Example sentences of "they be [adv] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While their type of product closely parallels Franklin 's , they are ahead of Franklin in moving towards a generic element in their product design . |
| 2 | None of the activities described here exists or is encouraged in any extensive way nationally in the way that hospital or prison work is , but they are nevertheless of interest . |
| 3 | They are mostly of brick , unlike the woollen mills of Yorkshire , which are nearly always of stone . |
| 4 | They are also of interest in enabling the demographic profile of countries to be directly compared . |
| 5 | They are also of interest from a different point of view . |
| 6 | They are also of use in transferring text between incompatible word processing systems or in the restoration of an electronic file that has been accidentally erased . |
| 7 | They are not of value in the description of mature ability , nor in the description of the demands of writing for specific purposes . |
| 8 | If they are not of God , then we are right to be wary . |
| 9 | There are a number of specialist vehicles concentrating on eastern Europe , but they are mainly of interest to institutions . |
| 10 | The segregation of people and vehicles , what is more , has led to new and unforeseen problems , such as the fear that cars are more easily stolen or vandalised when they are out of sight or that segregated pedestrian areas make identification of strangers more difficult and facilitate unobserved escape from the scene of criminal activity . |
| 11 | If they are out of sight ( eg , they leave the buzzing weather-vane in a courtyard and retire indoors ) , the Fiend simply flies away when it appears from the shattering weather-vane . |
| 12 | As for the poor , they have no money because they are out of work ; they pass their time watching game shows on television . |
| 13 | The second reform is that , in order to emphasize the importance of the responsibilities fathers have towards the maintainance of their children , maintainance payments , on a much reduced scale , should continue for people when they are out of work and on welfare themselves . |
| 14 | This is seen as part of its policy to make citizens more self-reliant , and less prone to look to the state for financial and practical support when they are out of work , chronically sick , elderly and infirm and so on . |
| 15 | I again congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Shrewsbury and Atcham on initiating this debate , particularly since virtually everybody I speak to about employment , especially if they are out of work , tell me , ’ It 's tough . |
| 16 | These are not only incorrect ; worse , they are out of date . |
| 17 | And for everybody whose joined after , I think it was last January , we make sure that there is a job description , and that they are given one when they join , and we keep on file erm , but I know that there are loads of people who have been here longer than that some people have got them and they are out of date . |
| 18 | Well it 's very , they are talking about er other issues up to they are talking about the workforce and of the erm the the report from the and er it seems that they do n't really want much to programme forward which I have put for next year very structural maintenance of the and I what the services are actually doing , they have lost council probably say that they are out of control . |
| 19 | Highlighting these few bureaux may give the misleading impression that they are out of line with the mainstream . |
| 20 | The fact that clerks actually wasted most of the money they were trying to save by telephoning Barcelona at peak time , only underlines how far they are out of touch with reality . |
| 21 | It is one thing to look at an ill person and say that they are out of balance . |
| 22 | What their words really imply is that they do not want to think about why they are out of breath on stairs . |
| 23 | The more comparable writers we study , the less likely it is that they are out of step with the norm of the language rather than Swift . |
| 24 | However , turning aside these local instruments , and that is not to suggest that they are unimportant , how may lawyers and interested laymen each year obtain copies of delegated legislation which are thought to , and may indeed , affect their client 's or their own life and course of conduct , only to find that they are out of print or not yet available ? |
| 25 | President Ali Akbar Rafsanjani 's moderation in foreign policy seems to have carried the day in Iran ; hardliners are vociferous in parliament and elsewhere ( the Islamic Republic allows more debate than the shah ever countenanced ) , but they are out of power . |
| 26 | Pilots are most vulnerable to all of these problems when they are out of practice or when they become blasé and do not think about the procedures regularly . |
| 27 | ‘ They are out of season and very expensive , but Alain bought them in Paris this morning , although I imagine it was one of his long-suffering secretaries who was dispatched to buy them . ’ |
| 28 | These people are , we are told , ‘ proud , fanatical and illiterate … generally noble in bearing , polite in address , and profuse in hospitality ; but they are regardless of truth , dishonest in their dealings and secretly immoral in their conduct . ’ |
| 29 | And they 're not of course because what happens is if you follow their advice and put ten pounds into Global Investment for example then Global Investments will at that stage will pay them . |
| 30 | Tucked away behind us , backs suffer because they 're out of sight and difficult to reach — drawbacks which easily lead to neglect . |