Example sentences of "they [vb base] be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we accept that we can not prevent science and technology from changing our world , we can at least try to ensure that the changes they make are in the right directions . |
| 2 | Fortunately for frail elderly people , there are many who offer altruistic neighbouring acts , that is to say , they are done without assumptions of reciprocity ; the gratification which they obtain is in a sense their own private business ! |
| 3 | Our participants lived on a large 1960s council estate on the outskirts of a county town and the schoolrooms they describe were in the local comprehensive school situated on the estate . |
| 4 | Many of them are well known , such as Edinburgh Castle and Stirling Castle , but we have to ensure that people are aware that some of the lesser-known sites they visit are in the care of Historic Scotland , and that they realise many more are on offer , ’ says Bill . |
| 5 | Firms like ICI in Runcorn have far more workers whom they claim are in danger of losing their jobs because of electricity costs . |
| 6 | If I got these two they are positional isomers because the carbon chain is the same and the only way they differ is in a position of a functional group . |
| 7 | These two here are also positional isomers , there carbon chains are the same the only way they differ is in the position of the functional group . |
| 8 | They 're the same molecular formula the only way they differ is in the way the basic chain is structured . |
| 9 | Where they differ is in their assessment of the nature , extent and source of Bolshevik influence . |
| 10 | Where they differ is in the unique properties of their cell membranes , for the nerve cell membrane is excitable — which means that in response to a signal , such as a small local fluctuation in ion concentration across the membrane , it can rapidly become permeable to the ions outside it . |
| 11 | A great many assessment systems are competitive in that the extrinsic rewards they offer are in short supply and each student who wants them is asked to demonstrate that he or she is more deserving than others , or others are less deserving . |
| 12 | The community has decided , that is , to delegate to judges the power to decide lawsuits in whatever way they think is in the best interests of the community as a whole and to invent working as-if theories of legal rights , including theories of legislation and precedent , with that purpose in mind . |
| 13 | ‘ The British people will say to themselves : ‘ Well here 's a government that 's got a majority of 100 , they 've been in office for 10 years , they 've had all these opportunities , and at the end of 10 years all they can think of to do is to make individual attacks on the Leader of the Opposition . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ They 've been in the night and dug it up ! ’ |
| 15 | They represent enemy ships sunk by torpedoes , and the crossed guns on the left means they 've been in a surface action — that 'd be when they got the German destroyer — and the dagger below is a special operation . ’ |
| 16 | There must be armies of males squirming uncomfortably at the breakfast table , feeling they 've been in a similar movie . |
| 17 | ‘ Wigan will certainly know they 've been in a game . |
| 18 | MEGADETH have revealed they 've been in group therapy for the past three years . |
| 19 | Maurice Hope held a similar view , though he favoured social rather than genetic factors : ‘ Black people are natural fighters ; they 've been fighting for survival and they 've been in that condition all their lives . |
| 20 | is , is , in London and we deal with the British Section which is are the particular bits , but the prisoners have to be vatted and looked at and found by the International Secretaires , then they 're passed on to British Section who pass them on to us and a great deal of research goes into making sure that they really are truly prisoners of conscience , that they 've been in prison for some er possibly because of their belief or religion or their race erm and they 've not taken or advocated violence not taken part in or advocated violence and then , then they are full prisoners of conscience erm we maybe allocated them . |
| 21 | Okay and finally erm are London boroughs erm yeah blank blank , eighty six election and the next London borough elections will be in nineteen ninety four so they 've been in nineteen eighty six , nineteen ninety and nineteen , they will next be in nineteen ninety four . |
| 22 | The way we see it , they both did a runner and they 've been in hiding ever since . ’ |
| 23 | In that netherworld state , while they 've been in that state of absorption . ’ |
| 24 | You will be tested for rubella immunity and until you know you are definitely immune , you should avoid seeing anyone who thinks they 've been in contact with the disease . |
| 25 | They 've been in water but the bullet fits tightly in the cartridge case , and they do n't seem to have been in water long enough for much water to have got in to affect the charge . |
| 26 | They 've been in touch with the undertaker and when I left they were arguing about the funeral . ’ |
| 27 | But some times when I when people tell me that they 've been in a certain environment . |
| 28 | Erm is one they 've been in a very similar position to in so much as competition 's forced them to cost down dramatically I mean |
| 29 | The cardboard mostly rotted away , but they 've been in the ground for no more than 20 years and the bomb experts say they 're not military . |
| 30 | They 've been in England for less than 12 hours but Janos Bunta and his Romanian friends are already up to their elbows in flour and pastry . |