Example sentences of "and they [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's laid out but the plants look healthy and they 're kept in healthy conditions . |
| 2 | So , I had a look at the powers of the police authority and they 're restricted to financial and administrative responsibilities and if I took that argument further , of course the Chief Constable has to take that into account . |
| 3 | These two conceptions of the state provide a familiar antithesis in the history of political thought , and they are repeated in various forms , often tacitly conveyed , in modern political science . |
| 4 | At present special requests have to be submitted and justified if calls are to be made ; they are made in the presence of an officer and they are charged at far in excess of the ‘ normal ’ rate because of the need to ask the operator to ring back with the cost — for which a surcharge is made . |
| 5 | Secondly are systems of complex disorder where there are large numbers of components and therefore of variables but only weak linkages between them , and they are handled by probabilistic methods of statistical mechanics . |
| 6 | Sportsmen are not born : they are made and they are made through social processes . |
| 7 | The results also cover much longer periods than are possible with modern experimental field studies and they are based on direct evidence of intercomparable past conditions . |
| 8 | These sandstones form the bulk of the stark Assynt peaks : Quinag , Canisp , Suilven and Ben More Assynt ; and they are topped with sparkling quartz of the Moine Series , thrust to the surface by the tremendous geological forces which shook planet earth some 430 million years ago . |
| 9 | Students ' previous mathematical knowledge is extended and they are introduced to new areas of mathematical studies such as probability and statistics , the application of statistical methods to the collection and analysis of data , computer programming and the use of custom-built software packages . |
| 10 | With his parents and sister involved as well , Larkins Brewery produces up to 30 barrels a week ( each barrel is 36 gallons ) and they are sold to discerning pubs in Kent and Sussex . |
| 11 | Sessions last one hour and they are grouped with similar children as far as possible . |
| 12 | And so , as predicted , two buckets of pigs blood were poured over the two of them and they were received by hysterical laughter . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , these historical manifestations of class action took many different forms , their effects were diverse , and they were related in various ways to other social movements and groups . |
| 14 | Both families had ties with greater men , who were more concerned with affairs of State , and they were affected by political turmoil , particularly the Stonors , who suffered forfeiture in 1483 for rebelling against Richard III , but both had come through the earlier phase of the dynastic struggle with relatively minor scars . |
| 15 | On 13 December 1991 emergency protection orders were made in respect of two children , D. , born on 20 February 1990 , and R. , born on 12 October 1991 , and they were placed with foster parents . |
| 16 | The band was two accordions and the tunes were chaloupés and javas valsées , penetrating , jerky , fast , and they were danced with extreme devotion and virtuosity . |
| 17 | Well they were ma and they were made with vegetarian suet . |
| 18 | But from the sides of their mouths projected the glistening tusks of boars , and they were crowned with great , bristling manes of stiff hair that ran down to the base of their spines . |
| 19 | Irons and radios had been the only appliances owned by the majority of consumers before the War and they were joined by electric fires at the end of it . |
| 20 | The old fabric biplanes were entirely satisfactory but then they were made out of small pieces of wood , they were well ventilated and they were kept in good dry hangars . |
| 21 | Far from it , personal publicity could hinder their work and they were engaged in serious business . |
| 22 | er they also brought out some a good range of lighting fittings er , which you still see about again used well I , I remember putting one , you saying about putting lights at different levels , erm a staircase which was in a new house which was architect design and built and erm , the staircase was er more or less centrally in the house rather than be stuck against one wall and so it had a well and down the centre of the well we strung one of these lights with er five different glasses suspended on black flex five black flexes and erm these were shades made of heavy glass er the glass was n't painted it was coloured all the way through , er and erm they were called er Chelsea , Chelsea glasswork and erm these each had a lamp inside them well er about three inch diameter cylinders actually about eight inches long and they were hung at different heights er so that the lip behind the staircase and also of course there 's a staircase being where it was , it was in the centre of er , a , quite a large hallway for modern stand for modern standards and erm it of course was a feature of the hall as well . |
| 23 | The king penguins , biggest in size and slowest to mature , moved into the crèche area ( off limits to visitors , but just behind the main penguin pool ) until they , too , had fledged , and they were put on public display during the summer . |
| 24 | And they were glazed with opaque white glass so that the patients could n't see out either , nor passers-by see in . |
| 25 | In 1974 the structure changed and they were taken from local authorities and amalgamated within the new health authorities — first area , and then later ( 1982 ) district , health authorities . |
| 26 | The loan slips would then be used to enter the data into the microcomputer and they were filed in alphabetical order by title . |
| 27 | The animals were maintained in a restricted access room with controlled temperature ( 23°C ) and a light-dark cycle ( 12 hours : 12 hours ) , and they were housed in rack-mounted cages , each containing a maximum of six rats . |
| 28 | They stopped reporting incidents to the police when repeatedly no action was taken , and they were subjected to racial abuse from police officers . |
| 29 | All branches received some and they were left in public places . |
| 30 | All branches received some and they were left in public places . |