Example sentences of "they [be] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is the point of only taking what you need and looking after your resources for the future , if they are simply going to be swiped by somebody else ? |
| 2 | Often ecosystems become less diverse if they are simply allowed to ‘ settle down ’ . |
| 3 | In desperation , in many cases , young females deliberately become pregnant because they know that once they are in that state they are immediately restored to the benefit system . |
| 4 | Farm workers also gain intrinsic satisfaction from working with living and growing plants and animals and they share a sense of achievement when they are finally brought to maturity , the sequential nature of production allowing workers to be involved in all of the stages through to completion . |
| 5 | It is important to note that even though back variants of /a/ are strongly emblematic of vernacular speech , they are nevertheless spreading to higher-status groups in the wider community . |
| 6 | Perhaps they are soon to go to Britain or the States to study or as tourists . |
| 7 | We must ensure that the security forces are the real defenders of human rights and freedom from fear and violence , and that they are clearly seen to be so . |
| 8 | While these elements have been ranked in order of comprehensibility , they are clearly interrelated to one another . |
| 9 | We shall also look at the Cinderellas of settlement studies — hamlets and farmsteads , which have received little attention but are of immense importance because they are widespread and because they are clearly related to both the origins and the decline of villages . |
| 10 | They are mostly limited to the accident and emergency department , the coronary care unit , and the intensive care unit ; results from general wards are depressingly poor . |
| 11 | They are even admitted to be absurd by Tertullian — ‘ Credo quia absurdum ’ — and believed in for that very reason ; but this is an argument which does not enable us to distinguish which absurd propositions we are to believe Freud thought . |
| 12 | The " mothers " , as they are generally referred to , are women who until a few years ago had never spoken in public , never organized a campaign . |
| 13 | They can be stated in a number of different ways , but they are generally accepted to be : |
| 14 | Such enzymes do exist — they are known as reverse transcriptases — but they are generally believed to be exclusive to RNA viruses , which need them to transcribe their RNA genes into DNA for replication inside cells . |
| 15 | Their advantages are : they are generally made to measure , so awkward sizes are n't a problem ; they need minimal maintenance ; and they usually have integral weatherstripping . |
| 16 | They are generally thought to be striking at Hipparchos not shown , an interesting but rather surprising concept ; one might rather see them as defending themselves against the bodyguard which cut them down . |
| 17 | We should not underestimate the power of official systems of classification of children , even when they are generally held to be inadequate by those that work with them . |
| 18 | Many of these straits are noted for strong tidal currents , but although such currents may assist in moving away the debris of erosion , they are generally held to be impotent as a cause of marked marine erosion , at least of those which outcrop in this locality . |
| 19 | Relatively few cost/benefit studies have yet been carried out except in such areas as crop prediction and ocean navigation ( where they are generally shown to be highly advantageous in saving someone else 's money ) . |
| 20 | All they are interested in — all they are generally permitted to be interested in — is whether they get a reasonable pension at the end of the day . |
| 21 | The human body is a reservoir of microorganisms as illustrated in Figure 6.5 and they are easily transferred to other things and people via the hands . |
| 22 | The clinical features of the two groups as well as the subgroups in group A — that is , those who had calculi at the time sclerosing cholangitis was diagnosed and those who developed calculi after sclerosing cholangitis was diagnosed , are shown in Table I. Because of the similarities between the two subgroups in group A , they are hereafter referred to as one group . |
| 23 | External UPSs ca n't do that because they are n't connected to the PC 's system bus . |
| 24 | Unless you can promote yourself as a bit-part player in some concocted yarn involving Madonna , outlandish sexual indiscretions , wilful substance abuse or , better still , all three , they are n't going to be interested . |
| 25 | Your father and I have talked to Lewis and he 's said they are n't going to actually rush into anything , but they just feel so … right together that it 's … just come up , you know ? |
| 26 | That they are n't going to be allowed to do that . |
| 27 | That 's why actions generally , although by no means always , do speak louder than words : because , paradoxically , they are n't meant to ‘ speak ’ at all , and a fortiori are n't meant to speak what 's false . |
| 28 | It means that they are just going to be even poorer than they are now . |
| 29 | They are just demonstrating to their wives and girlfriends what good Europeans they are . |
| 30 | Most English wines have a fine fruit structure and a racily crisp freshness , so they are well matched to lightly flavoured fish — especially fish such as trout — and to light poultry dishes . |