Example sentences of "they [be] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ England 's batting , fielding and — apart from Emburey and Edmonds — their bowling proclaimed the lack of practice and resolve on a slow pitch which , had they been in the right frame of mind , would have given them an even chance of levelling the series , ’ asserted Wisden . |
| 2 | In America , with the Harveys , it somehow had not mattered ; nor had they been in the least concerned about how he had been raised , judging him for what he was now . |
| 3 | These arrangements would not have differed had they been in the Fens , or watching Scandinavia 's hot springs : Johnson went to inspect the landscape he described : Boswell took his landscape , the lumpy Dr Johnson , with him . |
| 4 | prior to the Daily Telegraph article in January nineteen eighty eight , had or or had they been in the habit of spending large amounts of money on national publicity ? |
| 5 | Have they been in the fridge ? |
| 6 | How long does you happen to have in his family , how long have they been in the collection ? |
| 7 | In a local area , Tit for Tat individuals may meet each other often enough to prosper from mutual cooperation , even though calculations that take into account only the global frequency in the total population might suggest that they are below the ‘ knife-edge ’ critical frequency . |
| 8 | It is an offence for companies to recruit a non-disabled worker when they are below the quota . |
| 9 | Even when they are off the sledges the dogs are kept apart . |
| 10 | Hounds such as the Bassett can be particularly stubborn , especially about returning once they are off the leash . |
| 11 | Moreover , older workers lose the right to be protected from unfair dismissal if they are over the ‘ upper age limit ’ ( this may be 65 or it may be whatever is the ‘ normal retiring age ’ for the job the individual holds ) . |
| 12 | A DIY breathalyser will soon be able to tell drivers if they are over the limit — but police say it ca n't be trusted . |
| 13 | Drivers will simply blow into a cigarette-sized tube and if chemical crystals inside turn blue it shows that they are over the limit . |
| 14 | And the local authorities also we have government policy again we have the situation that Wage Councils which have agreed increases for our members within the prison service , do n't know whether they 'll be allowed to implement them because they are over the one and a half percent . |
| 15 | They are between the hills and the Forth and are sparing nothing in Lothian , from the east coast to Dunedin . |
| 16 | Marginal implies that squatters are outside the system , rather than a part of it and , therefore , that they are outside the class structure . |
| 17 | We are not interested in them as such ( they are outside the boundary of the investigation ) , but we are interested in what they give . |
| 18 | I 'm saying as a matter of fact they are outside the equation , and that 's what 's wrong , because they 're certainly not upper class , they 're not middle class , but nor are they working class , are they ? |
| 19 | The Purchaser will not be happy if the Business consists of all the wrong kinds of assets ( peas instead of beans ) even if they are worth the same as the price paid . |
| 20 | Kevin Burke , chairman of the cooperative , said : ‘ The message to everyone tempted to follow our example must be that if the final homes are worth your time and trouble , they are worth the wait . |
| 21 | The other aspect is of course catering facilities here on a Saturday may not be the same as what they are during the week . |
| 22 | ‘ Nick , they are richer than your wettest dreams , and like all the very rich they think they are above the law . ’ |
| 23 | Sir John Donaldson , president of the NIRC , had said in June : ‘ By their conduct these men are saying they are above the rule of law . |
| 24 | With a lurch they are above the trees and climbing steeply , Paul pressed back into his seat . |
| 25 | They are about the lives of women in Bengal . |
| 26 | They do not even reflect the cognitive side of learning ; they are about the ability to recall and express accurately in a pressurised situation . |
| 27 | Here again policy and practice in the inner city are as much about the way we chose to conceptualise social problems as they are about the experiences of inner city communities themselves . |
| 28 | While a formal prospectus is normally issued for each degree course , such statements vary considerably in the amount of detail they give , and how explicit they are about the aims of the course . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , the general public is not yet as aware of these technical achievements as they are about the waste they dispose of in their dustbins each week . |
| 30 | ‘ They are about the same age and build , a man and a woman , but beyond that — Some inflammable substance had been poured on them , almost certainly petrol . ’ |