Example sentences of "[conj] they be [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they are by present standards very much ‘ old hat ’ , it is surprising when you look back to realise how little change there has been in the fundamental principles of some systems . |
| 2 | And was Simone de Beauvoir ( 1972 ) justified in believing that , because women ‘ live dispersed among the males , attached through residence , housework , economic condition , and social standing to certain men — fathers or husbands — more firmly than they are to other women ’ , they can have no common identity or history ? |
| 3 | B , b , This classification is one of several suggesting that one or other of the fossil groups are more closely related to jawed vertebrates than they are to other agnathans . |
| 4 | This is one field of higher education where in some cases the fees from the overseas student are no higher than they are for British nationals . |
| 5 | At low river flows the effects of pollution are greater than they are at high flows , and , if there is any contamination that is likely to affect textile processing , this will show up more in samples taken at such times . |
| 6 | Why are people less prepared to vote in local government elections than they are in general elections ? |
| 7 | Neglect or minimization of a task is at best only a short-term expedient , and the housewife 's awareness of this fact causes time pressures to be felt possibly more acutely than they are in other kinds of work . |
| 8 | But I mean d do you think the people are more unfriendly around here than they are in other parts of the town ? |
| 9 | We need to tighten the time schedules for the writing of reports , and ensure that the workloads are more evenly spread than they are in some cases at the moment . |
| 10 | With a number of solids the interatomic forces are stronger and stiffer than they are in common liquids and so the surface energies are higher , often ten or twenty times the values for ordinary liquids . |
| 11 | The traveller who reaches this point is rewarded by an insight into why our powers of measurement in quantum mechanics are more restricted than they are in classical mechanics ; why we can not , for instance , measure both the position of an electron and its momentum . |
| 12 | The opportunities offered by Post Ordination Training and in-service clergy training ( CME ) should be used much more than they are by most dioceses , perhaps in collaboration with music colleges or diocesan music advisers . |
| 13 | It seems probable that elderly people as a whole have more secure incomes and are less marginalized as consumers today than they were at earlier times in this century . |
| 14 | Voters were now said to be more worried about ‘ poor public services ’ than they were about high taxes . |
| 15 | It is the case that typical households in the later part of the twentieth century are much less likely than they were in earlier times to contain anyone other than the conjugal family . |
| 16 | Those arrangements or agreements with , with us are within the law and that they 're between consenting adults , I do n't know what else they 're gon na think of banning . |
| 17 | When the snake 's mouth is shut they lie flat , but when the jaws are opened wide to strike , the two upper teeth that supply the venom are pivoted down through about go degrees , so that they are at right angles to the top of the head . |
| 18 | Lie flat , bend the knees then straighten the legs upwards so that they are at right angles to your body . |
| 19 | Yet the more we look at our surroundings , the more we find that they are in many ways far above the average . |
| 20 | Centuries ago they created torsion powered and counter-weighted devices which are their equivalent of cannons , perfecting them to such a degree that they are in many ways superior to crude gunpowder weapons . |
| 21 | Mrs Whitehouse is concerned not only that television companies are using their influence to promote political causes but , as was suggested above , that they are in many ways responsible for the ‘ moral decline ’ which she has identified . |
| 22 | If we compare two twelfth-century texts , such as the Peterborough continuation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ( East Midland ) and Layamon 's Brut ( South-west Midland ) , we could not be blamed for believing that they are in different languages . |
| 23 | The only distinguishing feature of two different attributes is that they are in different positions , or something like that , which has no bearing on their possible values . |
| 24 | Sarvodaya and Truth are so interrelated in Gandhi 's thought that they are like two sides of a coin . |
| 25 | Julian , although knowing through putting them on his arms that they were of different lengths , said they were ‘ the same ’ . |
| 26 | Then her mother would graciously conduct half an hour of polite conversation with all these people , who Jo knew were otherwise pretty cool and mostly also pretty sane , and they would all pretend to be interested in whatever dumb thing she said , and laugh if she made any of her awful little jokes and store away any personal information she disclosed so that they could tell it to their friends the next day and make it absolutely clear that they were on intimate terms with a really big star . |
| 27 | Most participants in special programmes simultaneously answered that they were in temporary jobs because they had been unable to find permanent work ; a small proportion , consisting mainly of YTS participants , saw their places on the scheme as jobs which were temporary because they involved a contract for training . |
| 28 | But the poor were still not the problem that they were in other parts of England . |
| 29 | ‘ One day we went for a walk in woods to the north of London near Barnet , I think , I no longer recall the name , except that they were in those days very pretty and lonely woods for a place so near London . |
| 30 | Basically there are two academics in this country who consider themselves the countries expert in the singular on Corpus building and they are at different ends of the spectrum . |