Example sentences of "[noun pl] they [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What parties they 'd been to when they were young , and Tom Reynard was holding court for his friends and their children . |
| 2 | The funds they receive are for specific services — hence the term ‘ fund accounting ’ . |
| 3 | Writers and the books they produced were of the same type , full of antiquarian information and the archaic vocabulary that went with it . |
| 4 | Some people defend television by pointing out that , though children read less as they grow older , the actual number of books they read is on the increase . |
| 5 | Many of them are well known , such as Edinburgh Castle and Stirling Castle , but we have to ensure that people are aware that some of the lesser-known sites they visit are in the care of Historic Scotland , and that they realise many more are on offer , ’ says Bill . |
| 6 | This book is about the transcendent worlds but some of the ideas of the philosophers of old are so noble and inspiring that the emotions they arouse are of the peak experience . |
| 7 | This has been in part because the universities have a perfectly general responsibility for disseminating among schools up-to-date advances in knowledge and theoretical changes within disciplines , but also , more specifically , through the Local Examination Boards they have been in a position to determine the syllabuses for public examinations , and so to a large extent to dictate a curriculum even for those pupils at school who may never themselves enter the door of a university . |
| 8 | So many places they had been to , so many people … |
| 9 | If we accept that we can not prevent science and technology from changing our world , we can at least try to ensure that the changes they make are in the right directions . |
| 10 | But perhaps the most crucial changes they made were to what Gordon referred to as the " macrostructure signalling " within the passage . |
| 11 | The later books are in large measure accurately described , and the experience of the assimilated Jew in Italy , where the Jews came to harm under Mussolini but where they were never the strangers they have been in several other countries , is summarised in a well-informed and pertinent fashion . |
| 12 | But it may be that the things they have been through these past few hundred years have exaggerated some of their original characteristics . |
| 13 | The gestures they make are at one with their interesting footwork . |
| 14 | These committees have issued various guidelines ( on such matters as shareholders ' pre-emption rights , employee share incentive schemes , and discounts to market price on share issues ) which they require companies to follow if the institutions they represent are to be expected to invest in and support them . |
| 15 | All the phone calls they received were for him , and Gina never had any mail . |
| 16 | A great many assessment systems are competitive in that the extrinsic rewards they offer are in short supply and each student who wants them is asked to demonstrate that he or she is more deserving than others , or others are less deserving . |
| 17 | Our participants lived on a large 1960s council estate on the outskirts of a county town and the schoolrooms they describe were in the local comprehensive school situated on the estate . |
| 18 | But they only shots they encountered were from cameras . |
| 19 | The prophets they portray were at once more civilized than their masters and more closely in touch with the divine will . |
| 20 | They have to communicate to their public and explain how the services they provide are of value . |
| 21 | Although the history of Scotmid is very much of local interest , the carriages they collected are of national importance . |
| 22 | The magnates ruled the localities by the end of the thirteenth century as political bosses , rather than as the petty princes they had been in the twelfth century . |
| 23 | We must remember , too , that Dissenters in the 18th century were not the political revolutionaries they had been in the 17th — there was a sense in which the rabid Nonconformity of one generation became the established respectability of the next , and commentators like Halevy have suggested that it was precisely the innate conservatism of the new dissent , Methodism , which helped stave off revolution in England in the early 19th century — a real opium of the people , in effect . |
| 24 | Thus we need to be especially careful what we do with young horses so that the habits they establish are in their interests and not to their detriment . |