Example sentences of "they be [adv] " in BNC.

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1 How long have they been here ?
2 That smile had gone , though , when Rosemary went on , ‘ Fortunately , my parents were n't in — I just do n't know what I 'd have done had they been here .
3 You want to choose one there , they been very busy , have they been very busy up there the old canteen then ?
4 You want to choose one there , they been very busy , have they been very busy up there the old canteen then ?
5 Had they been anywhere else but on the sleekly beautiful boat she would have rounded on Nathan with a devastating tirade and cut the ground from under his feet .
6 Subjects may instead simply have given good estimates of the risk which they would have felt had they been actually present in the situations .
7 Speaking on Feb. 27 , Schwarzkopf confirmed that allied forces could have gone on to take the Iraqi capital had they been so ordered .
8 Never had they been so great a power in the country .
9 The late arrival by 13 minutes of three of their key players left Peterlee with too much work to do at Consett where they went down in a first division game by 91 points to 58 as they were left wondering what effect Ivor James , Gord Laing and Allen Quarmby might have had had they been there for the start .
10 Have they been there all week ?
11 Have they been as bad for you , darling ? ’
12 Wherever possible , however , the counsellor must take into consideration what the counsellees might themselves have wanted had they been sufficiently well to have made the judgement themselves .
13 ‘ We do n't want to see things dragged on indefinitely , but they are repeatedly delaying a solution to the problem . ’
14 However , many inexperienced pilots get so thoroughly engrossed in the thermalling or what is going on elsewhere that they are temporarily ‘ switched off ’ to how they are flying .
15 The majority of children come into care at the request of their parents , because they are temporarily unable to look after them , and they will return to their own homes in due course .
16 If we have a night sitting service , an elderly person may not have to go in hospital if they are temporarily gone off their legs as sometimes happens .
17 But once on the move they are devilishly difficult to stop , as is Villa 's right winger , Daley .
18 Camp sites there are in plenty , but they are discreetly sited .
19 ‘ But they are understandably reluctant to pay for research students , because they will probably go off and join the competition .
20 Some , like the hardline godfather Chen Yun , are so infirm they are rarely seen in public .
21 Part of the trick of a successful television documentary is to make each comment delivered within it sound spontaneous : they are rarely anything of the sort .
22 ( I did n't catch these because they are rarely taken on rod and line , but herrings make excellent bait for skate and pike .
23 In Canada and the United States there are coroners , but they are rarely used .
24 It is a mark of the success of the policy that although they are often regarded as real people , they are rarely treated as such .
25 Horses have a need for movement : they are rarely still .
26 Nevertheless , they are rarely used individually and to the exclusion of all other forms of communication , so they need to be considered all together ; each form of communication adding a little more to the message the horse is sending .
27 Although these disorders are genetic in origin , they are rarely inherited .
28 Unlike parish churches , they are rarely open except at service times , so if ever you see the door of a chapel open — when it is being cleaned or the organist is practising — be sure to go inside .
29 First , they are rarely posed as clearly as this ; things tend to happen incrementally or interstitially .
30 They are rarely more than a couple of hundred metres high , and they are usually symmetrical , although they may be ‘ breached ’ on one side , where a lava flow has emerged .
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