Example sentences of "[prep] they be [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them are potent ganglion blocking agents and were introduced into clinical medicine , but they had grave disadvantages . |
| 2 | Our team of judges — the majority of them are National Vegetable Society judges — report that competition standards are up . |
| 3 | He defeated three other candidates , one of them being leading Sajudis member Romualdas Ozalas . |
| 4 | The Gloucestershire Regiment — shortly to face being amalgamated as part of the Governments defence cuts — wants more young recruits and spending a day with them is one way potential soldiers find out if it 's the life for them . |
| 5 | Among them was former MP Koigi wa Wamwere , arrested on his return from exile in Norway in October , who in 1988 had founded the banned opposition Kenya Patriotic Front ( KPF ) [ see pp. 36917-18 ] . |
| 6 | The reasons for doing so were various , but prominent among them was that quality chess seemed to demand the ability to devise a plan and stick to it when circumstances changed in unpredictable ways . |