Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] they be [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them are near to tears . |
| 2 | It is not known exactly where the birds end up , although some of them are likely to be eaten as game by African farmers . |
| 3 | To say that ‘ if all you have in life is bad choices , crack may not be the most unpleasant of them is irresponsible to an astonishing degree ’ . |
| 4 | Much of them are unreclaimed to this day , as in Dorset , Hampshire and Surrey . |
| 5 | ‘ All of them are vulnerable to coastal erosion and are being nibbled away by the sea . |
| 6 | The excitement in all of them was close to unbearable . |
| 7 | Despite the entitlements spelled out in the supplementary benefit regulations , many of them are subject to discretion . |
| 8 | This , coupled with the fact that they are also relatively low paid , means that many of them are unattractive to many of the unemployed . |
| 9 | If we return to the example of our widget-making factory after the introduction of the new production process , with half its workforce put on to the labour market ( or , putting it more bluntly , sacked ) , then many of them are likely to be eligible for unemployment benefit . |
| 10 | At the same time many among them are sympathetic to the Greens , whom their second vote gives them the opportunity to support . |
| 11 | More and more of them were appealing to the tribunals and to their MPS . |
| 12 | Remarkable that out of thirty people elected last May , fifteen of them are new to this Council , a staggering seventeen percent of the Council if you do it statistically . |
| 13 | ‘ One of them is married to our present king , ’ Huy said quietly . |
| 14 | The most progressive , self-sacrificing and heroic among them were receptive to the advanced ideas drawn from the West or propagated by Herzen and other leading democrats . |
| 15 | Not to imitate it , of course , but to gauge whether any of them are likely to be interested in the kind of work you write . |
| 16 | It is possible to adjust the data for the high proportion of part-time workers , by assuming that two of them are equivalent to one full-time worker . |
| 17 | The eye she opened travelled across an expanse of hairy chest , shocking her into awareness of who she lay on and that , by the feel of it , both of them were next to naked . |
| 18 | It happened that , for whatever reason , the charge was signed only by the first appellant , whereas both of them were entitled to the freehold . |
| 19 | If there are , for example , 11,000 accident repairers in the UK , most of them are likely to be small ; one-man operations or not much bigger . |
| 20 | All of them owed their existence to the efforts and generosity of private citizens and clergy ; most of them were similar to Joseph Watson 's asylum . |
| 21 | Most of them were used to paying regular visits to the friendly neighbourhood pawnbroker , but on the objects they brought to him they could not expect to raise any great sums . |