Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] they [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority of them are from Thailand , the Philippines and the Indian sub-continent . |
| 2 | The simple statistical confirmation that the majority of them were from 1984 onwards — and probably from that particular Friday , though one can not be certain — in the skies above the Pacific Ocean was ( for me and I suspect for most who came to know ) the first and final affirmation that from now on this part of the world was the centre of things . |
| 3 | The half of them are on my rent-roll anyway . ’ |
| 4 | Again , the difference between them is in the language used to describe this process : for determinists manipulation is achieved by altering the factors that cause criminal behaviour ; for indeterminists it is achieved by making crime a relatively less attractive choice . |
| 5 | Each suspected the other ( each suspected ) of personal , biographical reasons for arguing the case that each , by and large , argued : and the difference between them was in itself odd , as in the great graph of time and place their paths had oddly crossed and oddly coincided . |
| 6 | An air of double-dealing and deceit hangs over those negotiations , as if to suggest that the record of them is in itself a distortion . |
| 7 | However , despite the complications , each of these types of function has a relatively clear central core , and the distinction between them is of importance in several areas of administrative law . |
| 8 | The distinction between them is of considerable importance . |
| 9 | This practice of marking searches , requisitions , etc , should be an invariable one for three reasons : ( 1 ) it compels you to consider each question and reply before marking it ; ( 2 ) it will save your time in selecting answers that require further action , and will avoid your reading through the enquiries again later on to make sure that the replies to them are in order ; and ( 3 ) it is a permanent record that at the time of the transaction you not only made your search , etc , but duly considered and dealt with the replies . |
| 10 | The young Edward Fitzgerald , who became a sceptic , wrote to his friend Thackeray , ‘ I think the evidence for them is to be doubted . |
| 11 | No I do n't know when they 're making decisions , the deadline for them being in was the end of the financial year , |
| 12 | The differences between them are of the same order as the differences between modern Dutch and standard German : the Brut retains the OE case-inflexions and grammatical gender , whereas the Peterborough Chronicle , even though it is an earlier document , has lost most of these . |
| 13 | It was visibly true that the CNAA , as one education correspondent put it , was ‘ busy about the job it was set up to do — to award degrees and to make sure that the standards of them are at least up to university level ’ . |
| 14 | She does fulfil his hopes , in a way ; and the fulfilment of them is in itself a kind of disappointment ; and her name is Rose . |
| 15 | The modern architect makes sure his church and his school are built of less stern stuff , for the landscape around them is of shifting sand . |
| 16 | Well , we seem to be a society that is very much orientated to crisis management rather than prevention , and perhaps we 're very good at recognizing our human needs and our children 's needs in terms of their nourishment , their physical and intellectual development , but perhaps not quite so well acquainted with their emotional needs to feel safe and secure with the adults around them being in control and able to handle their lives and the world 's situation in a mature and secure way . |
| 17 | And the circumfe and erm diameter on I 'd been cutting a lot of them down , the diameter of them was from four foot to about six foot . |
| 18 | yeah , you ca n't totter a bit without them being on it , they 're like vultures sitting on a rail there , looking at you |
| 19 | Residents appreciated the low traffic volume and near absence of through-traffic and a majority of them was in complete agreement over the restrictions on cars . |
| 20 | And he says , as a result of them being in unity , dwelling together in unity , he says it is there that the Lord commanded the blessing . |
| 21 | Erm and the only way we 're going to raise a profile with them is by is by making sure that whenever can we support their actions . |
| 22 | And to add to all the infamous circumstances which concur to plague a traveller , I must not forget the eternally meeting with chalk-waggons ; themselves frequently stuck fast , till a collection of them are in the same situation , and twenty or thirty horses may be tacked to each , to draw them out one by one . |
| 23 | ‘ In return for a cessation of violence , amnesties have been granted to the Furs and a number of them are to be co-opted onto the Government . |
| 24 | ‘ A lot of them are under the water and you ca n't see them . |
| 25 | ‘ A lot of them are about you . |
| 26 | Well they interest me because a lot of them are about , about the army and no , no , pretty far ranging , army , navy , but er , a lot of them about India er but he a , he certainly a criticized the er , the powers of being , you know , in the er , you know in the Boer War , the Great War and you know , and up to the thirties . |
| 27 | Mm , some of , a lot of them are like that |
| 28 | And a lot of them are before that . |
| 29 | A lot of them are in West Belfast . |
| 30 | A lot of them were in no fit state to know if work needed to be done on their homes or how much it would cost them . ’ |