Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [be] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 You may have been in they may been in the infants when
2 Important as they may be to the birds and trout , they can be very annoying to humans and , although they may not bite , the sheer numbers of midges and blackflies have been known to send birdwatchers — and particularly photographers — into paroxysms of rage and frustration .
3 Often political and economic policies are unclear to educationists , sometimes they may be in the hands of tyrants , not infrequently they conflict , but they can never be ignored .
4 Well , they ca n't get into the gardens from this side , so they must be in the woods .
5 But I do n't think everyone is as aware as they should be of the after-effects .
6 ‘ If they have horses , ’ Thorfinn said , ‘ they 'll be at the Ochils by now , and at Tayside with two hours to spare before the fleet gets into the river .
7 They 'll be over the Legions twelve o'clock .
8 Although Charlie was still thin — now a flyweight — and not all that tall , once his seventeenth birthday had come and gone he noticed that the ladies on the corner of the Whitechapel Road , who were still placing white feathers on anyone wearing civilian clothes who looked as if they might be between the ages of eighteen and forty , were beginning to eye him like impatient vultures .
9 Honestly if it was them that had to stuff those navy blue fitted sheets into the automatic after he 's been home they 'd be Under No Delusions .
10 After they were finally discovered to be there , the minister pleaded for them to be allowed to stay the night , and guaranteed they would be at the Children 's Panel Hearing in Kirkwall the next day .
11 But they would be on the lines they would be on there are erm measures being taken at the moment
12 Special Branch , which works closely with MI5 , has its own computer system which keeps records on many millions of people none of whom have committed any offence ( if they had they would be on the Police National Computer ) split into 27 different groups such as ‘ interesting ’ , ‘ controversial ’ and ‘ subversive ’ .
13 Those would assess if they would be among the winners and losers from the reform of a tax system which Mr Lamont said was starting to appear increasingly anachronistic .
14 Servette qualified for the UEFA Cup by finishing fourth in the Swiss League but last November it looked like they would be in the Champions ' Cup .
15 They would be in the hills above Ivrigar by now .
16 They also mean that lending rates , due to the higher cost must be higher and deposit rates must be lower than they would be in the Euromarkets .
17 The authors speculate that this may be because , with a centralised collective bargaining system which is fairly remote from the workers , ‘ the less conscious they will be of the gains achieved , and hence the less likely they are to be credited to union activity ’ ( p. 109 ) .
18 They have sons , no doubt , but most of them will be in the Volunteers already , and I see that they too are exempt .
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