Example sentences of "they [be] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact over two million people in the UK have the disease , but only a quarter of them are getting any treatment . |
| 2 | Sorry One of the other tables you 've got shows you a comparison between the elements which are present in crustal rock and in the sea and from that you can see which ones are a good reflection , I E whi which elements have been transferred to the sea by direct weathering , and which of them are undergoing other processes , either other sources or other sinks . |
| 3 | All those are practical methods , all of them are working , and all of them are delivering better health care and will deliver faster health care . |
| 4 | These three big creatures dominate the composition , but around them are introduced small figures . |
| 5 | Some of them are missing six years and their families do not know if they are alive . ’ |
| 6 | Much to mummy and daddy 's despair , none of them are showing any inclination to . |
| 7 | Again the stone walls are dark and streaked with rain and age , and along them are ranged carved figures , many badly worn and now almost unrecognizable . |
| 8 | Negative , extremist , in them are fused sectarian party orthodoxy and individual self-deliverance . |
| 9 | A lot of them are having nervous breakdowns or sort of ruining their family life because |
| 10 | Many of them are having more babies . |
| 11 | A lot of them are studying other things besides Italian and so they take time off to prepare for exams . |
| 12 | A group of residents in an old peoples ' home may between them be confronting many occasions of loss and death ; the handling of these matters requires sensitivity too . |
| 13 | Would the other , these other enquiries you made , would the major part of them be asking other police officers or is there any other way of getting information ? |
| 14 | Had they been born 15 years earlier , Tumbleweed would probably wear loon pants and big belts and be called something like Satan 's Spaceship . |
| 15 | Neither had they been given extra hay the night before . |
| 16 | Virginia Bottomley , a health minister , said many of the 3,000 people sleeping rough in the city might have stayed at home had they been given enough attention earlier . |
| 17 | What they might have heard however , had they been passing ten minutes later , even above the noise of the traffic and the raging of the wind , was a roar of someone in pain , a great and agonizing cry . |
| 18 | Indeed , had they been defending British farmers , particularly , those producing lamb , they would have achieved only a load of jelly — and red at that . |
| 19 | Mr may I ask you also had been told by somebody that they been planning armed robberies together . |
| 20 | Now they are forming new floodplains about –8 m below their old floodplains . |
| 21 | And they are demanding massive insurance cover from Eastern Suburbs when Martin Offiah plays for them next summer . |
| 22 | They are mounted two models to a base , and both models get their own attack . |
| 23 | By adopting policies against sexual harassment they are opposing hitherto-accepted codes of normal masculinity and their effects in exercising power and control over women . |
| 24 | Birds can not be conserved by protection in Britain if they are facing greater problems elsewhere . |
| 25 | Eighty per cent of Birmingham 's 3,000 minicab drivers are Asian and they are facing shocking levels of violence . |
| 26 | They are facing formidable opposition in the shape of last year 's winner , Rosa Mota , who sees London as a warm-up for the Olympics , where she 'll be defending her title and looking to put the disappointment of the World Championships in Tokyo last year behind her . |
| 27 | As the owners are aging , they are facing considerable problems . |
| 28 | Er Stuart Argyle on I also say that they are removing one tree outside the former Horse and Groom public house as well . |
| 29 | ‘ If that is their purpose and they are achieving that purpose , why is the Government privatising them ? ’ he asked . |
| 30 | those employed in senior management may by the nature of their jobs be fully aware of what is required of them and fully capable of judging for themselves whether they are achieving that requirement . |