Example sentences of "they be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 've they been doing to you ? |
| 2 | ‘ But have n't they been closed to visitors ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Lightweight dinghies should n't be used unless they are tethered to the shore , ’ said Peter Race . |
| 4 | When people write nice things about my food it always sounds like they are referring to someone else … ’ . |
| 5 | The naturalists do not admit that they are referring to rules of genre ; their writings must be true , not just likely . |
| 6 | Both speakers and writers find this useful when they are referring to two things , one animate , one inanimate . |
| 7 | Clearly without a standardized definition research findings can be misleading and invariably confusing because they are referring to very different phenomena . |
| 8 | Thus , when many people talk ( or think ) about CAD , they are referring to the secondary design activity wherein the seed of the idea is fully investigated and developed . |
| 9 | They are referring to rabies , which in Portuguese is called raiva — literally rage , fury , madness . |
| 10 | This R A F Wittering job that they are referring to S S W F C |
| 11 | They are assigned to a team and introduced ( if that 's the word ) to their team leader . |
| 12 | Another group went to talk to the ‘ Educated Youth ’ ( i.e. young people who after leaving school in the city go to work in the commune and learn from the peasants ) — after 2 or more years in the country , a few of them may get the chance for further training or education before they are assigned to their jobs ( there is no such thing as applying for a job here ) . |
| 13 | Rather , organizational goals are what they are perceived to be by officials who have been socialized into the organizational ‘ way of life ’ and who strive in a highly co-ordinate fashion to bring about collectively their realization . |
| 14 | However we make sure that they are manufactured to the latest BSI standards using only the best quality materials . |
| 15 | ‘ They are geared to the narrow dimensions of their own sports . |
| 16 | They are aroused to activity by others , by friendship , by relating . |
| 17 | Behind Sweeney Agonistes lies Rivers , but Eliot 's interpretation and use of Rivers owes much to the Stevensonian world of his childhood reading , where white men seek paradise with island wives arrayed in ‘ the scarlet flowers of the hibiscus ’ , only to find too often that they are condemned to a life of soul-destroying boredom where ‘ Night on the Beach ’ is followed monotonously by ‘ Morning on the Beach ’ . |
| 18 | They are condemned to a life of misery in cramped breeding colonies . |
| 19 | The net result is that once the protons have overcome the initial fusion hurdle they are converted to 4 He , radiating energy in the process . |
| 20 | Some people ( who usually turn out to do well in phonetic training ) find that in speaking to someone with a different accent their pronunciation gets progressively more like that of the person they are speaking to , like a chameleon adapting its colour to its environment . |
| 21 | Moreton councillor Ken Hemsley said : ‘ I am just concerned that people answering 999 calls may not understand a local dialect and they may be talking about a place which the person they are speaking to will never have heard of . |
| 22 | Price Waterhouse is testing its ‘ START ’ scheme , which should reduce the number of graduates but increase the standard they are trained to . |
| 23 | I have to say though that it 's usually very embarrassing to see a group of professional dancers dancing in a club — because they are trained to be self-conscious , they ca n't let go of themselves . |
| 24 | Rover and other car manufacturers are now so successful that they are exporting to Japan and elsewhere . |
| 25 | What a lot of stupid people they are to listen to a preacher anyway ! |
| 26 | Hudson points to the fact that , not only are these terms applied by pupils to the arts and sciences , but also they are recognized to a large degree by those , like himself , working within psychology . |
| 27 | Covering countryside such as the Chilterns and the South Downs , they are intended to be areas of special planning control with strong accent on the visual and environmental effects of any development . |
| 28 | Both brushes and foam can also take on a partial biofiltering role , but if they are intended to be a mechanical filter , they should be cleaned before they clog . |
| 29 | In all these cases the court has been concerned to ensure that these fundamental requirements are met in the way in which , particularly in the case of the county courts , they are intended to be and should be met . |
| 30 | They are intended to be used to consolidate or to revise language which has already been presented in other ways . |