Example sentences of "they [be] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fruits and vegetables , even in their raw , unprocessed state , differ so much that you certainly ca n't say that all of them are useful sources of fibre . |
| 2 | Among them are outstanding objects from the Olmec , Aztec and Maya civilisations including a turquoise Aztec mosaic mask in the form of two intertwined rattlesnakes , painted codices from pre-Hispanic times , among them the Codex Zouche , stone architectural fragments from Mayan sites and jades from the Olmec period . |
| 3 | The changes taking place are manifested in diverse forms , and have very different starting points , but underlying them are similar sets of questions and pressures . |
| 4 | They form an incomparably useful line on which to trace the gradual mastery of natural forms , and a few of them are great works of sculpture . |
| 5 | Remember , many of them are married men with families and jobs . |
| 6 | ‘ They have never been in that position before some of them are classic cases of Thatcher 's children . |
| 7 | All of them are potential sources of trouble for a beginner in Word . |
| 8 | And too many of them are deliberate re-runs of those seen in the aforementioned film . |
| 9 | Among them are three paintings by Paul Klee : ‘ Full Moon ’ ( 1919 ) , ‘ Nocturnal Plants Growing ’ ( 1922 ) and ‘ Garden with Birds ’ ( 1929 ) ; two by Max Beckmann : ‘ Woman with a Mandolin ’ ( 1950 ) and ‘ Winter Landscape ’ ( 1934 ) ; Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 's ‘ Mardersteig Brothers ’ ( 1922 ) ; Emil Nolde 's ‘ Girls in their party dresses ’ ( 1918 ) ; Alexei von Jawlensky 's ‘ Mediterranean Coast ’ ( 1907 ) and Ludwig Meidner 's ‘ Suicide ’ ( 1912 ) . |
| 10 | Now North Yorkshire County Council er I think in their statement look to erm to existing market towns to provide what little evidence they can up to justify fourteen hundred dwellings , er I think that 's again a simplistic approach because by definition the market now can seal them up wider catchment area , many of them are some distance from York , and the settlements concerned provide a service base for a number of surrounding villages , and therefore the actual specialities and services found within that particular settlement are greater than one would achieve if it did not have a large catchment area . |
| 11 | He might have been persuaded to have them out here but he would not let them be any sort of nuisance , and she was well aware of it . |
| 12 | They are deeply-felt songs of pioneering days ; for instance : |
| 13 | It seems that the best explanation for the survival of this kind of insider knowledge is that the knowledge is reinforced by frequent close contact with other speakers , and this is best accessed by a theory of network ties , which when they are strong function as norm-enforcement mechanisms . |
| 14 | For instance , all four operators U , D , L and R of the eight tiles problem are reversible , but they are partial functions on the set of states and so they do not have inverses . |
| 15 | Volunteers can help clients more effectively if they are allocated time for tasks other than direct interviewing . |
| 16 | Partly because the words are muffled by a warm , dense wall of flesh ; partly because they are rhyming couplets of multiple hexameters , mouthed in an obscure Baltic dialect now lost . |
| 17 | In general they are one-way tracks on both sides of main roads between intersections , at which there are grade-separated flyovers or level junctions with traffic light priority for cyclists ( Figure 9.11 ) . |
| 18 | Unlike chemical antiseptics , essential oils are harmless to tissue , yet they are powerful aggressors towards germs . |
| 19 | Certainly they are powerful examples of how meditations on the Passion were designed to work in inner experience and they illuminate aspects of the " form " of contemplative living in ways characteristic of Rolle . |
| 20 | ‘ They are n't — they are standard holidays at reduced cost . ’ |
| 21 | yes , I mean , in contra-distinction to that , first of all a number of these increased charges , like fifty p for a journey to a day centre , they are standard practice in other counties . |
| 22 | They are elementary properties of the replicator itself , properties that have a direct effect on its probability of being replicated . |
| 23 | Such debts and claims are not rights over any specific tangible objects ; they are mere rights against the State or the corporation or the person liable to pay . |
| 24 | They are mere apologists for the existing system . |
| 25 | The supposition that Theunis — or maybe his father — invented the name Krankoor shortly before emigrating comes from the fact that no surviving Krankoors , nor records of such a family , have come to light in Holland ; two Crankos live in The Hague but they are recent arrivals from South Africa . |
| 26 | Therefore , in a sense , they are central people with a particular perspective . ’ |
| 27 | The working class in effect delegates investment decisions to capitalists because they are better allocators of investment funds , especially in resisting the temptation to consume too much out of the current social product . |
| 28 | Hence , they are better value for money and potentially a stronger unit which will last longer . |
| 29 | They are seductive sources of pleasure . |
| 30 | They differ from older forms of association in that they are two-way trades of complementary strengths among competitors . |