Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And do n't be upset because they want to , girl . |
| 2 | He worries that the children would be upset when they saw it , so he rubs it off the wall . |
| 3 | One surprising aspect of the recall results was that they did not seem to be related to previous knowledge of the junctions , it had seemed possible that even simple junctions would be memorable if they had not been previously encountered . |
| 4 | He argues that servants were inclined to be discontented as they observed others climb in society . |
| 5 | Use the soft hyphen in words which would not be hyphenated if they fell in the middle of a line . |
| 6 | Such are the smooth , easy driving qualities of the big-engined Corrado ( the same engine is also available in the VW Golf and Vento saloons ) that I suspect that this is the sort of car that drivers will appreciate when they own it , be sorry when they sell it , and describe it for years as the finest car they ever owned . |
| 7 | On the face of it , such high commissions suggest a lack of price competitiveness , but as noted above , large institutional buyers are able to force distributors to share all or part of the selling concession , and prices may thus be lower than they appear . |
| 8 | But such a response implies that next period their stocks of goods will be lower than they feel is optimal , and they will therefore want to build them up again by producing more next period than they otherwise would . |
| 9 | Their rates tend to be lower because they do n't have to pay commission to middlemen . |
| 10 | I specifically asked if this upgrade would be possible and they assured me that it would . |
| 11 | GRAHAM TAYLOR now not only believes he will take England to the World Cup finals but that the draw against Brazil shows what might be possible when they get there . |
| 12 | It would be odd if they did , since feminists , like philosophers , do not speak with a single voice . |
| 13 | The language is not always clear as the dialects and slang can be confusing but they do convey the right atmosphere . |
| 14 | Of course some cases of self-regulation would be profitable because they increase trade ( an example might be the association of life insurance offices ) , but others might be socially desirable yet bedevilled by public good problems — who is to fund the regulatory body ? |
| 15 | For mentally ill people local care may be undesirable if they wish to be treated by anonymous carers rather than people who may live in their own locality . |
| 16 | In addition , such schools have to be self-financing until they have an adequate complement of pupils . |
| 17 | The Home Office sent a detective to report on the movements of ‘ the French people ’ — they were assumed to be foreign as they did not have a Somerset accent . |
| 18 | The chest may be painful and they hold it when coughing and lie on the painful side to keep it still and put pressure on it . |
| 19 | They know they will be different when they come back … for the better . ’ |
| 20 | Most will be empty because they have been repossessed from mortgage defaulters . |
| 21 | I 've also got to be careful because they 've got size eights upstairs as well that Robert got them |
| 22 | But Copernican thinking has already led astray many astronomers who should have known better , and we 'd best be careful when they use the same logic to try to convince us that we and our planet are nothing special . |
| 23 | In the village , mothers told their children this story to warn them to be careful when they went down to the river . |
| 24 | ‘ They must always be careful when they adjust and react to television that they do n't change the nature of their sport . |
| 25 | Port Vale are the only team certain to finish below Keegan 's men and , although Brighton would be another if they failed to beat Portsmouth at the Goldstone Ground on Wednesday , last day wins by Oxford ( at Tranmere ) and Plymouth ( at home to Blackburn ) would condemn Newcastle to Third Division football even if they drew at Leicester . |
| 26 | Never admit that anything can be wrong until they 've got to . ’ |
| 27 | Of course , the Snows could n't be funny if they tried . |
| 28 | They are only likely to be resentful if they suspect that their parents are acting from nothing better than outraged respectability . |
| 29 | But the important point is not that they would hesitate to do it , but that we would not be interested if they did . |
| 30 | While it may be straightforward to assess whether a lease is renewed properly or a contract accurately drafted — it will soon be clear if they have been or not — these transactions do n't carry much potential for building long-term relationships or adding value through additional services . |