Example sentences of "they [prep] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One might have suspected them of being adverbs that simply lacked the ordinary morphological marking , as in : ( 12 ) Grandmother took the corner too fast However , one can conclusively show that this is not so by finding examples where the predicate qualifiers fill a position which can also be occupied by a true adverb ; here we observe that the effect is strikingly different . |
| 2 | Then she turned on the crowd and accused them of being cowards . |
| 3 | In September of that year he wrote to Pepys , Locke and other friends accusing them of being atheists or Catholics , and of trying to embroil him with women . |
| 4 | He wrote a series of letters to Pepys , Locke and other friends , accusing them of being atheists and Catholics . |
| 5 | The Somerset establishment ganged up on them , wrongly accused them of being troublemakers , and one committee member tried shamefully to get them sacked from their newspapers . |
| 6 | From there they were handed over to the Americans , who suspected them of being spies and treated them accordingly . |
| 7 | Legal and natural persons are denied access to most international fora ; exclusionary rules prevent them from being parties , interveners , or even witnesses in what they may see as their own claims . |
| 8 | Elean : The colonialists and other defendants of capitalism usually argue that they have brought women into a more advanced state , freeing them from being chattels and providing the labour power for their husbands , especially in polygamous relationships , to be waged workers . |
| 9 | In particular she disliked men , because her political analysis revealed them to be oppressors , and responsible as a sex for many of the worst aspects of our civilization ( war , the arms race , the stock exchange , rape , science , motor cars , additives to food , defoliants , hospital management of childbirth , competitions , multinational companies , cosmetics , pornography and vivisection ) . |
| 10 | We want them to be bailed.A consular official has made regular visits to the jail . |
| 11 | She wanted them to be musicians like her , and both he and Pam were learning instruments , he the violin and Pam the clarinet . |
| 12 | Well er I mean well things like communal ownership advocate them to be reforms |
| 13 | Earnest young poseurs deemed them to be art and the rest of us were bored silly . |
| 14 | I was very fond of these , and often wondered as a child why people did not consider them to be art . |
| 15 | When the disciples first heard from the women that Jesus had risen , they were incredulous : ‘ The story appeared to them to be nonsense , and they would not believe them . ’ |
| 16 | Although no exact figures on EDS ' Italian revenues in 1992 were available , an EDS spokesman estimated them to be $20m , most of which are General Motors Corp-related . |
| 17 | As early as 1889 , Joseph Houghton Spencer plotted lines through churches , barrows , beacon sites and fragments of path , considering them to be remnants of a system of ancient signal stations . |
| 18 | Although tattered and torn , their clothing revealed them to be citizens of late twentieth century Earth . |
| 19 | He could not explain the bloodstains on his trousers , but he strongly suspected them to be rabbit 's blood . |
| 20 | Amnesty International considers them to be prisoners of conscience . |
| 21 | Amnesty International considers all of them to be prisoners of conscience and has repeatedly called on successive Greek Governments to release them and introduce alternative civilian service of non-punitive length . |
| 22 | But a few sidelong glances revealed them to be He-Shes . |
| 23 | ‘ We did n't cut them to be demos . |
| 24 | He wanted them to be servants as well . |
| 25 | And are you actually training girls to be girls , or are you training them to be people . |
| 26 | No , I believe them to be spies working for a rival power aware of my presence in London and suspicious of my intentions . |
| 27 | For example , on almond trees : ‘ I find them to be trees making a good hedge in a short time … look well round a little wilderness quarters planted with flowering shrubs in a small garden . ’ |
| 28 | Although sequence analysis shows them to be lipocalins , molecular replacement using other lipocalin structures as search models failed to produce interpretable solutions ; we therefore used the multiple isomorphous replacement method and prepared three heavy-atom derivatives of MUP . |
| 29 | Although many people suspected them to be lovers , Adam still insisted on secrecy . |
| 30 | We suggest that it enables the parents to pay a compliment to close friends by inviting them to be godparents . |