Example sentences of "they [vb base] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are no longer refusing to accept the evidence of their own eyes but are hoping there may be some sort of rational explanation for what they fear is an irrational event . |
| 2 | ‘ A lot of prisoners would never dream of reading one of Shakespeare 's plays because they fear being out of their depth . |
| 3 | Whatever the reticence of archaeologists on the matter — perhaps they fear being thought fanciful by their academic colleagues — excavations have begun to confirm the details in legends and myths . |
| 4 | Almost all the information they gain is given freely and with the tacit or blind approval of Western governments . |
| 5 | The extreme sensitivity they gain is invaluable in their quiet desert home . |
| 6 | The knowledge they gain is often fascinating in its own right , but economic and social historians believe that an understanding of past change is also vital in helping us to understand today 's society . |
| 7 | But whereas , in the former , the lovers are effete , foppish and ultimately doomed , in They Wouldn't 's Gay Yardie routine , the characters Rupert and Denzel are ‘ two rough-up , ragamuffin characters ’ who exit the stage arm in arm and very much alive , leaving the audience with no option but to confront their own prejudices . |
| 8 | What they lack is the courage and confidence to pursue their conclusions to their logical outcome . |
| 9 | Two of areas of difference they highlight are particularly relevant to the public sector — scope and responsibility . |
| 10 | Under the Food Safety Act , they have an obligation to show everything they sell is a wholesome product on which the consumer can rely . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I can only assume that manufacturers who do n't properly configure the machines they sell are either lazy or careless . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They are ‘ natural ’ because they are not planned and because the order they display is not the result of design … |
| 16 | For two lexical items A and B we can ask whether the respective classes of entities they denote are identical , disjunct , overlapping , or whether one includes the other . |
| 17 | The issue they raise is charged with the heaviest moral and political overtones : did de Gaulle at any point give the go-ahead for Operation Resurrection ? |
| 18 | Though some of the foregoing indicates diversity , the questions they raise are common to all teachers : |
| 19 | The issues that they raise are complex , and procedurally they affect the responsibilities of a large number of bodies , both in Government and outside it . |
| 20 | A lot of the food they eat is n't natural food , but in fact is synthetic organic food . |
| 21 | increasingly I think nowadays people converse in not a foreign language , because the terms that people use are familiar but meanings that they intend are not , and th th th the computer people are the worst because they use ordinary words which mean completely different things in the |
| 22 | What they advocate is the wholesale transformation of the system so that something quite different can emerge . |
| 23 | The standard that they advocate is not a prescriptive one . |
| 24 | By placing the paragraphs on the node-link-node triples , the traversal of the semantic net and the generation of cohesive linear documents is also facilitated , as paragraphs are invoked only when the two nodes which they connect are simultaneously considered . |
| 25 | Watching people you hardly know getting progressively drunk in front of your eyes while you soberly and precisely monitor the way they change is unexpectedly disturbing . |
| 26 | The most startling illustration of how things can stay the same while they change is found in one of Stein-am-Rhein 's many excellent restaurants . |
| 27 | But where they and the study immediately differed was where , as , group finance director at John Menzies , said , it ‘ set off on a diverging track ’ from what they perceive is already best practice albeit only among the major companies . |
| 28 | Californians have a reputation for latching on to fads , and it 's true — yet a lot of what they preach is eminently sensible . |
| 29 | They make in n it ? |
| 30 | When the majority of athletes begin to take vitamin supplements the most basic mistake they make is to take too many without considering which is going to help them most . |