Example sentences of "[pron] they [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The African National Congress condemned the attack which they said was by shadowy forces , intent on encouraging violence in the volatile black Ciskei homeland . |
| 2 | These and many other factors are of great importance to practising physicians , but to do justice to them and to the controversies which they provoked is beyond the purpose of this book . |
| 3 | Some felt a leaping in their spirits at the moment when the announcement was made at the AGM , something which they knew was from God . |
| 4 | Fortunately for frail elderly people , there are many who offer altruistic neighbouring acts , that is to say , they are done without assumptions of reciprocity ; the gratification which they obtain is in a sense their own private business ! |
| 5 | They were overheating in the Med , which they claimed was like swimming in spit . |
| 6 | Since the existing rules applied to a serf-based society , suspending them implied that the social order on which they depended was to be altered . |
| 7 | Their courage in entering into the conflict and their presence of mind in circumstances in which they have been in enormous danger are a great tribute to the individuals themselves and to the institution that sent them . |
| 8 | The approach which they employed was by using hard systems which are capable of specification , analysis and manipulation in a more or less rigorous and quantitative manner ; soft systems which are not tractable by mathematical methods ; by exploring examples ; and by combining interdisciplinary approaches by reviewing the dilemmas which confront man 's intervention in natural systems . |
| 9 | Everyone arrives with a stack of singles which they think are worth considering for the playlist . |
| 10 | Indeed , the way in which they interact is of crucial importance . |
| 11 | For example , many of the houses which they buy are in the most remote or inconvenient situations and would otherwise have been abandoned by the local residents . |
| 12 | There is one exception to all these payments in that parish , town or community councillors are not entitled to receive payment when the duty which they perform is within the area of the parish or community . |
| 13 | But Merseyside Labour MPs yesterday denounced the verdict which blamed Mr Evans of Wigan who they said was under the orders of the starter , Captain Keith Brown . |
| 14 | All of the sample of Rowdies were able to plot very accurately where they had stood on the terraces over the last few years , who they had been with , and where they expected to be in the future . |
| 15 | They 'd been out and er I do n't know who they 'd been with like but he must of had a bit to drink . |
| 16 | Everything they do is for their children . |
| 17 | everything they need is on the result table over there |
| 18 | It was a tradition that avoided any real contemplation of the root causes of German unease ; their preference for ‘ action ’ , rested secure in the knowledge that everything they did was for the good of the nation , sanctioned by law and sanctioned by the German people . |
| 19 | ‘ Everything they did was for their business . |
| 20 | No this is , cos Marion and Matthew they like Indians and they go both me ma , start again , they like Indian meals and they 've been round to quite a few and they said this is the best one they 've been to . |
| 21 | Erm is one they 've been in a very similar position to in so much as competition 's forced them to cost down dramatically I mean |
| 22 | Firms like ICI in Runcorn have far more workers whom they claim are in danger of losing their jobs because of electricity costs . |
| 23 | Those whom they encountered were for the most part leading precarious lives ; they lacked the leisure , the mental energy , even the vocabulary , for speculation about the great issues of heaven and hell , death and judgement . |
| 24 | Next morning the stage manager took great pleasure in informing them they had been to a women-only club . |
| 25 | And of course the deterrents that we 've had , over the years , when they they 've been of the emotive and knee jerk sort , and I remember the short sharp shock for instance , under Whitelaw , they did n't work , because they were n't thought out , they were just to make them clap at the Tory party conference . |
| 26 | What they 'd been over there to a stallion ? |
| 27 | He used to sort of let the girls know what they 'd been at . |
| 28 | Some of his male colleagues boasted about how they 'd felt with various women , raising an arm to show what they 'd been like . |
| 29 | But what they produced were at best permanent monuments of erudition on which we still draw , and at worst giant-sized pamphlets which are now read , if at all , only for their interest as literature . |
| 30 | They do not need to go erm and th th they they have their own positions and I think a lot of what they speak is of genuine concern . |