Example sentences of "[adv] they [be] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The oblong block markers are n't centrally positioned either ; perhaps they 're meant to be offset as well … |
| 2 | He said and I do n't think that they were meant to be perhaps they were meant to be in order of importance . |
| 3 | So they 're going to be the conscience and the parenting for that year group and I also suggested that at that time , I think what Rob 's doing is getting the children to look at themselves er , as regards what their strengths and weaknesses are and the P S D have got to clarify that . |
| 4 | Nevertheless they were held to be in contempt but , the strike having collapsed , no penalty was imposed . |
| 5 | so , so you are , you are encouraging that and presumably if anybody sets anything up they 're going to be able to keep it . |
| 6 | Now they are campaigning to be allowed to take their pet cat with them . |
| 7 | The big difference is that before they just slipped into a publication schedule , whereas now they are going to be ‘ published ’ . |
| 8 | So good rule is work out the easy one first , now they 're going to be about the same , erm , otherwise they would n't be asking |
| 9 | Now they 're going to be pegged at last year 's level . |
| 10 | Now they were assumed to be — well , gay , but not in the sense he acknowledged . |
| 11 | Now they were going to be given a chance to put their money where their mouths were . |
| 12 | However , hags could assume many appearances ; often they were thought to be of enormous proportions , such as the giantess Grendel of Scandinavian legend , or the Blue Hag of the Highlands in Scotland , whose grey-blue cape was the swirling mist of the glens . |
| 13 | Well they 're bound to are n't they ? |
| 14 | The could be if you pop yourself there , he sits there and she sits there , you 're asking him a question , he 's not sure , he looks at her , so if you look you ca n't see what you 're doing , you want to be able to maintain eye contact with them both , yeah , one of the effective ways , well they 're going to be aware of the layout of the living room , this is their , this is their stage . |
| 15 | ‘ So , if you get wind of a rumour from Salome on , say , Bloggs International , which says that tomorrow they 're going to be taken over on very generous cash terms , then you buy as much Bloggs stock as you can . |
| 16 | Today they are asking to be heard — even on such an explosive subject as the war in Arabia . |
| 17 | The British Army knows when they send troops here they are going to be targets . |
| 18 | Ah I mean they will soften anyway and they are comfortable it 's just that the sides are a bit rigid at the moment but then they 're bound to be and they will give . |
| 19 | If ever they lose the ability to scavenge energy , and put it to use in repairing their own fabric , then they are said to be dead ; and they begin immediately to fall apart . |
| 20 | There 's none of the rigorous logic and choreographed confusion of real farce , and director Jude Kelly labours under the mistaken impression that if the characters rush around and shout a lot , then they are bound to be funny . |
| 21 | It has been suggested that , if a researcher is not sometimes surprised at what they observe , then they are failing to be as open-minded as they should . |
| 22 | If he uses the ruler to transfer a measurement from one piece of his work to another then they are going to be identical ; accuracy of the ruler does n't come into it . |
| 23 | Well , if they think they are going to follow me into the Multivite/Singletons First Division when I take over at Titford Polymers , then they are going to be bloody disappointed . |
| 24 | Its Hong Kong spokesman , Alan Rogers , said : ‘ If the Chinese were upset before then they are going to be very upset now . ’ |
| 25 | They were hailed in the media as breakthroughs — and then they were shown to be wrong either by their own authors or by others . |
| 26 | I did their first demos with them , and took the opportunity of telling them a few facts of life , saying that while it was nice to play guitar , if at the end of the line they were all broke then they were going to be very unhappy musicians who had missed their chance to be big , and so they had better take care of certain realities and do it right away . |
| 27 | But you can see why if you 're selling inappropriately , if you sell someone for example , a savings plan , and they cash it in the first four years , and they do n't even get what they paid in it , how they 're going to be very annoyed , because from what they could see , they were getting a savings plan . |
| 28 | The National Sound Archive does n't claim to be the natural home for gramophones or other equipment , but it does have a small historical collection , because to understand the recordings , some knowledge of how they were meant to be played is desirable . |
| 29 | The Walshes had been caught in a strange yet powerful trap and it was difficult to see how they were going to be able to break free . |
| 30 | Consequently they are said to be only suitable for the rarified world of HQ where men with no ‘ bottle ’ and the non-combatants have fled . |