Example sentences of "they [be] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had they been able to put down for a minute our in-depth features on Geraldo , Victor Sylvester and some accordions , they might have seen something half-decent on the box . |
| 2 | Now they are keen to get in on any cross-subsidisation themselves . |
| 3 | To ensure their proper fullness they are first blocked in with a broad contour-band ( the ‘ eighth-of-an-inch stripe ’ ) which gave the painter 's eye the sense of the background to come . |
| 4 | When they are first chipped out of the rock such fossils will often be partly concealed by matrix . |
| 5 | They are all made up of the same shapes-triangles , squares and rectangles . |
| 6 | She will lunch with selected guests in the new council offices , and an hour beforehand they are all turned out in their best suits and dresses fidgeting in anticipation . |
| 7 | They are all pumped up at the moment . |
| 8 | The typical interviewee profile of the ‘ recreational user ’ is that of ‘ dabbling ’ at weekends , usually sharing a ‘ bag ’ with a friend , then gradually filling in the days in between until they are all taken up by heroin use . |
| 9 | They are all growing up with the computer effortlessly . |
| 10 | Paul Twyman , of North Thanet said : ‘ The BMA are a trade union and they are entitled to stand up for their members ’ interests , but they are not entitled to abuse their professional position by deliberately scaremongering and frightening elderly patients . ’ |
| 11 | They are happy rooting around for Fly Agaric toadstools in a farmer 's back garden until he sets the dogs on them , and would be miserable if you dragged them up anything taller than a caravan . |
| 12 | So some banks will be forced to rely on retained earnings for shoring up their capital-adequacy ratios — unless they are ready to put up with a much slower growth in assets ( which few seem prepared to do ) . |
| 13 | They are afraid to stay in in case their doors are kicked in , but they are also afraid to go out in case their homes are done in while they are out . |
| 14 | Unemployment may mean that people have more leisure time available but lack of money restricts the kind of activities they are able to participate in during their spare time . |
| 15 | There are , however , many other situations in atomic and nuclear physics where there is some kind of barrier that particles should not be able to penetrate on classical principles but that they are able to tunnel through on quantum-mechanical principles . |
| 16 | The reason they have this versatility is that they are able to join up with no fewer than four other atoms at a time , to form chains or networks . |
| 17 | Students have to show that they understand what has been learned so deeply that they are able to look down on it and assess it critically for themselves . |
| 18 | With this in mind , one must be concerned with how fans gain admission to the Rowdies group , how they are able to progress socially within the group , and with how they are able to graduate out of the group . |
| 19 | Sadly , church people have often so dismally failed to get along with each other that they are powerless to get along with the needy in the world . |
| 20 | Picnickers explain that they are prepared to carry on in spite of the odds . |
| 21 | ‘ The letters are the firms , the numbers are the prices in pence of a typical Alpha stock and the volumes they are prepared to deal in at a particular time . |
| 22 | The question that Englishmen yes , and Englishwomen must decide is whether or not they are prepared to knuckle under to the unspeakable creep Mathews , the demented McLachlan and the absurd Bottomley . |
| 23 | Because of this , they are difficult to flush out of the aquifer under standard conditions , and in situ biodegradation may be the only technically and economically feasible way to achieve remediation . |
| 24 | Moreover they are difficult to get through to . |
| 25 | avoid doing it because the revenue are checking one in twenty cases , and if you 've got a partner who 's likely to pay , not to pay tax , that 's fine , if they are likely to roll over into tax , then do n't use an R eighty five . |
| 26 | They 've lived through history and know so much , which they 're certain to pass on to the rest of us . |
| 27 | Well we 've some of them queuing outside and they 're all they 're all queuing up for something and they 're going to get nothing each . |
| 28 | Oh they 're all lit up across their car . |
| 29 | They 're all fed up with this shit . |
| 30 | went to have a look in his bedrooms like and I they 're all done out in pine , every bedroom is done out in pine . |