Example sentences of "they [det] [vb base] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will it not be found that the political activity of societies consists ordinarily , perhaps invariably , in filling sieves and making sand ropes — sieves which those who fill them half know to be sieves , sand which those who weave it into ropes suspect to be sand after all ? |
| 2 | Choices of language , decisions regarding objectives , content , the priority accorded to them and the criteria for determining them all have to be made , renewed and periodically revised . |
| 3 | Even where parents no longer live together they each continue to be responsible for their children and will need to decide who the children should live with for most of the time and how often the other parent should see the children . |
| 4 | Neither ‘ poverty ’ or ‘ environment ’ is a discrete category : they each have to be disaggregated . |
| 5 | I did n't get any say in the matter of how big or which brand it was , but the barmaid smiled sweetly and said ‘ Merci ’ when I paid her , because they all pretend to be French even if they are n't . |
| 6 | Yeah , they all tend to be environmentally friendly , it 's quite sick . |
| 7 | Although all ICI 's board members have endorsed the reorganisation ( which they all claim to be a radical one ) , it seems that both Mr Hampel and Mr Hutchison initially favoured a different course for ICI . |
| 8 | Signs are to be seen everywhere and they all need to be decoded . |
| 9 | Will be passed on , but in this instance they all need to be shown how to work it , yes , mhm , so that concerned me a little bit , apparently because they were holding the mike right up to their mouth and it was distorting terribly what 's going on up there |
| 10 | Perhaps , but not if they do not know about you , if they have no money , or if they all happen to be cat lovers ! |
| 11 | ‘ They wo n't do it — they all want to be air hostesses these days . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I think a lot of supporters look for that because they all want to be leaders themselves — they want to be the boss , they do n't want to be the tea-boy . ’ |
| 13 | Same as them posh blokes what come here — they all want to be caned . |
| 14 | They all want to be so he went off to be a computer scientist and either he was too interested in er what he describes as cult television which you think |
| 15 | The mosquitoes do n't seem to like the rain either , they all seem to be at the back of the trench . |
| 16 | They all seem to be doing it . |
| 17 | New York is full of heart-stopping girls with potent colouring , vanilla teeth , and these big tits they all seem to be issued with as a matter of course . |
| 18 | ‘ They own 8 million bicycles — and they all seem to be on the road at once , every day ! ’ |
| 19 | Congress , if I asked the question , is there a shop steward in the house , I would 've been confident to say yes , but they all seem to be leaving . |
| 20 | Indeed , it is reassuring to note that although these studies involve different problems within the verb , they all seem to be converging in so far as the view of the relation between event time and universe time ( time containing the event ) is concerned . |
| 21 | ‘ But they all seem to be able to finish off a try when they get the chance . |
| 22 | In western movies they all seem to be chewing tobacco or smoking brown cheroots but a cigar sits well in Elliot 's lips . |
| 23 | Yeah well they all seem to be bloody happy though do n't they ? |
| 24 | They all seem to be in one exhibit , that is obviously the favourite . |
| 25 | Sociologists can not have it both ways : either Freud has to be examined alongside the founders of sociology , or they all have to be dismissed as unscientific thinkers . |
| 26 | So they all have to be quite adaptable |
| 27 | With the exception of R. Tank Limited , they all appear to be looking towards a low number . |
| 28 | The members of the new lower class , of those who are not chosen for the meritocracy , not only are at the bottom but are there because they both deserve to be and know it . |
| 29 | ‘ They both tend to be very much one-man dogs . ’ |
| 30 | Essentially , in an explanation of a case of soil erosion , there are two sets of specificity to be tackled - that of the physical system and that of the social/economic system , and they both have to be brought together and analytically integrated . |