Example sentences of "they [verb] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Typically , the figurines which they made are 20 centimetres high and depict worshippers in attitudes of adoration , or reclining goats , or cattle . |
| 3 | Such concessions as they made were mere delaying tactics . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | However , phonetically , the point at which they converge is further back than that characteristic of older middle-class speakers . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | so the last thing they want is extra children to come in . |
| 8 | What they want is everyday talk . |
| 9 | Maybe Brian but what they want is initial contact point for somebody . |
| 10 | The size of the particles created by the fires and the heights to which they rose were key factors that determined the atmospheric residence times of the pollutants , the extent of spread of the plumes , and hence the degree of impact on weather and climate . |
| 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 | Moreover , we may point out that even if corresponding attributive and predicative adjectives ( occurring with the same noun ) could be relied on to share the same referential locus , that would be no justification for leaping to an assertion that the two elements are actually " the same " tout court , and even less for claiming that the structural positions they occupy are alternative forms of each other . |
| 14 | What they forget is that rationality is opposed to absurdity , not to mystery . |
| 15 | But the dig , which involved drilling three holes , was called off after all they found were eighteenth century foundations . |
| 16 | They bought heroin which they reported was top quality and thought to come from Holland . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The move follows their dissatisfaction with what they say are deteriorating services throughout the area . |
| 19 | Conditions were better for fishing now than they 'd been all night . |
| 20 | And Lucy called her in the morning , swept away all doubts with a rush of enthusiasm about the exhibition , and only when they 'd hung up did Jay realise that she had n't given her a date , a time ; that she — they ? — were just where they 'd been five months before . |
| 21 | They 'd been minor royalty in some petty , pre-Independence kingdom . |
| 22 | well they were having a biology lesson , she 'd been all about these , they 'd been this biology |
| 23 | And then much of this leeway was made up and the capacity being there er , well the hours of work were getting tackled then , they 'd been longer hours and er I think as a a boy coming out of apprenticeship , er the forty seven hour week had come into being . |
| 24 | Not that you 'd know they 'd been most days . |
| 25 | And poems in a novel simply did n't work ; they 'd been crap poems anyway . |
| 26 | So land ownership and management are very relevant to our theme of landscape study and historical reconstruction : the estates belonging to particular individuals or corporate bodies , and the boundaries within which they lie are important factors to be elucidated for any area . |
| 27 | They also pointed to what they claimed were morale-boosting concessions by the Soviet leadership to the armed forces , notably the promotion of Defence Minister Dmitry Yazov to the rank of Marshal on April 28 , and the holding of a big military parade in Red Square on May 9 to mark the 45th anniversary of the end of Second World War hostilities in Europe . |
| 28 | The auction houses quite wisely retreated , leaving specialist dealers bemoaning what they alleged were short-sighted policies . |
| 29 | All they get is sad sheep for fans … who just follow the crowd — try and be uncontroversial . |
| 30 | Or might they have been Tory voters fooled by Labour 's billboard poster of John Major wearing an SNP rosette ? |