Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] they [conj] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The social services department should be able to fit even ordinary radiators with some sort of guard , so that if you should fall against them and be unable to move , you are not pinned against something that is uncomfortably or dangerously hot . |
| 2 | So that 's an acid plus a metal , now an acid plus a base which is this one we 've just done , a metal oxide the metal oxides are bases , er you can think of them as being alkaline , we call it basic but very very similar sort of thing to alkaline okay so what happens with a base and an acid ? |
| 3 | We do n't normally think of them as being anxious , but simply as being hard to catch , too nervous to ride , or unreliable in competition . |
| 4 | Right so yeah she 's , she 's certainly not looking at them as being revolutionary |
| 5 | So we think of them as being descriptive , but in reality , if you 're going to say to somebody , you 're very responsible , they 're probably not going to know what you mean , unless you come up with a few examples of what you 're talking about , of how they 've demonstrated that type of behaviour . |
| 6 | ( These stages occur simultaneously , but it is convenient to think of them as being sequential . ) |
| 7 | On 24 July he had criticized the first version of the ecumenical decree , Ut Omnes Unum Sint : So although it is no doubt true to say that Pope John approved in general of the prepared texts , he was not deeply attached to them and was prepared to see them dropped without any deep sense of personal loss . |