Example sentences of "they [be] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ But have n't they been closed to visitors ? ’ |
| 32 | ‘ Lightweight dinghies should n't be used unless they are tethered to the shore , ’ said Peter Race . |
| 33 | When people write nice things about my food it always sounds like they are referring to someone else … ’ . |
| 34 | The naturalists do not admit that they are referring to rules of genre ; their writings must be true , not just likely . |
| 35 | Both speakers and writers find this useful when they are referring to two things , one animate , one inanimate . |
| 36 | Clearly without a standardized definition research findings can be misleading and invariably confusing because they are referring to very different phenomena . |
| 37 | Thus , when many people talk ( or think ) about CAD , they are referring to the secondary design activity wherein the seed of the idea is fully investigated and developed . |
| 38 | They are referring to rabies , which in Portuguese is called raiva — literally rage , fury , madness . |
| 39 | This R A F Wittering job that they are referring to S S W F C |
| 40 | They are assigned to a team and introduced ( if that 's the word ) to their team leader . |
| 41 | Another group went to talk to the ‘ Educated Youth ’ ( i.e. young people who after leaving school in the city go to work in the commune and learn from the peasants ) — after 2 or more years in the country , a few of them may get the chance for further training or education before they are assigned to their jobs ( there is no such thing as applying for a job here ) . |
| 42 | Rather , organizational goals are what they are perceived to be by officials who have been socialized into the organizational ‘ way of life ’ and who strive in a highly co-ordinate fashion to bring about collectively their realization . |
| 43 | However we make sure that they are manufactured to the latest BSI standards using only the best quality materials . |
| 44 | ‘ They are geared to the narrow dimensions of their own sports . |
| 45 | They are aroused to activity by others , by friendship , by relating . |
| 46 | Behind Sweeney Agonistes lies Rivers , but Eliot 's interpretation and use of Rivers owes much to the Stevensonian world of his childhood reading , where white men seek paradise with island wives arrayed in ‘ the scarlet flowers of the hibiscus ’ , only to find too often that they are condemned to a life of soul-destroying boredom where ‘ Night on the Beach ’ is followed monotonously by ‘ Morning on the Beach ’ . |
| 47 | They are condemned to a life of misery in cramped breeding colonies . |
| 48 | The net result is that once the protons have overcome the initial fusion hurdle they are converted to 4 He , radiating energy in the process . |
| 49 | Some people ( who usually turn out to do well in phonetic training ) find that in speaking to someone with a different accent their pronunciation gets progressively more like that of the person they are speaking to , like a chameleon adapting its colour to its environment . |
| 50 | Moreton councillor Ken Hemsley said : ‘ I am just concerned that people answering 999 calls may not understand a local dialect and they may be talking about a place which the person they are speaking to will never have heard of . |
| 51 | Price Waterhouse is testing its ‘ START ’ scheme , which should reduce the number of graduates but increase the standard they are trained to . |
| 52 | I have to say though that it 's usually very embarrassing to see a group of professional dancers dancing in a club — because they are trained to be self-conscious , they ca n't let go of themselves . |
| 53 | Rover and other car manufacturers are now so successful that they are exporting to Japan and elsewhere . |
| 54 | What a lot of stupid people they are to listen to a preacher anyway ! |
| 55 | Hudson points to the fact that , not only are these terms applied by pupils to the arts and sciences , but also they are recognized to a large degree by those , like himself , working within psychology . |
| 56 | Covering countryside such as the Chilterns and the South Downs , they are intended to be areas of special planning control with strong accent on the visual and environmental effects of any development . |
| 57 | Both brushes and foam can also take on a partial biofiltering role , but if they are intended to be a mechanical filter , they should be cleaned before they clog . |
| 58 | In all these cases the court has been concerned to ensure that these fundamental requirements are met in the way in which , particularly in the case of the county courts , they are intended to be and should be met . |
| 59 | They are intended to be used to consolidate or to revise language which has already been presented in other ways . |
| 60 | Most ELT series are intended to supplement what is in the textbook not to replace it and they are intended to be used to consolidate the learning of language that has already been presented in another form . |