Example sentences of "they be [vb pp] are " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ( In this chapter , we shall adopt the convention that all numbers that change when they are smoothed are shown in bold print . ) |
| 4 | The places where they are stored are secret . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | However , it is worth emphasising that the stages and the measures on which they are based are derived from a grammatical description and that , in the case of children with language difficulties , it can not be assumed that structurally based measures are predictive of functional skills ( Blank et al . |
| 7 | Forecasts from econometric models will be inaccurate if the data on which they are based are wrong . |
| 8 | It is now known that the majority of standard statistical procedures used in the construction and evaluation of quantitative economic ( and other ) models , are sensitive to whether or not the data series to which they are applied are stable or unstable . |
| 9 | It is clear that the main prisons in which they are held are no longer overcrowded and that if they choose to do so , these prisoners can participate in the full range of activities . |
| 10 | They tend to see with their ears and accept things that they are told are acceptable , ’ he says . |
| 11 | Those that fail subsequent tests are rejected , while those that survive all the tests to which they are subjected are tentatively retained . |
| 12 | It is perfectly conceivable that we can make some general statements about the conditions that influence our self-indulgence or self-restraint in relation to rules laid down and enforced by the state , particularly when the nature of those rules and the way they are enforced are included for consideration . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's why , ’ says Howard , ‘ we must make sure that the terms they are offered are self-evidently unacceptable … |
| 14 | Oh they 're done are they ? |
| 15 | but they 're coated are n't they ? |
| 16 | Well if they 've gone , they 're gone are n't they ? |
| 17 | Railway police they 're called are n't they ? |
| 18 | climbing the white horses takes anything from three to five hours … routes up cliffs or pitches as they 're called are well mapped out in the mountain guides … and our team have made made it to the top in good time … |
| 19 | But I know that copy VAT certs , the VAT certs , VAT payment return , returns that 's what they 're called are n't they , are required . |
| 20 | Windsfield straight into New Invention and every Wednesday night , first it was the cows that would come and then the sheep and they 'd got to walk to the abattoir at Bloxwich , and erm sometimes the cows were so heavy with milk that er a lot of people in New Invention had free milk and then if the , if the sheep would be here there and everywhere you know and then with mother living where there was an entry dividing four houses er and a well straight at the top , and a. a big old-fashioned er tap for the cold water , there were n't any taps laid in kitchen in er what are the outhouses it was a communal tap erm sometimes the sheep would get out of hand and they 'd run up the entry hall and all round mother 's yard and then the cows would go around , but er it , it to me I felt sorry about it , because especially in the summer er erm the poor things were so hot and to walk all those miles , now they 're carried are n't they and they used to every Wednesday every Wednesday of the year the drivers would er the men must have been absolutely tired out , well although they 'd be used to it would n't they , but it was miles to walk from Wolverhampton the cattle market to Blox straight to Bloxwich and er that was another event that erm it , we , it , we used to have . |
| 21 | Examples of the transcribed tape for two of the subjects and the way in which they were scored are given in Appendix 1.3 . |
| 22 | The lorries drive off across Europe and with the amount of traffic there is the chances of them being caught are pretty minimal . |