Example sentences of "they [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The staggering fact that 41% of the original researchers have not published papers relating to their original research should lead funding authorities to question the extent to which the research programmes which they sponsored were worthwhile undertaking in the first place . |
| 32 | The fact that 41% of the original researchers have not published papers relating to their original research could lead funding authorities to question the extent to which the research programmes which they sponsored were worthwhile undertaking in the first place . |
| 33 | Moreover , we may point out that even if corresponding attributive and predicative adjectives ( occurring with the same noun ) could be relied on to share the same referential locus , that would be no justification for leaping to an assertion that the two elements are actually " the same " tout court , and even less for claiming that the structural positions they occupy are alternative forms of each other . |
| 34 | The pageant they built was crude — a ladder and a low plinth for God to sit on , a single trapdoor straight out on to the grass , a curtain across to conceal anyone who used it . |
| 35 | Whatever novelists may believe about the universe , they do not demand of their readers a formal belief in God or the Devil , or in the forces of history , and the tolerances they expect are wide . |
| 36 | Some of the plants they drew were diseased ; it is always a matter of difficulty to know which features of a plant or animal are individual peculiarities and which are specific characters . |
| 37 | The lift they entered was crowded , forcing them to stand close together , the brush of Luke 's jacket sleeve against her bare arm adding to the difficulty of trying to sort out what she was going to say to him before she agreed to get into the car with him . |
| 38 | She says they 're in soft skinnned vehicles and any shooting they encounter is dangerous but so far there 've been no injuries . |
| 39 | They argue that support acted as an antecedent protective factor , but as their data was not longitudinal , the relationships they found are open to alternative explanations . |
| 40 | These findings are consistent with the data of Simmonds et al although they used myeloperoxidase staining rather than measurement of myeloperoxidase activity , and the concentration of azide they used was 10-fold higher than concentrations that are believed to be specific for myeloperoxidase inhibition and thus may have been somewhat non-selective . |
| 41 | That the services they provide are relevant to environmental groups , and in that way to help environmental groups plug in to the kinds of advice on fund raising and er , management and all sorts of other aspects of running a voluntary organisation , which , at the moment , of , er a lot of , er social service organisations plug into , but so many environmental groups . |
| 42 | And he 's had it slapped in his face , because this council has provided an adequate budget for the police authority , it has pr , treated it fairly and squarely like every other council committee , and made sure that the service they provide is adequate for the people of this county . |
| 43 | The response from the public in places they visited was generous and heartwarming . |
| 44 | Moreover , these material objects were ‘ known ’ to generations of those for whom the land rights that they validated were important . |
| 45 | They bought heroin which they reported was top quality and thought to come from Holland . |
| 46 | An international team of astronomers estimated that the distance to Supernova 1987A , and therefore the LMC , is 169 000 light years , a figure which they say is accurate to within 5 per cent . |
| 47 | If what they say is derogatory , then that opinion ( false or unfair as it may be ) will be registered in the child 's subconscious mind and will grow and expand as he approaches adulthood . |
| 48 | And an epic which they say is unreadable . ’ |
| 49 | If anyone older than you , even someone you know , tries to kiss or touch you in a way you do n't like or that confuses you , or which they say is supposed to be a secret , say NO in a very loud voice . |
| 50 | The 1977 US survey also shows that most people give APRs a lower place in their actual shopping than in the more abstract terms of what they say is important with regard to disclosure . |
| 51 | How do they know what they say is true ? |
| 52 | Well , sometimes it 's easy , because you know independently , not only whether what they say is true , but whether they believe it . |
| 53 | Responding to what they say are inaccurate press stories — which we have not seen — Micro Focus Plc has issued a statement with Microsoft Corp 's concurrence , saying that their current agreement between will expire on September 30 , but that both want to continue their business relationship into the future and are exploring the terms for the new agreement ; as if to emphasise the point , Microsoft yesterday announced shipment of Microsoft Cobol professional development system version 5.0 for Windows , with support for the Visual Basic programming system for Windows and embedded structure query language ; it says the new release incorporates the latest version of the Micro Focus compiler , and creates executable files faster and smaller than previous releases ; it is $900 , now . |
| 54 | The move follows their dissatisfaction with what they say are deteriorating services throughout the area . |
| 55 | The atmosphere may as they say be electric but it 's nothing compared with the nervous energy being generated in this box . |
| 56 | The knowledge they seek is experiential , and they lived in the expectation of a final reality which must inevitably be in itself a judgement on the existential awareness of it at a human level . |
| 57 | Others will be the product of guesswork because the terrain they cover is unknown , and being unknown will contain risks . |
| 58 | Of course , the decision about where the funds are and what areas they cover is artificial . |
| 59 | As Foucault has shown ( 1981 : 92–102 ) , the power they hold is productive , not merely suppressive , of culture . |
| 60 | The amount of nervous excitement , and consequent prostration , exhaustion , and disorder they cause is fearful . |