Example sentences of "[prep] they [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leftists and Republicans were therefore entitled to feel that whether the right as a whole , or merely one element of it , achieved power , the consequences for them were likely to be more or less equally unpleasant . |
| 2 | A diatonic-scale glissando goes very well with a chromatic scale on the wind , no discrepancy between them being discernible to the ear . |
| 3 | It does not follow , however , that the division between Catholic and Reformed societies and the antagonism between them were irrelevant to the fortunes of the Copernican system . |
| 4 | Conversation with Alexei had been limited for the past day to standard matters of duty , and since he had not been able to think of anything which he could say to change his son 's attitude , he had allowed himself to accept that the state of affairs which existed between them was likely to be permanent . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Despite the entitlements spelled out in the supplementary benefit regulations , many of them are subject to discretion . |
| 7 | It is possible to adjust the data for the high proportion of part-time workers , by assuming that two of them are equivalent to one full-time worker . |
| 8 | ‘ All of them are vulnerable to coastal erosion and are being nibbled away by the sea . |
| 9 | Much of them are unreclaimed to this day , as in Dorset , Hampshire and Surrey . |
| 10 | Some of them are near to tears . |
| 11 | If we return to the example of our widget-making factory after the introduction of the new production process , with half its workforce put on to the labour market ( or , putting it more bluntly , sacked ) , then many of them are likely to be eligible for unemployment benefit . |
| 12 | Not to imitate it , of course , but to gauge whether any of them are likely to be interested in the kind of work you write . |
| 13 | With most major life events , it is likely to be very difficult both to identify people who have recently experienced an event and find out which of them are likely to be susceptible to psychiatric disorder as a consequence . |
| 14 | It is not known exactly where the birds end up , although some of them are likely to be eaten as game by African farmers . |
| 15 | If there are , for example , 11,000 accident repairers in the UK , most of them are likely to be small ; one-man operations or not much bigger . |
| 16 | Thirty per cent of them are unfit to be used for education . |
| 17 | This , coupled with the fact that they are also relatively low paid , means that many of them are unattractive to many of the unemployed . |
| 18 | Which of them is nearest to a bus route ? |
| 19 | ‘ One of them is married to our present king , ’ Huy said quietly . |
| 20 | Which of them is close to shops ? |
| 21 | A prime mover of Art Nouveau was A. H. Mackmurdo , but so were many famous artists — from Aubrey Beardsley , book illustrator , to Henri Guimard , designer of Paris Métro stations ; from the glassware of Louis Conford Tiffany to the architecture of Antoni Gaudi and early Frank Lloyd Wright — that any list of them is likely to be incomplete . |
| 22 | To say that ‘ if all you have in life is bad choices , crack may not be the most unpleasant of them is irresponsible to an astonishing degree ’ . |
| 23 | The clarity of formal rules — if the rules are clear , specific and cover every eventuality there would be no question of them being open to interpretation . |
| 24 | The loyalists now had the grounds they needed to be able to argue that the executive was undemocratic : the people of Ulster had finally been given a chance to vote on the issue and 50.8 per cent of them were opposed to power-sharing . |
| 25 | Most of them were used to paying regular visits to the friendly neighbourhood pawnbroker , but on the objects they brought to him they could not expect to raise any great sums . |
| 26 | All of them owed their existence to the efforts and generosity of private citizens and clergy ; most of them were similar to Joseph Watson 's asylum . |
| 27 | More and more of them were appealing to the tribunals and to their MPS . |
| 28 | It happened that , for whatever reason , the charge was signed only by the first appellant , whereas both of them were entitled to the freehold . |
| 29 | The eye she opened travelled across an expanse of hairy chest , shocking her into awareness of who she lay on and that , by the feel of it , both of them were next to naked . |
| 30 | His spiritualist interest began in late teens , and colours much of the work — notably an interesting poetic story about how he made a promise with a friend that whichever of them was first to the ‘ other side ’ would attempt to communicate to the other — and how it happened . |