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

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1 True demi-caractère dancers with a sense of comedy are still rare but they are to be found .
2 If they are to be found , that is . ’
3 The numbers of those who have added to the ‘ goodness ’ on earth are legion , and they are to be found among all the races of the world , from origins of the humblest to the most exalted .
4 They are to be found everywhere , even among the old , the disabled , the celibate , the deserted and the bereaved -in fact , all those who have learned to value and use left-over love .
5 They are to be found only on lime-rich soils .
6 Certainly within science they are to be found in a highly concentrated form and used in a far more rigorous and systematic fashion .
7 But they are to be found in any of the ‘ enclosure counties ’ and may be identified immediately as the work of the enclosure commissioners .
8 Seasonal peaks are not specific to the service sector ; they are to be found in certain parts of manufacturing — particularly In food processing but also in a number of consumer goods industries -and in agriculture .
9 Their emphasis is usually ‘ Christian ’ rather than ‘ denominational ’ and they are to be found almost wholly in large conurbations .
10 Sometimes they are to be found in close proximity ; and there are certainly empirical connections between them .
11 The Burgundians first come fully into view in the pages of Ammianus Marcellinus , where they are to be found to the east of the Rhine .
12 Er your Royal Highness , Chairman , Commodores , Ladies and Gentlemen , the accounts have been circulated and they are to be found on pages eight to fourteen with the report and there are copies around the room .
13 Yet last Saturday they were to be found in Henley , rowing in trials together with up to a hundred other hopefuls from all over Britain .
14 Sometimes they were to be found in a corner , solemnly talking to a rather battered doll whose arms and legs were always popping off , waiting to be clipped on by a passing ‘ brother ’ who was inevitably obliging .
15 In Buckinghamshire four of the five wealthiest lived in Aylesbury , Amersham and Buckingham , and elsewhere they were to be found at places like Bromsgrove and Kidderminster , Worcs. , and Blakeney , Little Walsingham and Great Yarmouth , Norfolk .
16 Testimony and documentary evidence would , they envisaged , be presented either to the forum court or obtained by Letter of Request in the foreign country in which they were to be found .
17 The book trade — where they were to be found in large numbers — differed from the other kinds of printing in several ways .
18 They were to be found on school working parties , at fund-raising events and parents ' evenings .
19 It is probably no accident that they were to be found in most classes of urban or other settlements and in military vici .
20 In fact while we find duces in charge of groups of civitates , they also appear as leaders of royal armies , without any clear geographical base , and they were to be found engaged in a wide variety of other activites , including diplomatic missions .
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