Example sentences of "they [am/are] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When the chief comes into court , the two of them are on nodding terms . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We always end up losing some of the group during the factory tour because they are off chatting to old friends . ’ |
| 3 | We made it clear that in our views , the Western capitalist countries and their allies are not so much concerned over the ‘ liberation of Kuwait ’ as they are over maintaining their monopoly over the oil and money of the Arab Gulf countries . |
| 4 | Others including resistance to various diseases are inherited weakly , and the question is whether they are worth including in a breeding programme or not ? |
| 5 | They are worth bearing in mind as at least a partial explanation of some aspects of credit use , so as to avoid the risk of misinterpreting those aspects as a purely a matter of individual consumer choice . |
| 6 | If you have extra cards , that is ones other than those in your basic pack , you 'll want to know how to decide if they are worth trying with tuck and slip , but first let's look at how you knit tuck and slip and how the fabric is actually formed . |
| 7 | Television may be much more popular than radio , but radio plays still deserve their place amongst the airwaves , and they are worth listening to . |
| 8 | However , rather than getting upset about this it spurs her on to try harder to show that they are worth watching . |
| 9 | They are worth seeking out , even though they are not spectacular unless observed with an adequate telescope . |
| 10 | Although they are rarer fossils , some of them are of such interest that they are worth mentioning here . |
| 11 | They are worth mentioning here only because they are interesting . |
| 12 | In so far as some of these considerations relate specifically to the environment of the unit , they are worth mentioning here . |
| 13 | This book seems to be based on the techniques I have long suspected some producers use to keep a discussion going for the full length of a programme whether there is anything in it or not , to keep up the emotional temperature even about unexciting things , and to emit statements which are just distorted enough to get people objecting , whether they are worth objecting to or not . |
| 14 | But they are worth looking at in that they give an understanding of royal taste in the 16 and 17C , and indeed their founder , Rudolf II , is considered to be one of the greatest European patrons of the arts ( see p. 9 ) . |
| 15 | None the less , they are worth considering , because they help us to understand both the origin and the artificiality of feudalism . |
| 16 | Those conditions would appear to be obvious but they are worth stating : |
| 17 | Peculiars are by definition uncommon but they are worth searching for and if present in a case would strongly favour any remedies showing that same symptom . |
| 18 | The drawbacks to class displays do exist , but they are not insurmountable if you decide that they are worth overcoming . |
| 19 | The Avent bottles for it are much more expensive than others , about £6 each , but I think they are worth having . |
| 20 | The flavour of these mushrooms is superb and , although they are expensive , they are worth treating yourself to for a special occasion . |
| 21 | They are about recognising the reality of the problem and taking all reasonable steps to ensure that the well-being of both staff and clients is not unnecessarily put at risk in having to deal with such situations . |
| 22 | Meals are not just about eating , they are about talking and not wishing to hurry into another room for coffee . |
| 23 | All shades of opinion are generally represented — some well beyond the pale , others so ‘ colourful ’ that they are beyond inflicting on the magazine 's readers . |
| 24 | They are considering setting up an organisation called Eumetsat to plan three new satellites that will cost £250 million over eight years . |
| 25 | Meanwhile the family 's solicitor says they are considering seeking compensation from Boots . |
| 26 | Lewis 's family lawyer says they are considering suing for compensation . |
| 27 | They often think it might demonstrate to their parents how dissatisfied they are without having to talk about it and explain . |
| 28 | Homelessness has been on the increase for a long time and Government initiatives , based as they are on encouraging the private sector to fill the gap left by local authorities , have been essentially piecemeal and fragmentary . |
| 29 | Richards , a 33-year-old Highgate estate agent , faces the former All Black captain in a Hertfordshire field where mighty Northampton know they are on hiding to nothing . |
| 30 | However , all of the developments under way — involving both capital and revenue expenditure — share three particular characteristics : they are evolutionary , they are on going and they are incomplete . |