Example sentences of "they [am/are] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is an offence for companies to recruit a non-disabled worker when they are below the quota . |
| 4 | Even when they are off the sledges the dogs are kept apart . |
| 5 | Hounds such as the Bassett can be particularly stubborn , especially about returning once they are off the leash . |
| 6 | ‘ We always end up losing some of the group during the factory tour because they are off chatting to old friends . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Drivers will simply blow into a cigarette-sized tube and if chemical crystals inside turn blue it shows that they are over the limit . |
| 12 | Some plants like kitchen windows , especially if they are over a steamy sink , but always check first . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Hm , there see , they are over staffed , there 's no doubt about it , are n't they ? |
| 15 | Other battles are still fought today in Strathnaver , but they are between man and beast , rather than between man and his fellow creatures . |
| 16 | they are between jobs and are taking time to search for the most appropriate job with the highest wage ( search unemployment ) ; |
| 17 | Anyone can start giving blood as long as they are between 18 and 60 years old and in good health . |
| 18 | Clearly , the divisions among this group of short-term markets will be even less watertight than they are between these and the capital markets . |
| 19 | They are not well off , but they are not on the breadline and it is to our credit that we have a structure that supports people when they are between jobs . |
| 20 | Some are management development students , they are between twenty-eight and thirty-six years old and they stay here for fifteen weeks . |
| 21 | They are between the hills and the Forth and are sparing nothing in Lothian , from the east coast to Dunedin . |
| 22 | In fact , blood revenge and warfare are more intense between the constituent subgroupings than they are between them and other groups . |
| 23 | Yet its debates are beginning to acquire a democratic flavour , even though they are along confessional lines . |
| 24 | Marginal implies that squatters are outside the system , rather than a part of it and , therefore , that they are outside the class structure . |
| 25 | Instead of fights outside the Market Bar they are outside MacDonald 's and the protagonists are years younger . |
| 26 | Consequently many students who find themselves unable to accept this definition of themselves , who have difficulty in constructing an identity as ‘ physicists ’ or ‘ physical scientists ’ , find that they are outside of the department , that they are gradually less and less successful in getting to grips with the subject . |
| 27 | Overall , fourteen high intensity blockage sites ( mole fraction greater than 0.025 ) were identified in the regions probed from the UV5 and N25 promoters and twelve of these are summarised in Fig. 5 in the form of a bidirectional transcription footprint ( note that sites at 106 and 110 from the UV5 promoter are not represented on this summation since they are outside of the region probed by the N25 promoter ) . |
| 28 | We are not interested in them as such ( they are outside the boundary of the investigation ) , but we are interested in what they give . |
| 29 | 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 ? |
| 30 | The flavour of these mushrooms is superb and , although they are expensive , they are worth treating yourself to for a special occasion . |