allowed to run wild , but by the time we got back to our bikes it was dark and we had to cycle back in the dark without any lights on these unlit , unmade roads and that was quite frightening really . |
| 15 | Well everybody that was working for him had always worked in the quarries all their life , and they er they just been working for the slater company before the quarry shut down . |
| 16 | Should we , or should they just be rounded up and locked up ? |
| 17 | However , as a practical scheme this is infeasible , since consumers have no direct incentive to reveal their benefit schedules , nor can they easily be encouraged to do so ( Green and Laffont , 1979 ) . |
| 18 | Thus Æ to Ě they soon were fetchin' Cf. such forms as ÞÆC and ÞECCEAN . |
| 19 | Will they still be paid in arrears , |
| 20 | But this causes problems from the hard-line positivist point of view : if ‘ definitions ’ can vary in terms of such nebulous things as subjective meanings , how can they possibly be counted and measured ? |
| 21 | As we said they like being stretched intellectually so if you can put forward some concept theories they , they actually enjoy that . |
| 22 | Only once have they ever been beaten , by England in 1935 on a treacherous , uncovered , rain-affected surface . |
| 23 | Indeed , he may not mean that they ever are received in their simplicity . |
| 24 | Erm yeah oh the bearings we we they usually were bought from They were American er brass bearings , huge brass things you know . |
| 25 | They also are expected to call for a UN arms embargo . |
| 26 | Efficiency audits have no real private sector counterpart since monopoly references , though they also are carried out by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission , are more limited in scope . |
| 27 | The Americans not only were spending heavily on their own forces but they also were determined to wring the maximum defence effort from European allies . |
| 28 | It would note be surprising if they were enjoying themselves because everyone likes puzzles that are pitched at the right level ; but could they also be soaking in such GCSE-endangered basics as valency , formula , and molecular weight ? |
| 29 | Now it is a sport , and it is a skilled game you know , and I think women can play it just as well as men , or against men and you know , you can have your fans who are very strong for your women 's team tha just as much as the men , but yet , would they also be branded as hooligans because they go along and stand on the terraces and shout for the girls ? |
| 30 | So I suggest that they also be omitted from a first reading , leaving chapters 1–5 and 8–13 inclusive . |