Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [am/are] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 But with their sparse population they are scarcely worth the price of a campaign advertisement .
2 Bangladeshi babies are thought to be vulnerable , and they sleep close to other people both day and night ; at night they are either in the mother 's bed or in a cot next to it , a practice also reported by Farooqi et al .
3 It 's not just in my area they 're all over the place in Scotland as well , so
4 I mean what sort of lifeline are you throwing out to those people , because there are a lot of people in that category , they just do n't know where to turn , everything 's going up and now with this huge rise they are almost on the street .
5 The travellers have now left their sites in Milton Keynes … but police are keeping track of their movements in case they 're soon in a popsition to make an arrest .
6 Today they are Mr and Mrs Barnard , but for this weekend they are both in the uniforms of lance-corporals , both members of the sapper squadron , but in different sections .
7 People get a very negative attitude , they think that these , like there was a caller recently that sort of equated nationalism with er , with you know Nazis and , that 's completely wrong , I mean , but , and , and , you 're all in the news you 're always hearing about the radical nationalist deputies as if they 're some sort of strange breed of person , but in fact they 're just like the MPs in our House of Commons , democratically elected people , sensible people who want peace , they want prosperity for their country and er , there 's , there 's no mad empire imperial ambitions , Lithuania has no need for an army or anything , but er apart from just maintaining er internal er control , but er people have a very strange attitude a very anti nationalists , I find it curious .
8 If they do not achieve office they are still in a special relationship to government in which , while some advantages may accrue from being a member of the ruling party and having many colleagues and friends in office , there may also be disadvantages in that party allegiance implies a duty to support the government .
9 IT IS more than possible that I am missing a point , showing a lack of imagination , remaining in the Middle Ages and have my feet firmly stuck in the mud when I am under the impression they are just on the ground .
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