Example sentences of "they [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What all of them contend is that the auditory effect of all English-language verse can only in a schematic and starveling fashion be pin-pointed by applying the only two measurements that traditional scansion recognizes : on the one hand the number of syllables , on the other the number of occurrences of ictus or ‘ stress ’ . |
| 2 | Gangs of men were at work trying to rescue the contents of the burning shacks , going from one to another , putting out the fires ; or so I thought till with a shock it came to me that these were no rescuers but incendiaries , that the battle I saw them waging was not with the flames but with the rain . |
| 3 | Some of them included are Lauren Harris , David Milne , William Stevenson and Clark McDougall ( 7–30 May ) . |
| 4 | There are laws against discrimination but to get them respected is another matter . |
| 5 | The second edition of this guide to medicines for older people and those who help care for them has been published by Age Concern England . |
| 6 | True each of them has been finely tuned . |
| 7 | The objective of the other forms of nationalization was clearly similar and the effect of each of them has been to reduce foreign ownership in the corporate sector to a relatively modest level . |
| 8 | However , none of them has been found in an archaeological context and they have aroused considerable suspicion : they could be relatively modern copies loosely based on Italic originals ; they could be genuine prehistoric imports ; or they could be perfectly genuine figures brought to Britain relatively recently as curios and since discarded or lost . |
| 9 | Those who do not believe in delegation to committees argue that each of them has been elected by the public to watch their interests and therefore they should each have a voice in the decisions of every committee . |
| 10 | The first pre-retirement courses were held in the United States in 1949 , but it is only in the last ten to fifteen years that the need for them has been recognised in the United Kingdom . |
| 11 | None of them has been identified , so all the old grannies are champing toothlessly today . ’ |
| 12 | It would seem that everything between them has been ruined — but no , they decide to treat the day as if it had never been ; and when he has gone Emily picks up her goose-quill pen and again writes ‘ Dear Edmund ’ . |
| 13 | They were allowed to see it for one hour , before it was taken back , and none of them has been able to get hold of it since . |
| 14 | Each of them has been transformed into a breathtaking beauty ! |
| 15 | Although notice accounts are normally worthwhile , the return on them has been cut so much that there 's little reason for people to choose them over postal accounts . |
| 16 | I think one of them has been trying to talk to me . ’ |
| 17 | Alas , they were not safe , and what happened to them has been a matter of considerable argument . |
| 18 | Shown as a single work of art at the Tate Gallery and three other European museums in 1962–63 , those six canvases were subsequently divided and sold separately , and none of them has been included in any recent exhibition of Bacon 's art . |
| 19 | In fact , most people publish in the hope that their findings will continue to be relevant long after the particular theory to which they have attached them has been finally laid to rest . |
| 20 | Competition among them has been intense in the past decade as a result of the switch to reimbursement based on diagnostic related groups rather than historic costs , a difficult regulatory environment aimed at reducing short stay hospital capacity and at cost containment , and a much tougher climate for research funding . |
| 21 | In terms of bed numbers it has substantially more relative to population than either London or New York , but like them has been closing short stay beds steadily since the mid-1970s . |
| 22 | Find out if any of them has been linked to Hendrique over the past few months . |
| 23 | Prominent among them has been the thesis of the American sociologist Robert Merton to the effect that the values associated with Protestant asceticism gave a positive stimulus to the practical sciences . |
| 24 | " Not one of them has been stolen since the seed was sown . |
| 25 | None of them has been offended ; they 've all been fantastically enthusiastic and supportive . ’ |
| 26 | My dialogue with them has been an important part of the process of valuing their own contributions . |
| 27 | Most significant for them has been the need to adapt to the much greater degree of bureaucratic organization which has followed the 1973 Act , the great landmark in their careers . |
| 28 | So sharply have the battle lines been drawn between Soviet , liberal and libertarian historians that fruitful debate between them has been all but impossible . |
| 29 | There are other difficulties in making an order in such a case as this where a number of defendants have been equally involved in committing a crime , for the purpose of which a vehicle belonging to one of them has been used . |
| 30 | The objection therefore is that since power and property have separated , the legitimating link between them has been broken . |