Example sentences of "they [verb] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who do not believe in delegation to committees argue that each of them has been elected by the public to watch their interests and therefore they should each have a voice in the decisions of every committee . |
| 2 | The first pre-retirement courses were held in the United States in 1949 , but it is only in the last ten to fifteen years that the need for them has been recognised in the United Kingdom . |
| 3 | However , none of them has been found in an archaeological context and they have aroused considerable suspicion : they could be relatively modern copies loosely based on Italic originals ; they could be genuine prehistoric imports ; or they could be perfectly genuine figures brought to Britain relatively recently as curios and since discarded or lost . |
| 4 | Each of them has been transformed into a breathtaking beauty ! |
| 5 | Find out if any of them has been linked to Hendrique over the past few months . |
| 6 | Ordered , That , at the sitting on Tuesday 4th February , the Motions in the name of Mr Francis Maude relating to Supplementary Estimates 1991-92 and Estimates 1992-93 ( Vote on Account ) may be proceeded with , though opposed , until half-past Eleven o'clock or for one and a half hours after the first of them has been entered upon , whichever is the later , at which time Mr. Speaker shall put the Questions necessary to dispose of them . |
| 7 | Ordered , That , at the sitting on Wednesday 5th February , notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 14 ( Exempted business ) , the Motions in the name of Mr. Secretary Hunt relating to Local Government Finance ( Wales ) may be proceeded with , though opposed , until half-past Eleven o'clock or the end of a period of one and a half hours after the first of them has been entered upon , whichever is the later , at which time Mr. Speaker shall put the Question necessary to dispose of them ; and those Questions may be decided after the expiry of the time for opposed business . |
| 8 | Shown as a single work of art at the Tate Gallery and three other European museums in 1962–63 , those six canvases were subsequently divided and sold separately , and none of them has been included in any recent exhibition of Bacon 's art . |
| 9 | The second edition of this guide to medicines for older people and those who help care for them has been published by Age Concern England . |
| 10 | Efforts to help them have been hampered by a crippling shortage of transport and medicine . |
| 11 | On Aug. 17 a gunman killed two off-duty civil guards in the Basque town of Oyarzun , bringing to 622 the total of apparent ETA victims in 1992 , 18 of them having been killed in the period January to March . |
| 12 | There was a minimum of 22 active groups in the County at the end of our fieldwork , most of them having been established during the lifetime of the CMHTs . |
| 13 | ‘ Right-offs should really be totally destroyed by insurance companies , but a lot of them end being bought for repair . ’ |
| 14 | Some of the characters they met are portrayed by Minton in the book . |
| 15 | Yes , there have been some very vigorous objections made by local residents , and that is particularly why the application that preceded this one was refused planning permission because er the objections they made were considered to be well founded by the Planning Committee and supported many of their views . |
| 16 | The issue they raise is charged with the heaviest moral and political overtones : did de Gaulle at any point give the go-ahead for Operation Resurrection ? |
| 17 | I 'm a fool , she thought tearfully , knowing the very last vestiges of the shaky companionship they shared were gone for good . |
| 18 | The most startling illustration of how things can stay the same while they change is found in one of Stein-am-Rhein 's many excellent restaurants . |
| 19 | And the adaptations they make are made on several different levels erm they might become more alike in their language , in their pronunciation , their rate of speech , their pause or utterance length and their vocal intensities . ? |
| 20 | The decisions that they make are gon na be based on comers commercial considerations , not health , so I 'm sure the doctors wo n't be wo n't be bothered with decisions , Councillor because the accountants will be making them for them . |
| 21 | Well you see they 've been brainwashed to that sort of music so they 're bound to , bound to like it . |
| 22 | The Beach-heads hear they 've been cursed by a Swells SOTW |
| 23 | This process whereby financial intermediaries lend for longer periods of time than they borrow is known as maturity transformation . |
| 24 | The institutions and arrangements they built were driven by an idea of multilateralism . |
| 25 | Furthermore , almost all of the residential care they supply is provided under contract to local authority social services departments . |
| 26 | An important aspect of Piaget 's approach is his claim that , since children the world over are very similar physiologically and neurologically , and since the world they explore is regulated by the same laws of nature , progress , in terms of their ability to make sense of the world , will be broadly consistent across all children . |
| 27 | The organisers hope their movement , which they say is supported by many Muslim organisations , will persuade the Government to order an inquiry into the Rushdie affair . |
| 28 | mm , the thing is though , that was n't a Court hearing yesterday and whatever they say is gon na incriminate them so if they want to ask them questions they 've got ta take them to Court have n't they ? |
| 29 | They oil was discovered in Kuwait . |
| 30 | Any commission they receive is added to the money being put in the scheme or plan so benefiting the client . |