Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't been involved in the organization and knew very little about what was going to happen . |
| 2 | That for me is the ideal copy ’ . |
| 3 | That for him was not the problem , however . |
| 4 | There are implications in all of this for what are regarded as indices of success for enforcement officials and agencies . |
| 5 | This for them is just one step along the way . |
| 6 | This for me is Sibelius . |
| 7 | Read in this way , community policing in Northern Ireland seems designed exclusively to improve relations between the police and Catholics , but it is much wider than this for it is also employed in Protestant t areas like Easton , where the existence of ‘ ordinary crime ’ ensures that the police are keen to improve crime prevention by better relations with the public generally . |
| 8 | This for us is the spiritual warfare to which we are called ; it is our small though crucial engagement in the Great Battle between good and evil . |
| 9 | ‘ What 's this about something being wrong ? ’ |
| 10 | He and Tony got on well : they started arguing over whether it was better to have two bits of black pudding rather than two sausages in the terminal café , and when that battle was over they started another about who was going to have the window seat on the plane . |
| 11 | To flush some out it is occasionally necessary to put a copy of the authority in a sealed envelope and insist it be conveyed at once to the chief executive . |
| 12 | But , this of itself is not deemed sufficient as preparation for R.E . |
| 13 | Half of them are spies and secret policemen . |
| 14 | Such enterprises now account for more than 60 per cent of industrial employment in countries as far apart as Ghana and Tanzania ; more than half of them are located in small towns and villages , and the extended family is their most important source of labour ; they contribute at least a quarter of total manufacturing output ; and typically they employ between one and ten workers . |
| 15 | ‘ Half of them are KGB , and I would n't trust the other half , ’ he said bitterly . |
| 16 | Of course people are talking pretty big at the moment but half of them are as ready to drop as I am . ’ |
| 17 | Half of them are on it anyway . |
| 18 | There are currently 79,000 children and young people being cared for by the local authorities in the U.K. and half of them are looking for foster homes . |
| 19 | For example , nobody could possibly observe as a matter of fact that most ‘ able bodied young adults ’ are male , because half of them are female . |
| 20 | Less than half of them are first-preference votes . |
| 21 | Half of them are directly elected in 248 territorial constituencies , and the other half are additional members indirectly elected by means of party-list votes . |
| 22 | For instance you 've got a , you 've got er staff here , half of them are women , would that be the same situation in schools in there ? |
| 23 | I do n't know why they do it , the screws , because half of them are bent as butchers ' hooks anyway . |
| 24 | Every adult has a vote but only half of them are ratepayers . |
| 25 | I 've learnt about 60 I suppose overall and half of them are duds naughty words or words for something completely different . |
| 26 | Half of them are n't in — and a message like that is n't something you can very well leave with a neighbour . |
| 27 | Statistically , half of them are women , and that third of the world 's population is only now beginning to feel that they have a say in the running of their lives . |
| 28 | Considering the Hay & Maddock results for human geography , where the authors found that 40% of social scientists rarely refer to theses , and 29% do not use them at all , it will be apparent that geological theses form a significant element in the communication process , since almost half of them are cited . |
| 29 | ‘ Seven or eight hundred years of sewers , underground rivers , tunnels , and nobody knows where half of them are until they 're excavating or making changes , as they were at the Priory . |
| 30 | A few weeks of war and from what the psychiatrists are saying more than half of them are shattered for life . |