Example sentences of "they are [verb] [am/are] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people who suffer if they are broken are not the owners , the shareholders or the board of directors , but those who work in the industry — people who have given their lives to that industry , built up the companies ' assets and made them into going concerns attractive for privatisation . |
| 2 | Most analysts said IBM Corp is not done with its restructuring , and there will be more to come — ‘ I think basically the mainframe business and the problems they are facing are very fundamental and will likely worsen in 1993 , ’ Smith said — ‘ the mainframe business is the main source of cash flow and it will be very difficult to offset that by improvements elsewhere . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We do need to talk to the tutors and point out that the patterns of study that they are providing are not meeting the demands of the market , ’ Mr Armitage stresses . |
| 4 | The advantages that they are getting are admirable and important but reforms that only give these advantages to a select minority can not be called fair . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ They are destroying are livelihood . |
| 6 | Whether the length of time spent in making these inquiries and the mode in which they are made are reasonable or not may be nice questions . |
| 7 | ( In this chapter , we shall adopt the convention that all numbers that change when they are smoothed are shown in bold print . ) |
| 8 | The places where they are stored are secret . |
| 9 | In today 's Nature , Professor Stephen Mann and Dr Jon Didymus from Bath University , working with Dr Young and colleagues at the Natural History Museum , have found that in spite of their varied appearance , the chalk crystals of which they are built are organised in the same way at the atomic level . |
| 10 | However , it is worth emphasising that the stages and the measures on which they are based are derived from a grammatical description and that , in the case of children with language difficulties , it can not be assumed that structurally based measures are predictive of functional skills ( Blank et al . |
| 11 | Forecasts from econometric models will be inaccurate if the data on which they are based are wrong . |
| 12 | It is now known that the majority of standard statistical procedures used in the construction and evaluation of quantitative economic ( and other ) models , are sensitive to whether or not the data series to which they are applied are stable or unstable . |
| 13 | In the way that military tactics fail by being repeated without regard to changed environment and situation , we expect people to live up to their reputation when the circumstances in which they are performing are very different . |
| 14 | They need to know that the onerous tasks they are performing are done correctly and are appreciated by line managers . |
| 15 | It is clear that the main prisons in which they are held are no longer overcrowded and that if they choose to do so , these prisoners can participate in the full range of activities . |
| 16 | Police are now anxious to trace the buyers who might not yet realise the cars they are driving are stolen . |
| 17 | They tend to see with their ears and accept things that they are told are acceptable , ’ he says . |
| 18 | Those that fail subsequent tests are rejected , while those that survive all the tests to which they are subjected are tentatively retained . |
| 19 | It is perfectly conceivable that we can make some general statements about the conditions that influence our self-indulgence or self-restraint in relation to rules laid down and enforced by the state , particularly when the nature of those rules and the way they are enforced are included for consideration . |
| 20 | And it is the same attitude of world-weariness and sophistication that socializes each generation of students and new teachers into believing that their own blends of ill-formed idealism , intermittent enthusiasm and nagging doubt about the true value of what they are doing are merely the embarrassing stigmata of the beginner , to be covered up as much as possible , and grown out of as soon as possible . |
| 21 | The sacrifices they are making are crucial to the freedom of millions … as is the sacrifice you contemplated . |
| 22 | Bank references are sought by companies to ensure that those with whom they are trading are solvent and can pay for goods and services supplied to them . |
| 23 | ‘ That 's why , ’ says Howard , ‘ we must make sure that the terms they are offered are self-evidently unacceptable … |
| 24 | ‘ Others have understandably wanted to recoup their investment and the rents they are asking are more than a student can afford on a £750 a term grant . ’ |