Example sentences of "they be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ England 's batting , fielding and — apart from Emburey and Edmonds — their bowling proclaimed the lack of practice and resolve on a slow pitch which , had they been in the right frame of mind , would have given them an even chance of levelling the series , ’ asserted Wisden . |
| 2 | How long had they been in Orkney ? |
| 3 | How long have they been in business ? |
| 4 | In America , with the Harveys , it somehow had not mattered ; nor had they been in the least concerned about how he had been raised , judging him for what he was now . |
| 5 | The USSR , as before , remained ready to further its own interests wherever it could , and those interests were not always in agreement with those of Western governments — nor had they been in tsarist times . |
| 6 | These arrangements would not have differed had they been in the Fens , or watching Scandinavia 's hot springs : Johnson went to inspect the landscape he described : Boswell took his landscape , the lumpy Dr Johnson , with him . |
| 7 | Curtseying was not a country custom , and besides , even had they been in town , she was n't sure she should to one of her brother 's friends , whom she 'd known since he was a boy . |
| 8 | Had they been in vogue in 1951 , the words perestroika and glasnost might have been used by observers . |
| 9 | prior to the Daily Telegraph article in January nineteen eighty eight , had or or had they been in the habit of spending large amounts of money on national publicity ? |
| 10 | Have they been in the fridge ? |
| 11 | Well they been in there since two o'clock . |
| 12 | Have they been in there ? |
| 13 | How long have they been in here for Paul ? |
| 14 | How long does you happen to have in his family , how long have they been in the collection ? |
| 15 | The critic is also likely to spot the gaps in a group show , when the best works are not being shown , say perhaps because they are in private collections . |
| 16 | Which is rather like saying that slum-dwellers would rather live in the slums than anywhere else — there they are in the slums , are n't they ? |
| 17 | What do you feel about actors keeping themselves in step with training once they are in the profession ? |
| 18 | Smoke alarms need very little maintenance , but they do need to be tested regularly to make sure they are in good working order . |
| 19 | Above all , show them that you care and will give them all the support and help you can — even if they are in trouble with the law |
| 20 | Jung ( 1964 ) has described these hidden facets as being creatively generative , but possessed of danger in any confrontation and difficult if not impossible to harness ; for they are in effect alternative domains of power . |
| 21 | They are in the heat of battle , in the ‘ arena ’ , competing for office , participating in feuds , factions and coalitions . |
| 22 | Weight categories ensure that individuals are more closely matched than they are in team events . |
| 23 | They are in English , ’ Donald said contemptuously . |
| 24 | Now this Act will bind six thousand of us — I am not speaking in my own interest , I am well past the age — but this Act will empty the glens of the young active men — and how can they marry if they are in barracks and camps in England , or in France if you send them there — you say you will not … |
| 25 | The Jews are in The Church as they are in the snow … |
| 26 | Are they to be sharply accented upwards with a hold on the downwards accent as they are in Ashton 's version of the Act III pas de quatre in Swan Lake ? |
| 27 | John admits they are in a better position than most tenants , for they have their own house to move in to and are not dependent on the pub 's accommodation . |
| 28 | As the game progresses , owners should start to win the chase or the tug-of-war so , by the end of each game scenario — before Fido has lost interest — they are in possession of the toy , playing with it and not allowing Fido to have it . |
| 29 | I believe profoundly in all these things , it goes without saying ; my difficulty lies in knowing how defensible they are in the form in which they are visibly institutionalized in the anglophone academy . |
| 30 | Whether they know it or not , they are in fact endorsing Henry Newbolt against Pound ! |