Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not advisable to try and cut them out yourself as they tend to be close to the skin . |
| 2 | They tend to be sensitive to every change in the atmosphere ; they can not get the temperature exactly right . |
| 3 | I have been to the Benefits Agency in my constituency , where the manager and staff made it plain to me that if staff were concerned about their safety they would not wear a name badge — but most of them want to because they want to be able to be identified by the public , so that if someone rings up a week later he can identify the person to whom he spoke a week before . |
| 4 | They appear to be insensitive to semantic and iconic similarity but differ on decrement in performance with signs which are similar in their physical components ( i.e. handshape , movement etc . ) . |
| 5 | In spite of their success they seemed to be vulnerable to extirpation in a way that some of the less imaginative molluscs , like the bivalves seemed to be immune . |
| 6 | Just as they are subordinate to trade unions at home , so they yearn to be subordinate to trade unions abroad . |
| 7 | once you 've got these gipsies on your permanent site , are they going to be liable to the Community Charge ? |
| 8 | " The forest is left to the mercy of the loggers , who do what they like without being accountable to anyone . " |
| 9 | Speculators are positively magnetised to situations which they believe to be contrary to the product of natural forces and as a result will not last . |
| 10 | Sentence linguists follow one of two procedures : they either invent their examples for analysis , using their own intuitive knowledge as native speakers ( their linguistic competence ) as a yardstick , or they take language which people have actually used and remove all the features which they believe to be irrelevant to their purposes . |
| 11 | The diversity of munition products is exemplified by , on the one hand , the gun and aperture sights for the American Lewis guns , high precision work ( they had to be correct to less than a thousandth part of an inch ) of which 27 , 900 were produced , and on the other hand the unpacking and assembly of the American-manufactured Mercer and Hyster Mobile Cranes , 169 of the former and 207 of the latter being dealt with in addition to 37 Elwell Parker Lift Trucks . |
| 12 | They also had to survive the effect of a highly corrosive atmosphere at red heat and a hundred times the atmospheric pressure on Earth , and of course they had to be transparent to infrared radiation . |
| 13 | ‘ Organisations move on , diversifying , moving into new activities , restructuring , ’ said Hardie , ‘ and they have to be alert to new risks . ’ |
| 14 | They have to be sensitive to the insecurities and low morale of many people working in education at present . |
| 15 | Their weight , although so small , responds to the force of gravity , and the little hairs they balance upon are sensitive to their movement In the ordinary way , it 's all part of the service . |
| 16 | They need to be alive to the balance between their own needs for intimacy and independence as well as those of their partner . |
| 17 | They need to be tight to be waterproof , but these needed so much force I was scared of breaking the tube , although this did not happen . |
| 18 | Nurses should not pry but they need to be sensitive to any cues which indicate a patient 's desire to discuss anxieties . |
| 19 | They thought that they were right about the war ; they did not like awkward gaps in conversation ; they wanted to be friendly to people they felt sorry for ; they felt the natural human contempt for the way in which the Almighty ran the universe and yet their full share of human resignation towards it . |