Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] they [be] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It was declared the best policy was for the ‘ sent down ’ youth to remain where they were so that they could make their valuable contribution to the motherland on the ‘ agricultural front ’ , as in previous decades .
2 As part of our routine annual review of allocations , we shall continue to consider how best to ensure that funds are targeted where they are most needed .
3 But there are other causes of bad conditions as well as overcrowding : many prisons are old and decaying , and the newer prisons have often turned out to be so badly designed that they are not a noticeable improvement .
4 Although Prime Ministers may from time to time use words which suggest that they are not unwilling to exercise their power of appointment , in recent times there is no direct evidence that they have done so .
5 The functional characteristics of these two strong promoters suggest that they are not optimized for a tight and stable RNA polymerase binding .
6 One would expect such issues to be handled in the training , both pre- and in-service , of all teachers , but our collective experiences and the responses received to the main LITE questionnaire suggest that they are not .
7 However , Interactionists suggest that they are less frequently and vigorously applied .
8 Nor do his choral forces always suggest that they are home in the idiom .
9 Among the first people known to have used pearls for jewellery were the ancient Egyptians , who wore them as pendants to earrings and threaded onto necklaces alongside cowries , coral , scarabs and precious stones certainly as early as the middle of the second millennium B.C. Tomb paintings depict them wearing pearls on their clothing and chest-ornaments of mother-of-pearl suggest that they were already exploiting the Red Sea fisheries , later mentioned by Strabo and other Classical writers , by the twelfth dynasty .
10 They may not have been popular , indeed subsequent events suggest that they were not , but they were tolerated , and there is no evidence that Edward IV 's death was followed by an attempt to dislodge them .
11 On some tickets , notably the First Class to intermediate stations and the Plowden ‘ Golf ’ returns , numbers suggest that they were not even worth printing !
12 They may not have been popular , indeed subsequent events suggest that they were not , but they were tolerated , and there is no evidence that Edward IV 's death was followed by an attempt to dislodge them .
13 Why this 1% of 17 year olds still had a non-retractile foreskin was not stated , but data from a subsequent study suggest that they were probably suffering from balanitis xerotica obliterans .
14 Studies of individual towns suggest that they were severely hit , that properties were deserted and that in some cases parishes had to be united , as the existing ones were too poor to maintain the services of the Church ( 77 , pp.286–8 ) .
15 Mortality statistics , too , are not restricted to the unemployed : how do we know that they are not indicating greater health problems in the population as a whole during times of economic difficulty ?
16 " The Ingard board must know that they are nearly at the end of the road .
17 I work amongst the elderly and I do know that they are very shy about telling people just how poor they are .
18 If it is accepted that we are in possession of logically adequate criteria of particular-identification , I do not see how one could deny that such criteria are ever fulfilled ; for how else would we know that they are indeed adequate ?
19 This is , this is where Deborah will then go back , this is , comes into your three hour training so you wo n't have this problem cos they 'll all have been , they 'll all know that they 're just talking about certain things .
20 The glasses are in number four , they 've all been provided but they just Whether they do n't know that they 're there .
21 got to be the ones that are in charge , in other words the ones that have been mislead , God might overlook because they did n't know that they were probably being mislead
22 I do know that they were both very kind to their hired help and treated one or two more like sons than employees .
23 If only real hands could shape my contours , then at least I would know that they were still there .
24 They include , to give just a few examples , realizing that they have re-read the same page of a book three times without taking any of it in ; nearly getting knocked over crossing the road ; yelling ‘ Tie ! ’ at a pupil they do n't know ; noticing that they are both reading a magazine and watching the television while having their evening meal ; spotting the line of empty wine bottles that has accrued since the weekend .
25 And DM shoes — I do n't wear them , but a lot of my friends do , and you ca n't help noticing that they 're much better made than the shoes for girls , they last so much longer .
26 noticing that they were n't they get , I suppose you get to know who has what and that they thought
27 Sexual problems of the child may stem from any of the above considerations , although it must again be stressed that they are not inevitable .
28 Visitors are respectfully reminded that they are not permitted to feed any of the animals , this would spoil their carefully balanced diet .
29 Later generations were frequently reminded that they were once members of a slave community whom the Lord had mercifully redeemed from bondage .
30 Above all , to what extent can clinicians be persuaded to accept that they are financially and managerially accountable for their decisions ?
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