Example sentences of "[subord] they be [det] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 We do not know which , if any , of these treatments is effective at the moment , although they are all in current use and variously recommended by health professionals .
2 Although they are fewer in the current recession , opportunities still definitely exist in this country .
3 Even if they 're all about quality control .
4 If they 're all on a par , we take them on a first come , first served basis .
5 If they 're all like this they could infect everything in the Domain .
6 When the signs are the same if they 're two pluses you add them and it 's plus if they 're both minus you add them and it 's minus here you take the smaller from the larger and give it the sign of a larger .
7 It can be hard if they are all in a group talking about people or things you know nothing about .
8 ‘ I do n't care if they are all like that , ’ Nora said .
9 In circumstances such as this the local historian has perhaps two problems : to attempt to find a feudal or familial association or dependency , and , if the arms are uncoloured , to ascertain if they are those of le Scot , Ridel , Basset , Wrottesley or Bryan , or , indeed , some other line .
10 The availability of similar speeds across the network could make the future remote facilities as intuitive and supportive as if they were all on the user 's desktop .
11 Where the rights in question are spelt out , they are often lumped together , as if they were all of the same kind .
12 Instead of a series of national financial systems linked by a few operators buying and selling credit across the exchanges , we now have a global system , in which national markets , physically separate , function as if they were all in the same place .
13 Finnigan has demonstrated how misleading it is to describe ‘ primitive societies ’ as if they were all in some way ‘ dominated by kinship ’ ( Finnigan , 1970 , pp. 1 7 1–94 ) , and Laslett and his associates at Cambridge have shown how , in many ways , the composition of the family in pre-industrial England was similar to that of the family of today ( Laslett , 1965 ) .
14 I ca n't say whether this is true or not but I have been told , it was spoke about when I was a kid , that they never saw each other except if they were both of the same religion .
15 It was just a bit in The Echo cos they 're all about here and
16 Erm , erm , only too willing to welcome competition cos they 're all to aware of my short comings , mm .
17 Aye but he was behind the this cos they 're all in the in the same boat you know , they 're all families , family affair is n't it .
18 Yeah , she 's done it , and er Doug put wardrobes up and drawers like , cos they 're all in flat packs
19 Well no , cos they 're all in the pile love somewhere .
20 Yeah cos they 're all in the same set , cos they 're , cos they 're bo cos all of them are thick .
21 It 's cos they 're both on the picture .
22 But yeah , but the pure orange I would n't dare to touch Cos they 're some of them canned orange drinks are
23 Yeah cos they were all in there .
24 I , I mean I went like this into dinner okay , and I suppose everyone was like what 's she doing in a skirt or whatever cos they were all like looking and then like half way when I was eating I could feel them all staring at me and laughing and Jim and that lot were laughing and I could see Charlie
25 But is it fair if Labour 's revenue demands fall heaviest on middle class employees simply because they are more of a captive market ?
26 He could never wash a cup up because they were all on the draining board .
27 Because they were all in English , well American .
28 Boil them slowly till they are all to pieces ; then squeeze and strain them through a bag .
29 At best , that understanding is only partial , but anthropologists would claim that they have a much better insight into the motives and perceptions of " other people " than do scholars who work within other conventions — whether they be those of pure science or of the humanities .
30 I might then ask him to look at his hands and see whether they are those of someone who does manual work or whether they seem to belong to a well-to-do person .
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