Example sentences of "they [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is simply that interest rates have not been an important part of their own calculations of credit costliness ( nor , indeed , have they been at all prominent in credit advertising ) . |
| 2 | They been at it , have they been at it again ? |
| 3 | They been at it , have they been at it again ? |
| 4 | Had they been on deposit in US domestic banks , then naturally such a course of action would be open to them . |
| 5 | How long have they been on you ? |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | How long had they been in Orkney ? |
| 8 | How long have they been in business ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The USSR , as before , remained ready to further its own interests wherever it could , and those interests were not always in agreement with those of Western governments — nor had they been in tsarist times . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Curtseying was not a country custom , and besides , even had they been in town , she was n't sure she should to one of her brother 's friends , whom she 'd known since he was a boy . |
| 13 | Had they been in vogue in 1951 , the words perestroika and glasnost might have been used by observers . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | Have they been in the fridge ? |
| 16 | Well they been in there since two o'clock . |
| 17 | Have they been in there ? |
| 18 | How long have they been in here for Paul ? |
| 19 | How long does you happen to have in his family , how long have they been in the collection ? |
| 20 | It 's J 's birthday on April 2nd & they are having a party ( at last ! ) so I 'll catch up on the news then — they are v. seldom at Gayfield St these days , so I never see them . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It is an offence for companies to recruit a non-disabled worker when they are below the quota . |
| 23 | Even when they are off the sledges the dogs are kept apart . |
| 24 | Hounds such as the Bassett can be particularly stubborn , especially about returning once they are off the leash . |
| 25 | ‘ We always end up losing some of the group during the factory tour because they are off chatting to old friends . ’ |
| 26 | This problem is by no means insoluble , but present policies , directed as they are toward economies of scale through individual ownership are , at best , irrelevant to such farmers . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Drivers will simply blow into a cigarette-sized tube and if chemical crystals inside turn blue it shows that they are over the limit . |