Example sentences of "they be [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference between you and most other women is that not many of them are granted the opportunity to actually indulge their nostalgia , save mentally . |
| 2 | Amongst them are found the last adepts of controlled altered states , out-of-the-body experience , psycho-navigation , environmental wisdom and time-honoured alternative methods of giving birth , healing , living and dying . |
| 3 | Had they been given the time , they 'd 've talked their faces off . |
| 4 | Furthermore , many authorities , had they been given the option , would have chosen to spend more on services . |
| 5 | As a result the women suffer ; they are made the scapegoats of damaged Izzat . |
| 6 | Martin Braine found that if children between five and six years of age are shown a standard visual illusion — such as a stick in water appearing to be broken , by light refraction — they will distinguish correctly between ‘ looks ? ’ and ‘ really ? ’ questions , but that if they are asked the neutral question ‘ Is the stick straight or broken ? ’ they will say that it is broken . |
| 7 | If we designed a questionnaire to ask people what they did in their free time , how would we know whether the answers we received gave us a true picture of how they spend that time ; or a picture of what they will say to a researcher when they are asked the question ? |
| 8 | When they are withdrawn the patient may suffer fatigue , headache , depression , weakness , and aches and pains . |
| 9 | To illustrate the type of problems encountered and the extent to which they are overcome the process of forward planning of student numbers is chosen as a test case . |
| 10 | For example , if Newco issues deep discount securities under Sch 4 TA 1988 , no or little interest is paid to the lender , but when they are redeemed the discount element becomes payable ( representing , effectively , rolled-up interest ) . |
| 11 | They are nicknamed the ‘ Cow and Calf ’ by sailors and ‘ Jacob and Esau ’ by locals because of the stark contrast , one with trees and one without . |
| 12 | Our pupils are exposed to many different materials , tools and processes and from the beginning they are taught the importance of the design process . |
| 13 | In the ‘ Newtonian ’ picture , shapes to which the calculus can be applied have the property of smoothness : the more they are magnified the simpler they get ( in the limit , curves can be replaced by their tangents ) . |
| 14 | Only a little thought will show what a nonsense this is , for , as we have just seen , no two individuals manifest their illnesses in exactly the same way even if they are given the same disease label . |
| 15 | They are given the induction pack and are taken round the home and shown the layout . |
| 16 | The specialists are then much easier to satisfy — providing they are given the right kind of food , they are content to sit and stare out from their cages , much as they would sit and stare out at their wild landscapes . |
| 17 | If pupils are motivated to learn to use spoken Standard English because they wish to adopt a social role , they will learn it if they are given the appropriate educational experiences and opportunities . |
| 18 | Oriental rugs need room to breathe , and unless they are given the right amount of space they can either be swamped by the surrounding decor or become so overpowering that they detract from everything else in the room . |
| 19 | There can be little doubt that there are many people in this country who would welcome such a change , as is evidenced by the customers who flock to stores to shop on Sunday when they are given the opportunity to do so ; but it might not be so popular with small retailers who could find it more difficult to open their shops regularly on Sundays to remain competitive with their larger and more powerful rivals . |
| 20 | It is therefore vital that they are given the right sort of care , so they can grow up to be well developed and strong physically , mentally alert , contented and emotionally stable . |
| 21 | Large numbers of mentally handicapped people are willing and able to lead relatively independent lives if they are given the opportunities , support and encouragement they need . |
| 22 | But experience has shown that it is possible to create elite , high-calibre long-term support teams if they are given the right leadership and training , an attractive physical environment to work from , good pay and conditions of service and , crucially , a set of realistic objectives about what they are trying to achieve . |
| 23 | All services should address relatives ' needs seriously by giving information , ensuring they feel involved and above all by ensuring that they are given the support they need to carry on caring . |
| 24 | By allowing delegated authority to subordinates , management at middle and junior levels are ‘ groomed ’ for eventual senior management positions , because they are given the necessary experience of decision-making . |
| 25 | When Newham Members raise the problem with social security Ministers , they are given the official answer that it is caused by the number of Somali refugees . |
| 26 | They are given the opportunity to involve the local chief officer of police in their curriculum planning and they must make an explicit decision about the place of sex education in the curriculum . |
| 27 | They are given the status of goddesses by virtue of their being , in a Swedeoborgian sense , vessels of symbolic love and so they are mystified and removed from the realms of real , whole , sexual beings . |
| 28 | Realising these advantages assumes that DHAs do have bargaining leverage over providers , that they do have choices and that they are given the freedom to make them . |
| 29 | Sales representatives are employed on a low level of basic salary plus commission , and they are given the sales leads from the head office on a weekly basis . |
| 30 | If they are given the green light then the running costs will have to come from the police authority . |