Example sentences of "[Wh adv] they be in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again the two brothers were pushing at each other and as they all mounted the steps Ellen stepped and walked by the side of her son , something she was in the habit of doing whenever they were in company , and which Joe had been aware of from the time she had recovered after his uncle 's death . |
| 2 | Teenaged boys paraded in groups of three or four , jostling each other , laughing and shouting ; groups of girls , on the whole less brash and aggressive , giggled and chattered , calling to the boys whenever they were in range . |
| 3 | It says they 're based on actual interviews with the women involved and that some additional parts have been written to show how they are in fact involved in a global chain . |
| 4 | He was serving on the battleship HMS Agincourt during the Battle of Jutland and related how they were in line astern to The Queen Mary and , when the latter was hit in the magazine and blew up , they sailed over the spot without feeling a thing . |
| 5 | This is a code of conduct for directors of listed companies requiring them not to deal in their own company 's shares on short-term considerations or at a time when they are in possession of unpublished price-sensitive information . |
| 6 | They may not recognise when they are in danger , for example when crossing a busy road , or they may not know how to carry out even the most basic safety precautions necessary for the prevention of fire , accidents and infection . |
| 7 | ‘ Because it 's what they always talk about when they 're in queues . |
| 8 | Is n't this exactly the kind of thing people say when they 're in love ? |
| 9 | They 're friendly when they know you , but not when they 're in pig . |
| 10 | Offending works , he thought , should be suppressed after they had been published rather than when they were in manuscript . |
| 11 | A Mr J. Franklin from Beachampton , who worked in the Smithy , used to trap and bring rabbits to work every Monday morning when they were in season , for which he charged 2s 6d ( 12. ½p ) each . |
| 12 | Des was telling me about when they were in training for the Commandos . |
| 13 | Apart from those used in archaeological experiments , reconstructions mainly show what sites and finds were like when they were in use . |
| 14 | No , I was thinking of history , what th , where they are in history . |
| 15 | You have to care for them , which means starting from where they are in life , not where you want them to be , and taking their lives and lack of belief seriously . |
| 16 | It 's important to them because it proves where they are in life , they do n't want to stay like where their parents were , they want to prove . |
| 17 | In the second stage , usually identified with areas 18 and 19 ( also known as prestriate cortex ) , information about where things are on the retina is lost and replaced with information about where they are in relation to each other . |
| 18 | It is simply that the necessary distinctions are not to be found at the level of categorical separation but rather at the level where they are in fact produced , which is that of both general and specific cultural and social orders . |
| 19 | Beating the bounds , when the parishioners walked round the parish boundaries to ensure that everyone knew where they were in case of dispute , was associated with the Rogationtide crop blessing . |
| 20 | They felt that the press laid too great an emphasis on the frailty of older people and situations where they were in danger , rather than showing them as active members of the community . |
| 21 | One suburban Anglican church in Surrey , England discovered on doing this exercise that they had to gain on average thirty-four new members each year just to stay where they were in terms of membership , such was the high level of mobility in their community . |
| 22 | Then one could spin it round when news , travel or holiday programmes on radio and television specify certain places and you could see where they were in relation to Britain and the rest of the world . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's a complete mystery as to why they 're in Scapa Flow , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Nor should banks be allowed to forget why they are in difficulties . |
| 25 | Nobody knows why they are in Sunnyvista or what is happening outside the city . |
| 26 | If nothing else , this explains why they are in politics and I 'm not , although it does n't explain why I 'm in journalism . |