Example sentences of "[noun] they [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , single-syllable words present no problems — if they are pronounced in isolation they are said with primary stress . |
| 2 | During experiment they were placed in modified Bollman type cages to maintain the minimum restraint necessary . |
| 3 | The requirement i is that th when they are stored in the erm shops they 're stored in safe conditions . |
| 4 | Unlike vertebrates , insects have muscles that contain relatively few fibres and to achieve smooth contractions they are supplied by multiple nerve endings some 30–80 µm apart , each inducing local contraction . |
| 5 | Crippled by gunshot wounds they were rescued by British doctor Pauline Cutting and taken for treatment to Stoke Mandeville and the National Spinal Injuries Unit . |
| 6 | As justices of the peace they were burdened by central government with a growing number of responsibilities ; the more prosperous also intruded into the market towns , maintaining houses in Chichester or Lewes as well as the lesser centres , and replacing townsmen as Members of Parliament as the costs of the job became more onerous and the social distinction of election more desirable . |
| 7 | At the moment they are swamped in other considerations and their very existence is often denied . |
| 8 | In their undergraduate years they are drilled in factual knowledge and scientific method , and rarely see patients outside hospital buildings . |
| 9 | For many years they were regarded as colonial coelenterates , but it is now certain that they are unrelated to the jellyfish and their allies , and in fact are distant cousins to a small group of tube-dwelling organisms with little fossil record , which belong to the minor phylum Hemichordata . |
| 10 | The cooperation of consumers enabled the disruption of production to be minimised ; and the industry 's expertise in avoiding the more serious problems developed with experience and with the higher priorities they were granted for scarce coal supplies after the disastrous crisis of February 1947 . |
| 11 | Brownish grey in colour they 're recommended for freshwater tanks , but should be tested in low pH set ups with care as some may raise the pH . |
| 12 | ‘ If we afforded them the respect they deserve the respect they are given in other European countries then the standard of service we would get would be a lot higher , ’ says the 55-year-old Swiss-trained baker . |
| 13 | The open cars were delivered in 1934 , to save money they were fitted with second-hand controllers . |
| 14 | As reports flood in [ in this case they are drawn from contemporary accounts ] groups must produce a front page story about the cholera . |
| 15 | On closer inspection they were equipped with central nipples of white rubber . |
| 16 | The slopes which produce these prized vines are generally east-facing , but in a few specific cases they are exposed in northern and southern directions . |
| 17 | If one accepts that a person 's actions are freely chosen , one can not then argue that in some cases they are determined by outside forces . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , recent reports , such as A growing problem by the British charity Oxfam , have shown that multinational companies sell dangerous pesticides indiscriminately in the Third World , In some cases they are promoted through misleading advertising to largely illiterate farmers . |
| 19 | Functionally the antennae are organs of special -sense ( Schneider , 1964 ; see also p. 139 ) but in a few cases they are modified for other uses . |
| 20 | And in some cases they were referred to mental-health professionals like us . |
| 21 | So of course they 're based on national figures . |
| 22 | In this case , however , methodological issues are tackled from a largely user standpoint , whereas in the previous part they were viewed as substantive problems in their own right . |
| 23 | After a brief show trial they were put in solitary confinement in appalling conditions until March this year . |
| 24 | In the Trichoptera and the Dipterous family Psychodidae , for example , they are closely covered with hairs , while in the Lepidoptera they are invested with overlapping scales . |
| 25 | After discharge they were reviewed at weekly intervals and the volume of feed consumed was recorded daily throughout the four week period . |
| 26 | For some reason they 're mounted on angled surrounds , which I quite like the look of , but the coils are screened by black plastic covers which look pretty cheap and make a nasty scratching noise if you hit them with a pick . |
| 27 | Some form of property taxes are an almost universal source of income for local government , but in many parts of the world they are accompanied by other forms of taxation . |
| 28 | This is because he asked from the people a level of commitment that meant even in peacetime they were subjected to strict rule . |
| 29 | In early societies relationships between people are governed by such things as their gender , their age , and their family relationships ( these Maine called status relations ) , while in more advanced societies they are governed by contractual arrangements which are not concerned with the status of those involved , but only with the matter which brings the individuals together . |
| 30 | I knew that in the main they were painted by Indian and mestizo artists at the command of the Europeans . |