Example sentences of "they [vb base] [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 | However , phonetically , the point at which they converge is further back than that characteristic of older middle-class speakers . |
| 3 | so the last thing they want is extra children to come in . |
| 4 | What they want is everyday talk . |
| 5 | Maybe Brian but what they want is initial contact point for somebody . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | What they forget is that rationality is opposed to absurdity , not to mystery . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The move follows their dissatisfaction with what they say are deteriorating services throughout the area . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | All they get is sad sheep for fans … who just follow the crowd — try and be uncontroversial . |
| 12 | The Americans were angered by what they believe is excessive protection for French farmers . |
| 13 | While this is not conceptually difficult many trainees are reluctant to give up labels that they believe are common sense shorthand . |
| 14 | FOUR ex-servicemen have been booted out of a British Legion social club after going to war over what they believe are missing funds of up to £250,000 . |
| 15 | But the management of Kelly 's have hit back at what they feel is unwarranted criticism . |
| 16 | The tests they use are large-sample tests , and the distributions of the test statistics they use ( such as the likelihood ratio ) are not known exactly for small samples . |
| 17 | A GROUP of so-called ‘ new age ’ travellers have vowed to stay in the Highlands , in spite of what they claim is continual police harassment . |
| 18 | Environmentalists criticized what they claim are insufficient fines levied on polluters , most of which fell far short of the maximum permitted £20,000 . |
| 19 | It is they who have appointed a new caretaker president and a Government which they claim are interim measures . |
| 20 | And the biggest female fibbers about what they tipple are high-flying career women who turn to drink to help cope with work pressures . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Oh oh cos I mean they use today they have n't got these what they call are common users on the railway now . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The authors argue that ‘ attempts to evaluate effectiveness have shown little or no benefit , ’ although among the references they quote are three studies that did not entail counselling in the accepted sense of the term at all , two of which produced distinctly positive results . |
| 25 | We opened our Amsterdam , our new exhibition in Amsterdam in June and er , up to now audiences have flocked there many weeks they 've been thirty percent ahead of er ahead of budget . |
| 26 | They 've been bloody computer games in work , the chuffs . |
| 27 | Make out that they 've been right bastards to . |
| 28 | Erm , parent involvement , there is no mention in this report about parent involvement , and I think this is absolutely essential that the , it 's often the families who are poor parenting , because they 've been poor parent people , and you have succession , and we 've gone somewhere along the line , we 've got to go down that road . |
| 29 | Because they 've been good boys we 've helped them extend their landholdings and they lease it back to their own peasants at exorbitant rates — that 's why their own people call them pirates . " |
| 30 | Aunt Elena was Mother 's room-mate at school in Switzerland and they 've been best friends ever since . |