Example sentences of "[vb base] they [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greene King could extend the deadline again … but at Morlanmd otnight they 're confident of fighting off the takeover |
| 2 | pity they were probably enemies , marriage or not . |
| 3 | Although 46 per cent of district purchasers report they are cooperating with their CHC on issues of quality , only 0.9 per cent included medical audit ( Appleby et al. |
| 4 | ‘ The reports I 've been receiving suggest they 're well on the road to recovery . ’ |
| 5 | If the police are to continue to exercise control over an increasingly pluralist society , which is better educated and less willing simply to accept any version of events handed out by the powerful , then it seems essential they should avoid scrutiny yet suggest they are totally accountable to the democratic ideal . |
| 6 | Mythological stories about them suggest they are necessarily seen in this simplistic way to reaffirm to ‘ real polises ’ that it is they who are the true inhabitants of the pragmatic world of conflict and action . |
| 7 | But the haemorrhage of people since travel was eased in the past few years , and the mass exodus of the past weeks suggest they are in a minority . |
| 8 | The new appointments demonstrate a commitment by the Saatchi brothers to restore the company 's fortunes and suggest they are a long way from turning their backs on the business they built . |
| 9 | Six Arabs — their headdress and robes suggest they are Bedouin — rest beside an ancient well of translucent blue water . |
| 10 | Reflections from the underlying sediments , which range in age from Cambrian to Westphalian , suggest they are more or less flat-lying though faulted . |
| 11 | Spender implies that linguists are passively following a sexist rule of English grammar ; I suggest they are actively creating one . |
| 12 | Observation of zoo animals and the few accounts from naturalists in the field suggest they are a fairly stormy procedure , consisting of mock chases , vicious swipes of the female 's paw as well as obvious kisses and caresses . |
| 13 | Out on the fields , the flocks of golden plover begin to show an increasing number of black-fronted birds as they moult , and the extent of these markings suggest they are of more northerly origin . |
| 14 | ‘ I expect they 're hungry , ’ said Mrs Hollidaye . |
| 15 | ‘ I expect they 're very high up , ’ said Anne doubtfully , ‘ or Mr. Gosling would have picked them . ’ |
| 16 | I expect they 're outside . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I expect they 're stale , ’ he said cheerfully , ‘ and he 's glad to be rid of them . |
| 18 | " I expect they 're anxious to chair me around the hall , " thought the Collector triumphantly . |
| 19 | I expect they 're among the most important people in the country . |
| 20 | ‘ I expect they 're the same ones he used to tell me . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I expect they 're normally a great deal younger ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , I expect they 're saving hard for their wedding , ’ Merrill said carelessly . |
| 23 | I expect they 're very expensive , ’ she said wistfully . |
| 24 | They must have had long journies , so I expect they 're having a lie in , I know I would . |
| 25 | We 've got a flat now , very nice , but we 'd like a house in Yonder , down by the river , but I expect they 're more expensive . ’ |
| 26 | Mind you , I expect they 're already fixed up with a vet . |
| 27 | I expect they 're going home . |
| 28 | and I expect they 're coming out and looking |
| 29 | Well apart the radio but I expect they 're gon na a radio of sorts you know ? |
| 30 | The General Synod of the Church of England and the Methodist Conference were the events ; as you expect they are quite different . |