Example sentences of "be [prep] [verb] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Whitehouse reads the letters : someone called John Huntley , a model , gained the confidence to enter his profession through Mr McLean 's kindness ; Janice Joyce , who knew McLean at the Hippodrome , thinks the only way Lenny could really kill anyone would be by making them laugh . |
| 2 | It is about helping them to recognise the resources that they have to offer one another and to use them effectively in response to individual interests and learning needs . |
| 3 | Catholic Education is not simply about preparing young people for the job market — it is about enabling them to become fully human , it is about learning to make moral judgements and about the whole process of Christian formation . |
| 4 | It is like expecting them to see distant stars without the help of any binoculars or telescopes but just with their own native eyesight . |
| 5 | But to expect people to live reasonably is like asking them to live on paregoric . ’ |
| 6 | What I really could not understand was why the senator did not beat ten kinds of nonsense out of a son who told him to cool it , but telling middle-class Americans to thump their kids is like asking them to burn their flag , so I did not waste my time . |
| 7 | One of the most common ways of providing training for intermediaries is by letting them observe and work with a trained searcher . |
| 8 | A second method of promoting the interests of domestic producers is by permitting them to enter into collaborations of various kinds . |