Example sentences of "[noun] be [prep] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this is true ( and it is not so far-fetched : if you carry on an intelligent argument with your readers in the columns of a newspaper , you can not expect them to believe that the responsibilities of self-government are beyond them ) , then it would seem a good example of propaganda having the opposite effect to that intended . |
| 2 | People hooked on horoscopes sometimes refuse to try for good jobs because the signs are against them . |
| 3 | ‘ Ghilander and Fothaid are with them . |
| 4 | It 's an indictment on our society that The Porch is regarded as their home , and we 're only open for five hours a day , and yet they regard us as their family , and what we the servers are for them is the parents that they lack . |
| 5 | ‘ I think the more arrogant or full of themselves they are , the more they think the songs are about them . |
| 6 | In the majority of cases involving layers , it is not , for unless they are ranked in the top 100 , the major money-making opportunities are beyond them . |
| 7 | In all cases it gives the teenagers taking part a chance to see if engineering and the motor industry are for them . |
| 8 | The wind and waves were against them now , and the four men had to row hard . |
| 9 | Some had time to grab weapons before the intruders were upon them . |
| 10 | Having sifted through the finalists ( Madonna , the Prince of Wales , Ted Turner and Liz McColgan were among them ) it found it impossible to separate two . |
| 11 | Before William 's men could reload , or fix their old-fashioned plug-in bayonets , the enemy were upon them , fearsome in their kilts and ferociously wielding the dirks , claymores and broadswords that had always been the clansmen 's favoured weapons . |
| 12 | His remedy is against them ( Dedman v British Building Ltd , [ 1974 ] ICR 53 at 61F ) |
| 13 | We have now the Cambridge Encyclopaedia which is probably as important to us as the dictionary is to them , it 's a really important new publication for us , and a book which there is n't really an equivalent from Oxford , so I think there 's room for both of us . |
| 14 | On this particular issue , the evidence of over 30 years ' research is before them and there is no lack of evidence to hide behind . |
| 15 | In rather special circumstances this can result in the creation of new dislocations but the much more usual effect is for them to repel each other . |
| 16 | All the action is with them now , and they have all the money . |
| 17 | Thus , one of the functions of parents sending their children to elite schools is for them to be identified as more able . |
| 18 | A prisoner told me he thought Napoleon was with them , but he was n't certain . ’ |
| 19 | She worried too , as soon as The Towers was behind them , about Hal . |
| 20 | When they were born , my only thought for their future was for them to be happy and healthy . |
| 21 | David was amongst them , and George Underwood as well . |
| 22 | The intention was for them to be escorted by the combined fleets from Brest and Toulon and the combination of the two , to outnumber any force likely to be brought against them , was a vital part of the French plan . |
| 23 | The green car was behind them on the pier , in the third line of queuing cars . |
| 24 | But the enemy was behind them . |
| 25 | Well , the result of his way of living was upon them today . |
| 26 | Samson was amongst them , rooting after the unseen joker . |
| 27 | Maggie had forgotten that , Ana being blind , her hearing was acute , and the horse was upon them before she realised it . |
| 28 | They hurried across the plateau , afraid of being caught on the forest path after dark , glad that the wind was behind them , billowing out their skirts and propelling them forward on legs that ran involuntarily . |
| 29 | At last the wind was behind them . |
| 30 | Georgina was among them , but did not look at him . |