Example sentences of "they are [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we have a night sitting service , an elderly person may not have to go in hospital if they are temporarily gone off their legs as sometimes happens . |
| 2 | It is a mark of the success of the policy that although they are often regarded as real people , they are rarely treated as such . |
| 3 | While course outlines , statements of course objectives etc are commonly prepared by college libraries , they are rarely documented in university and polytechnic libraries . |
| 4 | Some , like the hardline godfather Chen Yun , are so infirm they are rarely seen in public . |
| 5 | While standards have become tighter for landfills and incinerators , they are rarely imposed on the plants at which recycled materials are sorted for reprocessing . |
| 6 | People who ‘ do n't mind ’ about anything are people unused to giving an opinion , probably because they are rarely asked for one . |
| 7 | It is equally true that they are rarely associated with earthquakes . |
| 8 | Despite their high amplitude , however , they are rarely associated with pain . |
| 9 | They are rarely found on inland waters , although , since it is established that some of our winter visitors migrate over the interior of the county , such records are likely from time to time . |
| 10 | Once a water has received a regular supply of HNV baits , and the carp have been hooked on special rigs , they are rarely caught on any other bait or method . |
| 11 | Modern technologies can not be successfully used if they are simply imposed on an unwilling and underskilled workforce . |
| 12 | They are simply made on the day from fresh organic vegetables . ’ |
| 13 | You will recall that erm according to Filmer erm individuals do not consent to join a civil society they are simply born into it . |
| 14 | They are simply corrupted by patriarchy , are n't they ? |
| 15 | Whilst these are perhaps the most complex analyses that need to be performed , they are not at present really interactive design programs ; they are simply used for the analysis of a specified configuration . |
| 16 | If it is true that they are simply used as substitutes , the law is making an economically illegitimate distinction . |
| 17 | The modules remain online until such time that they are requested to be offlined again , at which time they are simply deleted from online storage . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | Often ecosystems become less diverse if they are simply allowed to ‘ settle down ’ . |
| 20 | They are simply derived from the term for the rotational energy . |
| 21 | In reality , they are simply attracted by notes which evoke the sound of wings . |
| 22 | Often they are simply excluded from studies , on the grounds that ‘ race ’ variations will distort findings . |
| 23 | I believe profoundly in all these things , it goes without saying ; my difficulty lies in knowing how defensible they are in the form in which they are visibly institutionalized in the anglophone academy . |
| 24 | The goods delivered consist of everyday groceries , and they are busily collected by the villagers and thrust into bags . |
| 25 | There they are immediately employed by the ‘ youngster ’ in the formation of its new shell . |
| 26 | When changes occur , they are immediately fed into our system and taken fully into account when your payroll is processed . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | While such studies as these do bring out the peculiar status of the causatives make and have ( which , I would agree , do involve a closer bond between the causative event and the event caused ) , they are nevertheless based on abstract semantic categories which have been set up a priori in logico-truth-conditional terms — Wierzbicka ( 1988 : 237 ) aptly characterizes them as " ready-made labels " — and therefore lose sight of the fact that each individual language is a system where meaning is bonded to form in permanent and idiosyncratic fashion ( cf. the comments on Ransom 1986 in the Introduction ) . |
| 30 | They are nevertheless couched in the rhetoric of democracy : they invoke the people and the people 's will as what legitimates the regime , or the policy or the action — which may even be something as arbitrary as a coup d'etat . |