Example sentences of "they [vb infin] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Beach-heads hear they 've been cursed by a Swells SOTW |
| 2 | P.P.S I see they 've been feeding Mark H on the raw meat again : - ) ) ) How did ‘ Antiscum United ’ go on over the weekend by the way ? ? |
| 3 | Well you see they 've been brainwashed to that sort of music so they 're bound to , bound to like it . |
| 4 | Of all the hedges I 've seen they 've been about eighteen two foot , about that far apart |
| 5 | I do n't they 've been doing anything to me yet okay . |
| 6 | Perhaps they would tell us , if they were allowed to spend more , where do they think the funds come from , and who do they think 's going to pay ? |
| 7 | I want Mum to ask the doctor why they keep testing me — what do they think is wrong ? |
| 8 | What do they think is good about our brand ? |
| 9 | What did they think was going to happen after the last British troops evacuated the Canal Zone on 13 June 1956 ? |
| 10 | Peter Nutting , who led the association of Outhwaite members to a succesful settlement , said he sympathised with Gooda Walker names , but ‘ if the names were not going to pay these calls , who did they think was going to pay them ? ’ |
| 11 | And what sort of God did they believe was best worshipped in a basilica that leaves no lily ungilded ? |
| 12 | ‘ Yeah , when they do the post-mortem , what will they decide was the cause of death ? ’ |
| 13 | Could n't they stop being so right on ? |
| 14 | Could they have been any worse , do you think ? ’ |
| 15 | What improbable thoughts could they have been having ? |
| 16 | Never , The Smiths now make Duran Duran , Nik Kershaw or Michael Jackson look years out of date so how could they have been seen as old fashioned at the start ? |
| 17 | If such is the character of these places now , what must they have been like when both men and livestock could only get around them by boat , and parishes such as Dogdyke in Lincolnshire had in the eighteenth century ‘ not two houses communicable for whole winters round ’ . |
| 18 | Whilst I entirely agree with Nochlin 's decision not to amend any of the articles ( ‘ despite the strong temptation to correct what I now know to be errors of fact or feel to be mistakes of interpretation ’ , p. xii ) , neither should they have been allowed to stand in an historical vacuum . |
| 19 | If words such as scio and non dubito in the second half of the second century were not regarded as showing clear intention to set up trusts , might they have been after these cases ? |
| 20 | But how much more imposing must they have been when their eye sockets were equipped with staring eyes of black obsidian and white coral . |
| 21 | Would they have been country and gospel-based songs ? |
| 22 | Or might they have been Tory voters fooled by Labour 's billboard poster of John Major wearing an SNP rosette ? |
| 23 | And if they really were the murderers , would they have been so foolish , after leaving Ayr and with Ross 's money in the car , to have picked up as they did two girls who had been stranded by their boy friends , and taken them to their homes in Kilmarnock ? |
| 24 | Certainly most members of the general public will have heard of the Draize test for detecting the irritant potential of cosmetics , or perhaps the more widely used LD50 , nor will they have been spared photographs of immobilised creatures in plaintive lines . |
| 25 | ‘ Could n't they have been secretly shot ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Had it been normal parents sitting in court , would they have been ordered to pay £7,000 ? |
| 27 | The queen mother 's religious views and those of the French advisers she gathered around her did little to allay the reformers ' fears ; nor would they have been happy to know that on Mary 's marriage in 1558 to the Dauphin , who the following year became King Francis II , she secretly signed an agreement that if she should die childless her kingdom of Scotland and her claim to the throne of England should become her husband 's . |
| 28 | Were these merely eddies in the mud on the bottom of the primeval seas or could they have been formed by living organisms ? |
| 29 | How will they have been tested ? |
| 30 | Yeah , but why would n't they have been much more relevant ? |