Example sentences of "they [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extreme sensitivity they gain is invaluable in their quiet desert home . |
| 2 | But whereas , in the former , the lovers are effete , foppish and ultimately doomed , in They Wouldn't 's Gay Yardie routine , the characters Rupert and Denzel are ‘ two rough-up , ragamuffin characters ’ who exit the stage arm in arm and very much alive , leaving the audience with no option but to confront their own prejudices . |
| 3 | The difficulties which they met were formidable , and as much political as scientific . |
| 4 | The first pay they got was two the the first I remember people gillying for the Stenness Hotel , their pay was two and six and a gill of whisky . |
| 5 | But when they arrived what they got was far from a welcome home . |
| 6 | Regrettably , last night 's audience was a meagre one , but what they got was impressive , to say the least . |
| 7 | All they got was embarrassed . |
| 8 | The area in which they lived was overcrowded and unsalubrious and if there was rather less unemployment than in the north of England , that was about all that could be said for it . |
| 9 | Typically , the figurines which they made are 20 centimetres high and depict worshippers in attitudes of adoration , or reclining goats , or cattle . |
| 10 | Such concessions as they made were mere delaying tactics . |
| 11 | On average they had only five or six peasant households at their disposal , and since they lacked the capital , the expertise , and the time to raise peasant productivity , the exactions they made were onerous . |
| 12 | When our informants were encouraged to think of their own society in terms of groups or categories , the most basic distinction they made was that of sex and age . |
| 13 | For two lexical items A and B we can ask whether the respective classes of entities they denote are identical , disjunct , overlapping , or whether one includes the other . |
| 14 | The issues that they raise are complex , and procedurally they affect the responsibilities of a large number of bodies , both in Government and outside it . |
| 15 | Though some of the foregoing indicates diversity , the questions they raise are common to all teachers : |
| 16 | The context in which they arose was that of the capitalist world economy and imperialism ; hence there has also been , in many of these movements a substantial socialist influence , and in some countries , notably in China , nationalist movements have culminated in a social revolution . |
| 17 | The form of ‘ unofficial ’ war which they fought was more characteristic of brigandage and open robbery , but it would be wrong to assume that those who constituted the Companies were all , of necessity , men of criminal background or low degree . |
| 18 | The background against which they fought was arid red desert ; they might have been fighting to make it green again ; yet one had the feeling that if either defeated the other it would be disaster . |
| 19 | Thus self-report data indicate that serious crimes are disproportionately committed by the young uneducated males amongst whom the unemployed and ethnically oppressed are over-represented , but the contribution they make is less than the official data implies . |
| 20 | What do they think is good about our brand ? |
| 21 | I want Mum to ask the doctor why they keep testing me — what do they think is wrong ? |
| 22 | However , phonetically , the point at which they converge is further back than that characteristic of older middle-class speakers . |
| 23 | Not that they stopped being scared at once , that first , frightened time . |
| 24 | Among the issues which they pursued were proposed NIHT rent increases , resettlement grants , poor soundproofing and finishing in their accommodation and the refusal of the NIHT to provide a communal television aerial for Rossville Flats which would enable the tenants to receive Radio Telefis Eireann ( the Irish television network ) . |
| 25 | However , Lagan and Cooper DH ( both Alliance ) were the source of 1,700 non-transferable votes which could conceivably have affected the issue either way if they has been transferable . |
| 26 | The fears that the work could escalate into ‘ genetic engineering ’ , by which all but completely healthy babies would be terminated and parents could virtually plan the child they want are futuristic but increasingly real . |
| 27 | so the last thing they want is extra children to come in . |
| 28 | All they want is this bloody letter and we 're going to give it to them . |
| 29 | What they want is everyday talk . |
| 30 | Maybe Brian but what they want is initial contact point for somebody . |