Example sentences of "[adj] they [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we include fairy stories in our consideration of ‘ the short story ’ , we realise how central they have been to our childhood , adolescence and adulthood , too : how we have pored eagerly over them because we ourselves , like Snow White , have feared our mother 's envy ; because , like Little Briar Rose , we imagine the gap between the child and the woman to stretch over a hundred years ; because , like Cinderella , we long to be protected by the good mother from the bad mother . |
| 2 | Obviously , the ability to continue someone else 's work is very dependent on how disciplined they have been in identifying work to be done and returning successful work to LIFESPAN . |
| 3 | For many men the most important grieving they do is over the loss of their work when made redundant or on retirement . |
| 4 | That hurt , especially after all they had been through together . |
| 5 | They know the truth : that life with an aged parent can be a strange mixture of joy and sorrow , and all they ask is for that fact to be accepted , not glossed over by their family and society , and then to be offered some practical ideas on how to make the best of a good job , which they consider to be well worth doing . |
| 6 | Simon now lives at a nursing home in Hampshire … but after all they 've been through together , he 's spending time with his mum and dad . |
| 7 | This father insisted that all they wanted was for their children to receive a schooling based on English traditions and values . |
| 8 | Feeling a twinge of guilt because she 'd inadvertently brought it all up when all they wanted was for it to remain buried , and pushing aside for the moment the whys and wherefores of her grandfather 's involvement , Ellie apologised quietly , ‘ I 'm sorry . |
| 9 | All they wanted was for him to sit still as a stone — to be a piece of scenery , a decoration like one of the stone angels he had watched the Mason carve , up in the roofs of churches . |
| 10 | But since the replicase is just a protein molecule like any other , the versatile protein-building machines of the bacterial cell can easily turn to building them , just as the machine tools in a car factory can quickly be turned over in time of war to making munitions : all they need is to be fed the right blueprints . |
| 11 | She thought how rough they had been with each other , how savage almost , sometimes in an odd way wanting to be done so that they could begin all over again . |
| 12 | What little they spoke was in the specially reverent voice reserved by the middle classes for times of bereavement . |
| 13 | At a media briefing in the House of Commons , the five main polling organisations — Gallup , Harris , ICM , NOP and MORI — reminded political editors and other interested journalists how accurate they had been in the past . |
| 14 | Instead , it reflected how successful they had been in aggressively promoting their rather indifferent work . |
| 15 | Later in the post it should be established how successful they have been in doing so . |
| 16 | The follow-up survey planned for Spring 1985 will test just how successful they have been in job search . |
| 17 | Another approach to the competence question has been to ask clients , retrospectively , how satisfied they have been with the service they have had ( Rosenthal 1974 ) . |