Example sentences of "they [verb] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are laws against discrimination but to get them respected is another matter . |
| 2 | One of the messages from the Bill may be that bringing in those schemes and making them work is one way in which the engineers can show that they have as much to contribute in cutting the number of casualties as those who deal with the behavioural side of driving and those who build the bypasses that take traffic away from towns and villages . |
| 3 | Well , you 'll all have the same so , I do n't know any of them get 's any ice cream . |
| 4 | But whereas , in the former , the lovers are effete , foppish and ultimately doomed , in They Wouldn't 's Gay Yardie routine , the characters Rupert and Denzel are ‘ two rough-up , ragamuffin characters ’ who exit the stage arm in arm and very much alive , leaving the audience with no option but to confront their own prejudices . |
| 5 | Such concessions as they made were mere delaying tactics . |
| 6 | The form of ‘ unofficial ’ war which they fought was more characteristic of brigandage and open robbery , but it would be wrong to assume that those who constituted the Companies were all , of necessity , men of criminal background or low degree . |
| 7 | However , phonetically , the point at which they converge is further back than that characteristic of older middle-class speakers . |
| 8 | Among the issues which they pursued were proposed NIHT rent increases , resettlement grants , poor soundproofing and finishing in their accommodation and the refusal of the NIHT to provide a communal television aerial for Rossville Flats which would enable the tenants to receive Radio Telefis Eireann ( the Irish television network ) . |
| 9 | What they want is everyday talk . |
| 10 | Maybe Brian but what they want is initial contact point for somebody . |
| 11 | The staggering fact that 41% of the original researchers have not published papers relating to their original research should lead funding authorities to question the extent to which the research programmes which they sponsored were worthwhile undertaking in the first place . |
| 12 | The fact that 41% of the original researchers have not published papers relating to their original research could lead funding authorities to question the extent to which the research programmes which they sponsored were worthwhile undertaking in the first place . |
| 13 | What they forget is that rationality is opposed to absurdity , not to mystery . |
| 14 | But the dig , which involved drilling three holes , was called off after all they found were eighteenth century foundations . |
| 15 | They bought heroin which they reported was top quality and thought to come from Holland . |
| 16 | Responding to what they say are inaccurate press stories — which we have not seen — Micro Focus Plc has issued a statement with Microsoft Corp 's concurrence , saying that their current agreement between will expire on September 30 , but that both want to continue their business relationship into the future and are exploring the terms for the new agreement ; as if to emphasise the point , Microsoft yesterday announced shipment of Microsoft Cobol professional development system version 5.0 for Windows , with support for the Visual Basic programming system for Windows and embedded structure query language ; it says the new release incorporates the latest version of the Micro Focus compiler , and creates executable files faster and smaller than previous releases ; it is $900 , now . |
| 17 | Conditions were better for fishing now than they 'd been all night . |
| 18 | They 'd been minor royalty in some petty , pre-Independence kingdom . |
| 19 | well they were having a biology lesson , she 'd been all about these , they 'd been this biology |
| 20 | The Americans were angered by what they believe is excessive protection for French farmers . |
| 21 | While this is not conceptually difficult many trainees are reluctant to give up labels that they believe are common sense shorthand . |
| 22 | But the management of Kelly 's have hit back at what they feel is unwarranted criticism . |
| 23 | Liberal pique over what they felt was inadequate consultation and personal rivalry between the leaders of the parties were seen by some as the most potent causes of the rift , but the official reason which the Liberals , the junior partners in the coalition , gave was their objection to the ending of tax deductions for car commuters and the raising of taxes on petrol and diesel fuel . |
| 24 | All they felt was another thump as the lorry bounced gently off the far side of the road and down the lane that ran towards the railway . |
| 25 | People walking across what they thought was firm snow would fall through into fast running streams that had n't even been there before . |
| 26 | We had to placate them by appearing in what they thought was acceptable guise . |
| 27 | Yeah , the got to actually change the starter motor erm I mean on the A D fifties and the two litre they I would sort of , its only a hundred and fifty cc , but the next biggest thing they did was stopping er , a sixteen hundred so quite a lot of those , but nine times out of ten all they did was another part , so |
| 28 | And the biggest female fibbers about what they tipple are high-flying career women who turn to drink to help cope with work pressures . |
| 29 | Such parents value obedience as a virtue and favour punitive , forceful measures to curb self-will at those points where the child 's actions or beliefs conflict with what they think is proper conduct . |
| 30 | Few historians today place much trust in the sagas ( which apparently included a lost work on Cnut written c.1200 ) as sources for the eleventh century , but the verses which they quote are another matter . |