Example sentences of "they [be] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the range of benefits to which the elderly and those caring for them are entitled is still inadequate to meet every need , it is wider than some realise . |
| 2 | The people who suffer if they are broken are not the owners , the shareholders or the board of directors , but those who work in the industry — people who have given their lives to that industry , built up the companies ' assets and made them into going concerns attractive for privatisation . |
| 3 | Most analysts said IBM Corp is not done with its restructuring , and there will be more to come — ‘ I think basically the mainframe business and the problems they are facing are very fundamental and will likely worsen in 1993 , ’ Smith said — ‘ the mainframe business is the main source of cash flow and it will be very difficult to offset that by improvements elsewhere . ’ |
| 4 | Assuming it to be out there somewhere they have joined forces with the Utopians and Marxists and missed the fact that the spiritual galaxy for which they are searching is like the Milky Way . |
| 5 | ‘ We do need to talk to the tutors and point out that the patterns of study that they are providing are not meeting the demands of the market , ’ Mr Armitage stresses . |
| 6 | District councillors are under no illusion that the extra cash they are providing is enough to solve the problem entirely . |
| 7 | There are more occupational therapists , and the time that they are taking is also being reduced . |
| 8 | The list from which they are selected is held on a small computer on the second floor of the drab grey Cabinet Office building in Whitehall . |
| 9 | The message they are getting is that Italy is the real target . |
| 10 | The advantages that they are getting are admirable and important but reforms that only give these advantages to a select minority can not be called fair . |
| 11 | The concept they are promoting is that of ‘ electronic ink ’ — a magic ingredient that will enable scribbles written on one pen computer to be used by other systems , even those without pen-aware technology . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ They are destroying are livelihood . |
| 13 | Some foxes , mongooses and weasels are capable of this type of defence and doubtless give the hungry predators the sensation that perhaps , after all , the food object they are pursuing is not so tasty . |
| 14 | The matter of which they are made is crushed right out of existence … but it leaves behind it a gravitational field , as if it were still there but compressed into a very small volume of space . |
| 15 | Whether the length of time spent in making these inquiries and the mode in which they are made are reasonable or not may be nice questions . |
| 16 | In other words , although social scientists certainly want to make sure that the information that they are gathering is accurate , this is only a necessary — not a sufficient — goal . |
| 17 | Consequently , the statements , and the concepts figuring in them , will be as precise and informative as the theory in whose language they are framed is precise and informative . |
| 18 | The musical needs of parishes and congregations differ from place to place , and the way in which they are met is determined largely by the resources available . |
| 19 | ( In this chapter , we shall adopt the convention that all numbers that change when they are smoothed are shown in bold print . ) |
| 20 | The places where they are stored are secret . |
| 21 | The process involved is known as diapirism , and diapirs rise because the hot rock of which they are composed is less dense than the cooler surrounding country rock . |
| 22 | ‘ The first thing passengers do when they are served is have a look at what their neighbour has got — their piece of chicken has got to be the same size , ’ says Karen . |
| 23 | For these ‘ immigrants ’ to start demanding having a say in the way their pupils are taught and what they are taught is viewed with great disdain … |
| 24 | Few of the youngsters will have been to a big match ; what they are emulating is what they have seen on television in shop windows and heard on their transistors . |
| 25 | In one form or another these issues , which are really all variations of the same issue , are of very long standing , but the style in which they are presented is liable to change very rapidly . |
| 26 | In other words their comprehension is at fault , or put another way the text they are using is too difficult for them . |
| 27 | To say they are under-stocked is perhaps somewhat inaccurate . |
| 28 | In today 's Nature , Professor Stephen Mann and Dr Jon Didymus from Bath University , working with Dr Young and colleagues at the Natural History Museum , have found that in spite of their varied appearance , the chalk crystals of which they are built are organised in the same way at the atomic level . |
| 29 | Indeed , the balance between teaching and research obligations as they are felt is weighted too much towards research , for , in some respects , the research culture can have deleterious effects on the teaching process . |
| 30 | The conclusion that the effects of arousal will depend on the subject 's interpretation of the importance of the task at which they are engaged is extremely important in interpreting studies of arousal and memory which are discussed later in this chapter . |