Example sentences of "[subord] they be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | These metaphors are important rhetoric devices in narratives of empowerment and emancipation , where they are used to ‘ naturalize ’ particular victimologies , and even , sometimes , to justify the enterprise of revenge . |
| 2 | The effect of trees on foundation design was discussed earlier but a physical inspection of the site should include the location of all major trees , particularly where they are required to be retained under a tree preservation order and may therefore affect layout and density . |
| 3 | If you do manage to overcome this one , the next problem is to simulate the migratory tendencies of moving upstream to fresher waters where they are reported to be pelagic egg-layers . |
| 4 | They consist of a cabinet or tunnel in which items are placed and where they are subjected to hot spray of detergent solution followed by rinse water . |
| 5 | Set gill-nets are much shorter , and are used mostly in shallow coastal seas , where they are anchored to the seabed . |
| 6 | Newco should thus be entitled to deduct interest payments as charges on income where they are paid to UK tax-paying corporate holders of share-convertible securities . |
| 7 | Relatives from east London travelled to the funeral via Upton Park , where they were said to ‘ overwhelmed ’ by West Ham supporters ' floral tributes to Moore , who died last week from cancer at the age of 51 . |
| 8 | Their chances of success were far less where they were relegated to the position of enactor or mere facilitator , as some were . |
| 9 | Up to last year we used to collect used postage stamps and then when our dear friend Father Burbage left for Zambia we had to abandon it because we had no idea where they were sent to . |
| 10 | They did all the hard work , and lived in dirty little rooms in another building , where they were tied to the walls . |
| 11 | He amassed great wealth with his success , sending his pack horses with wool and cloth to London and Southampton , where they were shipped to Holland and the Low Countries . |
| 12 | In an experiment carried out at Palmer Station on the Antarctic Peninsula in 1989 , microscopic floating ocean plants ( phytoplankton ) were taken from the nearby bay and brought into the laboratory , where they were subjected to levels of ultra-violet radiation estimated to be equivalent to the amount of ultra-violet being transmitted through the ozone hole which has been developing in Antarctica each spring in recent years . |
| 13 | The increased closure of brothels as a result of this drive forced poorer women to solicit in the open , where they were subjected to police harassment . |
| 14 | The youths were held prisoner at the Mandela home where they were subjected to vicious assaults . |
| 15 | In experiments on rats it has been shown that where experimenters expected rats to be maze-bright , the rats fulfilled their expectation and where they were expected to be maze-dull the rats also fulfilled expectations . |
| 16 | Although they are employed to a much greater extent than the rest of the percussion , it must be realized that their effectiveness largely depends on a sparing use of them . |
| 17 | Used as an utterance in context it may have many meanings , which , although they are connected to this context-free sentence meaning , may be extremely varied . |
| 18 | There has been a series of decisions over the past 50 years which , although they are said to be cases of estoppel are not really such . |
| 19 | Although they are committed to individual advice work , they consider such work to be limited in its effectiveness . |
| 20 | This activity worried the union leadership and the government because , although they were committed to a strong social-property sector , the government was adamant that this should be achieved by legal and orderly means . |
| 21 | Most of all , although they were meant to be secret , these were secrets that were fairly indifferently kept ; if , indeed , they were kept at all . |
| 22 | On the one hand , there were those who , once the prospect of redundancy had been raised , were reconciled to early retirement and to a greater or lesser extent relieved at leaving work , although they were attached to their employer and would not in all probability have left prematurely of their own volition . |
| 23 | Station-masters in all but the meanest stations aspired to high status , although they were subjected to great physical dangers during times of civil disturbance , the Revolution , and the Civil War . |
| 24 | People at all levels of the organization can accomplish very much more than they are asked to under contemporary conventions . |
| 25 | The point is that they are unlikely to find answers to these questions neatly encapsulated in a few words , and so they are forced to be selective in what they read . |
| 26 | They are gifts fit for a king , and so they are meant to be . |
| 27 | Well you see they 've been brainwashed to that sort of music so they 're bound to , bound to like it . |
| 28 | ‘ Kids kept insisting on actually meeting ‘ The Raisins ’ , so they were brought to life for celebrity appearances in New York 's Thanksgiving Day Parade — and even for the presidential inauguration , ’ said Ms Wood . |
| 29 | Neither of the men knew , so they were taken to the station and charged with stealing a car . |
| 30 | ‘ The meals are very different from what you would get at home , but once they are brought to the boil they give off a most delicious smell . ’ |