Example sentences of "[vb past] they [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However mangled they might be — in pidgin , for example — European languages took with them European concepts . |
| 2 | Some editors believed they would be better off if they refused to take advantage of the new rules and continued to let the censor see their material in manuscript . |
| 3 | Earlier this morning Home Office forensic experts were called in as the police believed they may be dealing with a murder investigation . |
| 4 | Though inspectors have no enforcement powers , Wing believed they should be free to point out difficult areas of practice . |
| 5 | In fact there appears to be no doubt that Stalin simply resented the independence that the Yugoslav leaders were displaying and believed they could be brought to heel as easily as communist leaders in other parts of Eastern Europe . |
| 6 | He said yesterday : ‘ I have been contacted and told they will be holding a meeting of all agencies next month to discuss the matter . |
| 7 | She ( Mary ) would use it first and anybody else was free to use it … three or four signified they would be interested . |
| 8 | The men who were acquitted , Danial Winter , who 's 19 , and Wisdom Smith , who 's also 19 , had nothing to say after the judge directed they should be found not guilty . |
| 9 | Members of the committee voted to refuse planning permission for the petrol station and housing development but added they might be willing to consider an application for houses alone . |
| 10 | The airfield was then inspected on foot by the six officers following which all were in agreement that conditions were far from satisfactory and McGuinness advised they should be prepared for accidents and possible aircraft losses . |
| 11 | If the time came they 'd be directing operations from there and they 'd want to know just who they were directing where they were placed in British society — everything . |
| 12 | The element of the image which suggests that as a matter of principled obligation all members of a group rushed to the aid of , say , an aggressive and irresponsible cattle-thief or rapist , may therefore be the product of the practical consideration that men related to an offender prudently assumed they would be held collectively responsible for his actions . |
| 13 | When Dr Haritos-Fatouros began her research 15 years ago into the minds of torturers — particularly those who served the Greek dictatorship of 1967–74 — she assumed they must be sadists . |
| 14 | Some businesses vowed they would be back today and a number of ‘ business as usual ’ signs had already gone up around shop windows . |
| 15 | West Yorkshire police confirmed they would be investigating the case . |
| 16 | A statement from the club confirmed they would be staying in Edinburgh . |
| 17 | Last night they confirmed they will be offering only 619 seats to Tottenham fans for the final League game of the season at Old Trafford on May 2 . |
| 18 | Granada Television confirmed last night confirmed they will be covering the match on Wednesday for Tyne Tees Television . |
| 19 | In fact , our research showed they would be quite surprising to customers and non-customers alike . |
| 20 | And they showed they will be far from easy meat for England in Saturday week 's Twickenham Test . |
| 21 | If the proposals leaked they would be dynamite inside the health service , and yet they had come round with only the routine ‘ confidential ’ security classification . |
| 22 | Afterwards , both men claimed they should be given the place in Rome though Smith admitted to being ‘ embarrassed ’ by his effort . |
| 23 | Besides , I reasoned they would be trite . |
| 24 | Besides , I reasoned they would be trite . |
| 25 | If this happened they would be terror-stricken . |
| 26 | In 1988 , Karl Ludvigsen came out with a study that two of the big six would go away — he predicted they would be GM and Renault . |
| 27 | I reckoned they would be better off not being involved in our constant battles . |
| 28 | He sometimes thought it would be pleasant to lie in bed with his wife on Sunday mornings , now that there were no children to interrupt them , but Donna reckoned they should be through with all that kind of stupidity , so he was resigned to the sporadic consolation of his Métis up north . |
| 29 | They had the power of constriction , and Anne guessed they would be sticky to the touch . |
| 30 | Croom-Johnson J. plainly thought that he is ; one of the reasons advanced for accepting the contentions of the appellant was that , if the law were otherwise , the ‘ well meaning ’ defendant who went to the aid of the police and accidentally obstructed them would be guilty of an offence . |