Example sentences of "they [verb] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were protected from enemies by their isolation and the land they cultivated was boundlessly fertile . |
| 2 | The knowledge they gain is often fascinating in its own right , but economic and social historians believe that an understanding of past change is also vital in helping us to understand today 's society . |
| 3 | And it was good whisky they got was too new made you see . |
| 4 | Two of areas of difference they highlight are particularly relevant to the public sector — scope and responsibility . |
| 5 | I can only assume that manufacturers who do n't properly configure the machines they sell are either lazy or careless . |
| 6 | The funds they manipulated were substantially other people 's . |
| 7 | The first membranes they made were far too thin and would not survive transfer into air , let alone freeze-drying . |
| 8 | The support from those in the demonstration and those shouting messages of support as they passed was greatly appreciated . |
| 9 | By placing the paragraphs on the node-link-node triples , the traversal of the semantic net and the generation of cohesive linear documents is also facilitated , as paragraphs are invoked only when the two nodes which they connect are simultaneously considered . |
| 10 | Knowing what they shared was enough for now , and she was content for him to pick his moment , take his time and let Celeste down gently . |
| 11 | Watching people you hardly know getting progressively drunk in front of your eyes while you soberly and precisely monitor the way they change is unexpectedly disturbing . |
| 12 | But where they and the study immediately differed was where , as , group finance director at John Menzies , said , it ‘ set off on a diverging track ’ from what they perceive is already best practice albeit only among the major companies . |
| 13 | Californians have a reputation for latching on to fads , and it 's true — yet a lot of what they preach is eminently sensible . |
| 14 | However , the number they make is very model-dependent , so that agreement with observation is hardly a confirmation of the grand unified theories . |
| 15 | The general approach which they make is extremely varied , from being quite clandestine to being rather pushy. 1 think the more senior one becomes , the more serious any headhunting approach becomes . |
| 16 | They 've got this absolute obsession with not telling the truth , which is bizarre because some of the products they make are actually good . |
| 17 | Of all the hedges I 've seen they 've been about eighteen two foot , about that far apart |
| 18 | The man they sought was already there , standing with his back to them , gazing at the great sarcophagus of Frederick III , first of the Hapsburgs to be Holy Roman Emperor . |
| 19 | They passed two motor-cyclists who emitted no bleep , and two powerful motor-bikes overtook them , but the D/F they sought was still proceeding steadily ahead of them . |
| 20 | They rarely live in temperatures of less than 25C ( 75F ) and the banks on which they grow are mainly between three and five , and only occasionally more than five , fathoms deep . |
| 21 | As their expectations of her ability began to match her developmental level they stopped being so irritable and anxious with her . |
| 22 | No , what they want is perfectly expressed in the simple banner held up during the Leipzig demonstrations : ‘ Freiheit ! ! ! ’ |
| 23 | In practice agents do not , or even perhaps could not , have complete and consistent preferences , partly because what they want is often affected by what they believe , and they do not , or could not , have perfect information . |
| 24 | They boss is just gon na keep sending messages until one finally gets through . |
| 25 | So long as the traveller historians and geographers , such as Herodotus and Pliny the Elder , Chau Ju-Kwa and Ibn Batuta , Friar Odoric and Marco Polo , are writing as eye-witness observers , most of what they report is entirely factual and authentic . |
| 26 | If the lumps are tumours , these are rarely infectious , and the reason why they appear is poorly understood . |
| 27 | My main criticism of the proposals is that the reforms that they suggest are far too complacent and conservative . |
| 28 | There was little vocal participation by the people in the Mass , and such music as they used was generally in the context of other services or ‘ devotions ’ . |
| 29 | The proportion who had considered any type of credit other than the one they used was only 6 per cent of this sample . |
| 30 | The data which they provide are thus not strictly comparable . |