Example sentences of "they [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 31 | The first one they got was erm |
| 32 | Those were ever so nice that they got were n't they ? |
| 33 | What they lack is the courage and confidence to pursue their conclusions to their logical outcome . |
| 34 | Two of areas of difference they highlight are particularly relevant to the public sector — scope and responsibility . |
| 35 | Under the Food Safety Act , they have an obligation to show everything they sell is a wholesome product on which the consumer can rely . |
| 36 | he believes that the issues have been oversimplified and that , for example , caterers should start thinking hard about how the food they sell is produced . |
| 37 | I 've had people come up and buy records and tapes and things and they 've gone back to their stall which is all they sell is records and tapes . |
| 38 | I can only assume that manufacturers who do n't properly configure the machines they sell are either lazy or careless . |
| 39 | Hi-fi salespeople who confuse and infuriate customers with tedious descriptions of the electronic wizardry behind the products they sell are no less guilty of this sin . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | He exhorted his readers never to omit the prayers for the Sovereign in the Communion Service , because ‘ the county in which they lived was the seat of the late rebellion ’ and ‘ the tares of sedition have been industriously sown among you and you have the greater reason to pray that you may be firm in your allegiance . |
| 42 | The only place they lived was in the northern mountains , the Greshorns . |
| 43 | Some collectors used to visit the museum weekly to check up on how the art they lent was being shown , or if it was shown at all ’ , says one long-time curator . |
| 44 | The answer they devised is called Compact Disc Interactive ( CD-I ) . |
| 45 | The funds they manipulated were substantially other people 's . |
| 46 | They are ‘ natural ’ because they are not planned and because the order they display is not the result of design … |
| 47 | The first thing they realised was that they would have to slow things down . |
| 48 | A few minutes passed as they congratulated Cara on what they realised was something of a very large achievement . |
| 49 | Between the bouts of keen pain a curious life took possession of his brain , a life in which kings and queens floated on the water and white-clad saracens rode up and down before a cage in which was a crowned lion , and then , suddenly , the cage was empty and the saracens were knights in armour and the water on which they rode was a mountain like a tree in which birds nested and which burst into flames and was the phoenix ; and somewhere was the Holy Grail for which he reached out in vain , and a jewelled sword , and a unicorn that spoke but said nothing . |
| 50 | Typically , the figurines which they made are 20 centimetres high and depict worshippers in attitudes of adoration , or reclining goats , or cattle . |
| 51 | The first membranes they made were far too thin and would not survive transfer into air , let alone freeze-drying . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | It is worth noting that although the children produced passages which facilitated greater learning , the changes which they made were not necessarily ones which would be picked up by a readability formula . |
| 54 | But perhaps the most crucial changes they made were to what Gordon referred to as the " macrostructure signalling " within the passage . |
| 55 | Such concessions as they made were mere delaying tactics . |
| 56 | Yes , there have been some very vigorous objections made by local residents , and that is particularly why the application that preceded this one was refused planning permission because er the objections they made were considered to be well founded by the Planning Committee and supported many of their views . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | ‘ All that they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor . ’ |
| 59 | The question they asked was : |
| 60 | The support from those in the demonstration and those shouting messages of support as they passed was greatly appreciated . |