Example sentences of "[noun sg] they be be " in BNC.
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| 1 | No wonder they are being abolished . |
| 2 | He says they need to fit the man to the parish and at the moment they 're are just no suitable openings . |
| 3 | At the moment they are being commissioned by the city to look at access to hotels and guest houses . |
| 4 | The diet they 're being fed does n't contain enough energy or calories . |
| 5 | If it does n't , the institutions should be prepared to exercise their power and veto the 10 in one package they are being bullied into . |
| 6 | Women complain , not just about the pill , but the ideological package they are being asked to swallow : |
| 7 | Shades of Ireland , he thought : Colonel Smith and his power games that kept his minions in ignorance of the danger they were being manipulated into facing . |
| 8 | For a limited period they 're being offered an alternative to prosecution … it 's a short , sharp lesson on the dangers of speeding . |
| 9 | But inch by inch they were being driven back . |
| 10 | Last time I visited No. 3 Commando they were being heavily mortared . |
| 11 | Today by some bonus of chance they were being left there to enjoy it and had not been interrupted with a call for tea or to go for a swim with Dad who had just come home . |
| 12 | In the early and middle part of the decade they were being urged to leave the workforce as soon as possible , as a way of coping with high unemployment and large numbers of school leavers . |
| 13 | Last night they were being comforted by British friends at the resort . |
| 14 | When justices are advised not to have regard to statements of evidence and to medical reports on that ground they are being deprived of potentially valuable material in these difficult cases and I wish to make it clear that hearsay evidence is available to assist the court in all these cases although its weight will always be a matter for the judgment of the court . |
| 15 | This caused the peasantry to revolt in the belief they were being robbed of 11 days wages and that they would die that much sooner . |
| 16 | And they may be torn three ways , between the practical direction they are getting in the school , the advice they are being given in college and by their teaching practice tutor , and their own developing sense of the kind of teacher they would or would not like to become . |
| 17 | People can not openly speak their minds or be quite at ease , in case they are being spied on — not by the KGB or the government , but by ‘ patriot ’ or ‘ loyalist ’ terrorists . |
| 18 | The cunning sods had pretended to drive off — in case they were being observed — and had then reversed the vehicle into its original position . |
| 19 | Although there can never be any guarantees , it is frequently the case that older children enjoy working with younger ones , enjoy the responsibility they are being given , and behave much better than they do when they are working on their own . |
| 20 | On the contrary they are being wiped out as the loggers introduce new diseases , alcohol and guns along with the roads they are driving through the rainforest . |
| 21 | To restore the walls to their former glory they are being completely stripped and cleaned , with the plasterwork and paintings being reapplied , now using only material that will breathe . |
| 22 | Come to laugh , no doubt , and what a splendid opportunity they were being presented with ! |
| 23 | The last thing they are are experts on making money . |
| 24 | So I I think it started on an informal basis , you know everyone was just a little bit fed up with the way they 're being treated and the way you know been told how much we could earn , how we could earn it , when when we could earn it and all this sort of palaver . |
| 25 | With Mr John Smith , Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer , emerging as the clear favourite to succeed Mr Kinnock , there were protests from senior Labour MPs about the way they were being rushed into choosing a new leader . |
| 26 | In this experiment as in the other loan choice questions , people must have gathered that both APR and total credit cost mattered because of the way they were being questioned about them . |
| 27 | Although the general tenor of the Radcliffe Report cast some doubt on the strength of monetary methods of control — at least in the way they were being used at the time — monetary and fiscal instruments of control continued to be used to regulate the economy . |
| 28 | Now either , either we have , ei either you accept that and y y you 're saying n not only in terms of land reform is the Communist Party prepared to see poor peasants being allocated less than subsistence land but even when they are allocated land they 're being taxed on their income even though it 's well below subsistence . |
| 29 | Potatoes were enjoying an unprecedented popularity amongst all classes of society ; in the houses of the aristocracy they were being marinaded in champagne , poached in wine and decorated with truffles . |
| 30 | I think they 're unfair questions to respond to erm if you look at the potential calls on the contingency budget in the forthcoming year they 're been outlined by the officers . |