Example sentences of "they [am/are] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ They never have any trouble with their parents most of them are too wrapped up in their work and their money to take an interest in what their children are doing anyway . |
| 2 | Instead of the dominant males moving in and taking over the females during the breeding period , they are simply allowed in for mating only and then driven out again . |
| 3 | This constitutes a ritualistic burning of the books in which the characters were conceived ; they are thus taken out of the ‘ old world ’ of their origins and made to embark on an adventure in the ‘ new world ’ of Brooke-Rose 's novel . |
| 4 | Wordsworth did not comment much on these matters in the first edition of his Guide but they are clearly set out in the second edition ( 1820 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ Sometimes they are even hunted down like animals . |
| 6 | They are well spread out down the long narrow winding village , built originally along the edge of marshland , hence the ‘ Sea-ton ’ . |
| 7 | Instead they are normally closed out by an offsetting sale or purchase beforehand . |
| 8 | Once they have finished and died down , they are best planted out in the garden . |
| 9 | But Lévi-Strauss is arguing that kinship systems serve a similar discursive role and that they are similarly constructed out of units of meaning . |
| 10 | They are also propped up by several other factors . |
| 11 | These slow waves pervade the head to the extent that they are also picked up by the EOG electrodes , just as K complexes are . |
| 12 | They are frequently hauled off to prison and treated very badly , beaten and insulted , at times , even raped . |
| 13 | They are intimately bound up with sense perception and consciousness . |
| 14 | When you request facilities which may take time to process ( for , transferring modules into and out of LIFESPAN ) , they are automatically set up as background activities . |
| 15 | When you request facilities which may take time to process ( for example , transferring modules into and out of LIFESPAN ) , they are automatically set up as background activities . |
| 16 | We have tried numerous toddler catches but they are invariably pulled off by over-enthusiastic visitors who do not understand them . |
| 17 | Some sociologists have researched ‘ counter school ’ youth cultures , and how they are naturally carried over onto the shopfloor . |
| 18 | Studying the history of marriage customs may show that some of today 's reproductive practices may not be as revolutionary as they are sometimes made out to be . |
| 19 | ‘ They are as fed up with me as you are , but they wo n't stop me taking leave . ’ |
| 20 | The effect on our own accounts is that we now show all the mainstream activities of the Council together , and they are then separated out from the entries for all the other funds , appeals , and trust funds and so on . |
| 21 | ‘ Students took them to their Woolworth stores and they are then passed on to us . |
| 22 | A major issue for research is how these pressures become incorporated in the policies of strategic management and how they are then propagated down through the management organization , changing the environment in which middle and lower levels of management operate , and altering the constraints on their handling of industrial relations questions . |
| 23 | When they are so wrapped up in themselves and their problems , and , they are so hard done by ? |
| 24 | It may prove difficult because individuals may not be able to see the whole of the organisation since they are so wrapped up in their own specialised part of it . |
| 25 | and it goes through their , for the rest of their twenties , the rest of their thirties and most of their forties and then suddenly bang maybe something ghastly seems to be happening which they are absolutely unaware of , you know , they do n't know why they are crying or , or er unable to cope with whatever they ca n't cope with and that 's it , that 's them off and they start worrying about er osteoporosis and you know an enormous number of , of now medically defined problems of the menopause , and they may start going on to all sorts of things like hormone replacement therapy or even primrose oil or whatever the hell and they 're sitting there at an age when they are fairly loaded up with experience and maturity and all the rest of it and they do n't know what they are doing . |
| 26 | They are rightly fed up of people carrying out their business so blatantly . |
| 27 | Richard Harris and Gene Hackman have been in Westerns before but never one as good as this ( indeed , Harris ' character 's inflation of his own pompous myth relates to the sham of his A Man Called Horse ) , which is a key to their characterisations and the way they are constantly stacked up against Eastwood . |
| 28 | ( This also gives the texts of the statutes , but they are often broken up between different titles in rather an inconvenient way , which is one of the reasons why the text in Statutes in Force is preferable . ) |
| 29 | There are simple spinelets scattered over the dorsal surface of the disk although they are often rubbed off in preserved specimens . |
| 30 | They can be so noisy that they are often switched off during an autopsy , increasing the level of air pollution and the risk of acquisition of air-borne infections . |