Example sentences of "[prep] they [am/are] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the terms discussed in Chapter 2 during our reinterpretation of the Chicago School , these groups convert certain districts in what for them are front regions . |
| 2 | Prison visits are too short and the facilities available for them are inadequate . |
| 3 | Of course , at the end of the day they pay the same for them whether directly or through taxation , but if they pay for them directly , in return for service or as private insurance , then their incentives to work for them are greater and the economy benefits . |
| 4 | As with everything else , being aware of the possibilities and preparing for them are essential . |
| 5 | Magnetic storms occurring close to solar maximum are often isolated events because the solar disturbances responsible for them are intense but shortlived . |
| 6 | Reserved offer combinations which prove irrelevant , for the opposing reasons that applications for them are abundant or virtually non-existent , are dispensed with . |
| 7 | The distinctions between them are greater and the guarantee of quality is more uncertain , so you have to rely on experience , advice and a decent shop to help . |
| 8 | Yet since this book abounds in generalisations I shall retain both the simple distinction between official and actual curriculum and the simple argument that the differences between them are wide and disturbing . |
| 9 | These are called lunar transient events and their very transience makes it hard to determine whether all of them are illusory . |
| 10 | ‘ Most of them are bloody wars . |
| 11 | Perhaps some of them are good at putting on a face , saving the grim reality for private moments . |
| 12 | Some of them are good enough , but most are returns from the tumans patrolling Ch'nozia . |
| 13 | That , I mean , the , the appointments what Jane and Linda do make me , I 'll be honest , they 're quality appointments , not all of them but I would sixty , seventy percent of them are good quality appointments . |
| 14 | And some of them are good fun pop in their own right they just happen to be done in a foreign language and with different cultural influences . |
| 15 | Yeah , some of them are good ! |
| 16 | Some of them are good . |
| 17 | of them are such dickheads |
| 18 | Remarkable that out of thirty people elected last May , fifteen of them are new to this Council , a staggering seventeen percent of the Council if you do it statistically . |
| 19 | Knowledgeable boxing fans know that most of them are meaningless . |
| 20 | But some of them are nice . |
| 21 | The standardizing , regularizing , authoritative properties often assigned to print as a medium ( though many of them are inherent in any writing system ) could have full social effect only if they had this broad coherence with general developments in the social and labour processes , to which , however , print was not a mere ancillary , for it was one of the forms of such development . |
| 22 | Some of them are inherent , coming from our parents . |
| 23 | Many of them are powerful gringo media barons . |
| 24 | Hundreds of them are dumb , simple persons , caught in the web of law , unable to comprehend what has happened , what the charge against them is or why they have been sent to jail . |
| 25 | Most of them are petty tradesmen . |
| 26 | Although I believe they are improved as a class , many of them are rough diamonds ; at times they are light-fingered , they are not invariably sober , their education leaves much to be desired and it is impossible to allow them the run of the works after closing hours . |
| 27 | I understand the mood but if some of them are disgruntled they are entitled to call an EGM . |
| 28 | I am sure that providing the proper maintenance is undertaken , many of them are unnecessary . |
| 29 | They form an incomparably useful line on which to trace the gradual mastery of natural forms , and a few of them are great works of sculpture . |
| 30 | Only a proportion of them are successful and the rest must struggle as best they can to obtain mates . |