Example sentences of "[be] [conj] they [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Or ‘ The trouble with self-made men is that they worship their creator . ’ |
| 32 | To the extent that Europeans know of this Oxbridge dominance , my experience is that they regard it with some satisfaction ( they have generally heard of Oxford and Cambridge ) , but that their satisfaction changes to complacency when they reflect upon what they believe to be the uniquely class-ridden structure of English society . |
| 33 | The answer is that they told us that they tried this several times and it did not work . |
| 34 | The same may be true of the Prinias horsemen , but the relief there is rather low , and an alternative is that they turn their eyes on us as guardians of the house : the ‘ terror-mask ’ , a concept we shall meet again . |
| 35 | The danger is that they stop you looking . |
| 36 | Whilst it is no doubt true that the heaviness of early Soviet ICBMs and the ‘ dirtiness ’ of their warheads stemmed from crude propulsion and guidance systems , all that matters is that they accomplished what they were designed to . |
| 37 | The most likely explanation is that they saw it as a way to keep the Catholic-educated Mary out of Scotland , while maintaining their formal loyalty to her , thereby maximizing their opportunity to advance the Protestant cause while minimizing the need to clash directly with their sovereign ; there was , after all , no sign that Mary was particularly interested in the internal affairs of her kingdom , and although it was a gamble , and a risky one , leaving her to continue to enjoy life in France appeared to be the best chance they had . |
| 38 | Alexei , what my brothers meant to say is that they await your command . |
| 39 | Erm one of the problems fish have on this is that they lay their eggs in gravel or something like that and where males have their own nest sometimes another male comes along and er takes it over , hijacks it piracy and interestingly enough what happens in those situations a pirate male will come in , displace the existing male from his nest and fertilize a few eggs and then buzz off . |
| 40 | The thing is Danny is that they said they 'd only bought the thing in July . |
| 41 | Perhaps the reason for the comic success of such characters is that they help us to recognise the prejudice which exists in all of us at so many different levels about so many different things . |
| 42 | And if some of the material in the book seems occasionally to verge on the utopian , it is worth reminding ourselves that , as Jan Montefiore says in Feminism and Poetry , ‘ the value of utopias is that they enable us to imagine possibilities of difference for the brute contingent world ’ . |
| 43 | The value of concepts and cognitive structures is that they enable us to classify events and to make judgments and ( unlike repertoires of behaviours and lists of facts ) enable us to solve new problems . |
| 44 | The reason for the excitement in using lasers is that they enable us to study unstable nuclei , which was not previously possible . |
| 45 | The other aspect of theories is that they enable us to make generalizations . |
| 46 | The surprise here is that they did it with the best , very purest intentions , poor lambs . |
| 47 | Another potential problem for patients is that they find themselves in the role of information-giver , and it is often information of a very personal nature . |
| 48 | The problem for the media is that they find it very difficult to secure agreement across the political spectrum as to what would be accepted as impartially presented news . |
| 49 | One problem that a lot of knitters have , to start with , is that they find it difficult to free the weaving yarn from the sinker plate when changing it from one side of the sinker plate to the other . |
| 50 | The great advantage of such institutions is that they fit you for prison conditions . |
| 51 | The importance of these articles is that they remind us forcibly of the false dawn which often surrounds new treatments . |
| 52 | ’ The important thing is that they understand what they are comming into . |
| 53 | ’ The important thing is that they understand what they are comming into . |
| 54 | I think the idea is that Sun is that they see it as somebody 's gone poof poof want to be to write quickly and they would argue that a Sun reader has a sharp attention span . |
| 55 | The basic premise is that they think they know better than anyone else . |
| 56 | But one thing about our Asian men is that they think it a matter of pride that their women must not go out to work . |
| 57 | I mean the thing that they latch onto all the time is that they think it 's perfectly reasonable that they should compliment a young woman and so on , and I do see , Bill , that this is a problem because these men have been brought up like this and they think of themselves as being polite and courteous and , you know , a little flirtatious and doing all the things that actually they were taught women like and is rather nice . |
| 58 | The only thing , today , is that they escorted us without any weapons . |
| 59 | I mean I think that my principle desire is that they pay their er they contribute to our income and pay their rent regularly and are able to do so . |
| 60 | The mutual understanding is that they give him their votes , and he gives them his services , always seeking to prove that he is at the very least as obliging and as diligent as the other " TDs and would-be TDs in his constituency . |