Example sentences of "they [be] [adv] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ finished ’ sentences with which they are implicitly contrasted are an artefact of writing . |
| 2 | He 's just he 's just got one a long way out though right looks as though we 've either just missed one and they Oh no they are just coming are n't they ? just missed one there |
| 3 | Under the Child Minders Regulations Act of 1948 a person caring for reward for one or more children under five years of age to whom they are not related is required to be registered with the local authority . |
| 4 | The main reason they are not overcome is lack of time to discover the mistake and put it right . |
| 5 | I , I do n't often agree with Jim about anything , but I really do agree with him about this , that there has to be some clear guidelines , I think , as to how these are fixed , they are not going be have the potential of being very unfair to people because people operate in different ways in different areas and I would suggest that it would be a good idea if this community were to ask for erm guidelines to be drafted for this committee to agree so that there is a more even fair , laid down procedure for dealing with the cases coming before the panel . |
| 6 | ‘ But the question they are not answering is what are we going to do about the NHS . |
| 7 | What they are now doing is compromising , in this half-baked manner , by raising the ante to 70 . |
| 8 | Accordingly , women may abandon them and try to fit into institutional patterns which make no sense to them but which they are constantly assured are superior . |
| 9 | ‘ They should judge him purely on his ability as a player and what they are actually saying is that their man-management techniques are n't up to scratch . |
| 10 | What they are actually selling is drug tests for employees . |
| 11 | An important factor in the mode of landscape development on granite batholiths once they are sub-aerially exposed is the joint structure that they form . |
| 12 | Perhaps all they are really reflecting is their public 's depressing penchant for horror-show kitsch and spectacularly well-told lies . |
| 13 | It would appear that when ARA representatives speak of ‘ black leadership of the anti-racist struggle ’ , what they are really doing is asserting their right , as self-appointed ‘ leaders ’ , to dictate to ordinary black and white anti-racists . |
| 14 | But what they 're not doing is spending loads of money on hospitals and houses and schools and raising the general living standards , they 're spending it all on heavy industry and armaments . |
| 15 | They 're not bothered are they ? |
| 16 | They 're not working , they 're not working are they ? |
| 17 | They 're probably insured are n't they ? |
| 18 | But , but they 're saying that , ooh apart from I think the what they 're really saying is that it 's better to wait till in |
| 19 | And they may not be able to cope with that , which is why I am always a little bit anxious if marriages break up very quickly , because it might indicate that what they 're really doing is just going into that second phase . |
| 20 | The BBC usually attempt to hide the fact that what they 're about to show is a repeat by introducing it with the words : ‘ Another chance to see … |
| 21 | and they 're , they 're they 're still involved are n't they ? |
| 22 | What they 're actually doing is they 're affirming to themselves they 're verbalising the performance improvement or the performance they 're going to give . |
| 23 | So what what they 're actually saying is that here is a formal training that will make sure that everybody at the , who goes on this course , comes away with a measure of having achieved those skills because th the course itself is formed of two parts . |
| 24 | To avoid considering these consequences on the grounds that they were not intended is not only to be blind to much human suffering , but also to accept the relative positions of intention compared with indifference on a common-sense hierarchy of immorality . |
| 25 | Indeed whereas in Morgan v. Palmer the defendant had no statutory authority to demand a fee and the plaintiff had no option but to pay it in order to obtain the licence , in this case the corporation were fully entitled to levy a toll on the landing of limestone which they were not informed was to be burnt . |
| 26 | but they , I mean , oh they were n't dubbed were they ? |
| 27 | There were deep gouges in his left forearm , and the only reason they were n't bleeding was that the flesh was also burnt . |
| 28 | When Samuelson and Solow wrote of trading off inflation against unemployment , what they were implicitly postulating was a policy makers ' social welfare function , , from which could be derived social indifference curves . |
| 29 | They were still interested in patterns rather than processes , although the patterns they were now discussing were of a kind that Darwin would be able to explain . |
| 30 | The flag which they were rapidly approaching was closed . |