Example sentences of "they be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the two promised divisions , which , had they been available at the right moment , would almost certainly have presented Verdun to the Germans , were still firmly held at Metz , two day 's march away . |
| 2 | Have they been downtrodden for thousands of years or was it more recent ? |
| 3 | None of the patients interviews said they would have taken paracetamol had they been aware of this danger . |
| 4 | It had immediately struck him , of course , that the latter , had they been aware of it , would have strongly resented the interference of spiritual sanitary workers . |
| 5 | The politicians ' disapproval would have been sharper still had they been aware of plans already taking shape in the army to launch an actual invasion of mainland France if the regime refused to recall de Gaulle to power . |
| 6 | how much prior formal review activity had they been accustomed to and how threatened had they felt ; |
| 7 | First the drummers come on — I may say that no women are allowed to take part in this ritual and the ladies here will perhaps agree with me that they are fortunate in that omission . |
| 8 | People recovering from addictive disease are not special and different from other people ( although they are fortunate in having a positive programme by which to live ) but they are now able to take their place alongside others . |
| 9 | They are distinct from the cell 's main store of DNA , the bacterial chromosome , yet still multiply during cell growth . |
| 10 | In the ommatidia they occur as proteinaceous granules in the pigment cells surrounding the crystalline cone and retinulae ; they are distinct from and sometimes masked by the ommochrome pigments that may also be present . |
| 11 | Yet they are distinct from general art history and criticism in their conscious introduction , if in varying ways , of active social concepts as necessary elements of description and analysis . |
| 12 | They are distinct from the longer stories not only in terms of content , but in graphology also : most are italicised , which separates them visually from the other material . |
| 13 | It is true that human beings share some things in common with other species , such as sexual reproduction , but they are distinct in some major ways , above all in their capacity for symbolic communication , as distinct from a sign system of communication used by some other species . |
| 14 | This article deals specifically with these paints , not primers or undercoats , unless they are necessary for the satisfactory application of the special top coat . |
| 15 | Questions relating to an offence may not be put to a person after he has been charged with that offence , or informed that he may be prosecuted for it , unless they are necessary for the purpose of preventing or minimising harm or loss to some other person or to the public or for clearing up an ambiguity in a previous answer or statement , or where it is in the interests of justice that the person should have put to him and have an opportunity to comment on information concerning the offence which has come to light since he was charged or informed that he might be prosecuted . |
| 16 | In other words , they 're not , they 're not extras er in , in the absolute sense , they are necessary for that particular scheme , but they may be things which less erm experienced consultants might omit . |
| 17 | The United States Constitution is considered by Americans to embody the principles of a higher law , to constitute " in fact imperfect man 's most perfect rendering of what Blackstone saluted as " the eternal immutable laws of good and evil , to which the creator himself in all his dispensations conforms : and which he has enabled human reason to discover , so far as they are necessary for the conduct of human actions . " |
| 18 | Similarly , the punctuation of changes of state , such as window frames , doorways , bearings and edging strips are as expressive in painting and music as they are necessary in architecture and mechanics . |
| 19 | They are necessary in cases where the plaintiff 's symptoms or motivation are in issue . |
| 20 | It is easy to perceive that so long as this group of entrepreneurs is active in the market , and so long as they are alert to the changing prices their own activity brings about , the market process can proceed in an entirely normal fashion . |
| 21 | They are tolerant in their bridle adjustment ( as distinct from the sophisticated 110 degree , swept-delta steerables to be found in Chapter Eight ) , and the newcomer is unlikely ever to require to alter the settings of the rings on the bridle legs . |
| 22 | For many years they were regarded as colonial coelenterates , but it is now certain that they are unrelated to the jellyfish and their allies , and in fact are distant cousins to a small group of tube-dwelling organisms with little fossil record , which belong to the minor phylum Hemichordata . |
| 23 | High Wycombe and Eccles could be earlier than the latter , as they are datable to before c. 175 A.D. , whereas it could be of the third century . |
| 24 | The implication is that if college graduates are relatively weak on inferred ability , they should ensure that they are strong on relevant competence . |
| 25 | Or , to put it in another way , there must be at least two non-synonymous descriptive phrases of which it can be said both that they are co-extensive in respect of the given non-meaning and characterise this non-meaning in an essential way . |
| 26 | ‘ They are asleep in their beds , Aunt , ’ he said . |
| 27 | In this art they are skilful to perfection … |
| 28 | Associative feminist psychologies make unstable , continually changing liaisons with these social objects ; and so they are associative in two senses . |
| 29 | The worst to paint are insecure people , either outwardly or inwardly , ‘ you can feel that they are uncomfortable with themselves ’ . |
| 30 | Hurdles of metal , split oak , or wattle are very useful for quick repairs to a hedge or wall or to fold a few sheep on rape or turnips ( although they are laborious for the latter . |