Example sentences of "they be [verb] [is] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | District councillors are under no illusion that the extra cash they are providing is enough to solve the problem entirely . |
| 4 | There are more occupational therapists , and the time that they are taking is also being reduced . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The message they are getting is that Italy is the real target . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | 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 … |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In other words their comprehension is at fault , or put another way the text they are using is too difficult for them . |
| 19 | To say they are under-stocked is perhaps somewhat inaccurate . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Loss of earnings and career prospects can be a serious matter for someone who knows that she is going to have to support herself for many years after her parents have gone ; and unless the home in which they are living is owned by them , and left to her in their will , she is also going to have to provide accommodation for herself when they die . |
| 23 | But what is more important than anything else is that they should not be treated as packages and removed from one place to another and back again because the grown-ups are involved in a dispute and have overlooked that children have rights , and that children 's rights are to remain somewhere until after calm and sensible consideration and a decision by a court that the particular place in which they are living is changed by the decision of the court to them living somewhere else . |
| 24 | Drinkers have a right to know whether the beer they are drinking is a genuine barley malt product or whether it is stuffed full of such tasty ingredients as corn syrup , propylene glycol alginate , amyloglucosidase , papain enzymes and potassium metabisulphite . |
| 25 | Such craters are now known elsewhere in the Solar System as you have already seen in the case of Mars , and therefore the mechanism by which they are formed is of widespread relevance . |
| 26 | The reason they are detained is because we feel if we release them we wo n't see them again . |
| 27 | The Royal Family will not profit from the business , though one report said that the campaign by Anglo-American firm the Eclectic American Catalogue Company appears designed to give customers the impression that what they are buying is backed by the Queen . |
| 28 | Their actual meaning is unclear because the definition of the population on which they are based is ambiguous . |
| 29 | On the other hand , the nature of the ‘ common bond ’ on which they are based is such that members and potential members of a credit union can become aware of the cost advantages in the normal course of their day-to-day contact with friends , neighbours or workmates . |
| 30 | In addition , the way in which they are organized is determined , at least in a competitive environment , by the principle of economizing on transaction costs . |