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

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1 The advantages of longitudinal studies are that they make it possible to study change over time , though as a series of snapshots rather than as a continuous process .
2 I 've not been but they say there are .
3 Once you 've made your call , they might ask you to stay by the phone erm , to contact you back it might be that they ask you did you want anybody contacted to tell them that , that you 've broken down , they will do that for you .
4 And I wonder if it seems to be that they prefer you come out of the upper drawer than come up with your brilliant A levels or whatever .
5 ‘ Might it be , I 'm only hazarding a guess , you realize that , but might it be that they want you to get them out here again ? ’
6 The answer must be that they have nothing to do with crofting as such , and little to do with agriculture , although there are agricultural problems .
7 May be if they taught us about it at school boys would find it easier to talk to a girl about sex and things like that . ’
8 cunt , wonder what that would be if they put it in a dictionary .
9 Erm , you see they were dyed on the wrong side you know they were of course it was easier to penetrate than it would be if they dyed them on the right side you see , it was technically i far far superior .
10 When the Minister next meets representatives of the industry , what will his answer be if they tell him that our poultry meat inspection charges are not subsidised , unlike those of our European Community competitors ?
11 I think it is tough for BD because the midfield have their own way of playing which they 've had since the first season back , and Chapman knew where to be cos they built it round him .
12 If she did not see fit to prevent their actions , it must be because they served her purposes .
13 It may be because they thought he has access to money or stores it there but that information is wrong .
14 It could only be because they had something to hide .
15 ‘ How long will it be before they give me the all-clear , do you think ? ’
16 Alright , th the saying in the paper , they 're talking about stopping these big companies , keeping these little companies waiting there could be something they can do about that , but how long is it going to be before they do something ?
17 If things were as they seemed it would n't matter .
18 So we basically done to what that is although they said they were just gon na dri , drill a one point nine five
19 are reasonably senior , and the great thing is once they do you one favour that 's it , and it 's better because rather than have , for example a junior police officer , who has no idea of covering his tracks
20 Prior to his arrival Sotheby 's ( still specialising heavily in books at this date ) had an unwritten agreement with Christie 's that they sent them any pictures brought to their offices and in return Christie 's sent them any books they received for sale .
21 We are led to the conclusion that 11a is grammatically but not semantically deviant by the fact that substitutes for bake which normalise the sentence ( e.g. shake , forsake ) , as a class , have no distinctive semantic attributes ( that is to say , members of the class share no characteristic patterns of co-occurrence with other open set elements that differentiate them from non-members ) ; however , they do share a grammatical peculiarity , which is that they form their past participles with — en .
22 Perhaps a telling comment on this is that a major reason for the recruitment of top , superannuated civil servants into business is that they know their way round the political labyrinth of Whitehall .
23 Our experience of the average guitarist is that they know what they want and they wo n't be fooled into buying fresh air simply on the strength of a good review !
24 ‘ The only problem is that they taught me to swear like a trooper . ’
25 The great thing about families is that they keep your feet firmly on the ground — sometimes more firmly than you 'd like .
26 Quite apart from anything else , the most likely immediate consequence for them is that they lose their jobs . ’
27 The importance of these is that they make you think and help you recognise what it is that ‘ makes you tick ’ .
28 The proof of the pudding is in the eating , and the proof of people skills is that they make it as likely as possible that we achieve our objectives with people .
29 The only problem with the guides is that they tell you little of the quality of the goods in the shop .
30 Another problem with aggregates is that they hide their constituent elements .
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