Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] they [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the beginning of the sixteenth century the fens were less thickly settled than the clay plateau , but 200 years later they were amongst the most populous districts in the county . |
| 2 | Now just to give you some figures I mean same tariff that 's the world price supplied the rest of the world , in fact the tariff on it show them that the operation of a a tariff can affect erm world prices and just to give you some idea erm ah , can we just you know when we were talking about the net economic costs well they 're within the European Community , those costs . |
| 3 | Nine thousand years ago they were about as warm as today , though there was more ice present . |
| 4 | are old and tired songs a hundred years ago they were on the go . |
| 5 | Fifty years ago they were in closer touch . |
| 6 | Five minutes later they were on their way back to Washington . |
| 7 | Twenty minutes later they were on the Salzgitter Autobahn , heading for Nordhausen , some one hundred and ten kilometres to the south . |
| 8 | Minutes later they were on their way in high good humour , Oliver thumbing a guidebook and choosing the things he wanted to see . |
| 9 | Twenty minutes later they were on their way , the three of them piling into the big black Mercedes and heading back to the railway station . |
| 10 | Three minutes later they were in the still-locked room lately occupied by Sir Thomas Throgmorton . |
| 11 | I need to know that it 's necessary to remove all those trees I 've been told all sorts of things like they 're in pots and they 'll become pot bound they 're growing outwards they might fall down they might fracture mains they block off the er view of the church well I think they 're a nice asset in the city centre . |
| 12 | Well you 've only got to go onto Longrow Smithy Row and see those trees there they 're like toy town trees . |
| 13 | The Smiths will never be a band locked into the mechanisms of party politics , but if The Smiths are about life then they are about politics . |
| 14 | If the authorities do not respond to the opinions of the players then they are on dangerous ground and their motives might be questioned . |
| 15 | We heard what Mr er Davis had to say this morning , and at at one point was very very important , we are expecting to be in possession of reports on the greenbelt local enquiry and your report er round about the same time , and indeed since they they are in control of proceedings thereafter they are in a position to make sure that they do n't have to reach decisions on one until they are in possession of the other . |
| 16 | The peas well they were like bullets ! |
| 17 | Provided that volunteers are not allowed a watch and that they do not use television or radio then they are in an environment which combines some of the comforts of home with the more exacting requirements of free-running experiments . |
| 18 | A few moments later they were under the silver birches and as the sun rose , striking flashes of red and green from the drops on ferns and twigs , they scrambled through the hedge , across a shallow ditch and into the thick grass of the meadow . |
| 19 | ‘ I was back here and less than half an hour afterwards they were on my doorstep . ’ |
| 20 | So metropolitan councils , and here 's where the confusions begin to creep in metropolitan councils and some non-metropolitan councils , I E district councils so they 're in a separate ca separate category with this electoral sequence . |
| 21 | If employers try to give notice to change the contract without agreement then they are in fact giving notice to terminate the contract and offering a new one on different terms . |