Example sentences of "they be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why is John , and Ann and Paul and Teresa and all them been on that trussing line , and Merv . |
| 2 | The half of them are on my rent-roll anyway . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ When the chief comes into court , the two of them are on nodding terms . ’ |
| 4 | How many of them are on the drier river terraces ? |
| 5 | ‘ There are lots of priests at Manchester United , ’ he said in typical Docherty style , ‘ and some of them are on the board . ’ |
| 6 | Half of them are on it anyway . |
| 7 | Some of them are on display in the billiards room which we converted into a little museum , but others are stored in 2,000 indexed cardboard boxes . |
| 8 | More than 13,000 works were submitted this year and 1,800 of them are on show . |
| 9 | Some of them are on a bigger level . |
| 10 | As we have seen in Chapter 3 marginal farmers engaged in sheep and beef cattle rearing dominate the upland areas , and many of them are on a ‘ deferred death sentence ’ . |
| 11 | Scores of them are on show in a unique exhibition . |
| 12 | Nearly a hundred of them are on parade at Huntercombe , three miles from Wallingford . |
| 13 | But most of them are on television , the rugby league , then are they ? |
| 14 | aye but I mean some of them are on this Committee as well I mean Wendy and I for a start erm so that would be good right let's try and give that one a |
| 15 | Some of them are on N two , that erm , not necessarily , in fact the majority of the forms in the supporting guidelines on manuals are not versioned yet but they , we followed the advice of Roy there and we have listed them in each of the guidelines with a statement of erm , we 've just , I mean , a clear listing there of each form and when we actually go to introduce the next time , reprint , we will then put version codes on them . |
| 16 | It 's er in the report that we produced , most of the families are in fact single parent families , most of them are on Social Security benefits and have been on for considerable periods of time , but there are a number of people who are in employment or who have had periods of employment , but they are in low paid jobs , so when you 're talking about an income of one hundred pounds a week , with the sort of housing costs there are and other costs , then there simply is n't enough money to go round . |
| 17 | Had they been on deposit in US domestic banks , then naturally such a course of action would be open to them . |
| 18 | How long have they been on you ? |
| 19 | If you have particular skills like dancing , singing , fencing , acrobatics , or mime , be sure they are on this information sheet . |
| 20 | Without a convincing explanation and an insistence that the checks must be done properly , many students will become careless and slap dash when they are on their own and away from close supervision . |
| 21 | For example , the thought ‘ They are on my left ’ does not ‘ succeed ’ as a thought unless I can also have other thoughts such as ‘ If I move to my left they will move to my right ’ , ‘ They are substantial ’ ( that is , not a chimera ) , ‘ They are reachable/not reachable ’ , ‘ They are supported by something ’ , ‘ A large opaque object coming between me and them would render them invisible to me ’ … |
| 22 | Private ‘ lawn ’ graves can also be bought , which are cheaper , because they are on grass , and only a simple headstone can be erected . |
| 23 | And it 's not always easy to respect the author of The Maximus Poems , marred as they are on nearly every page by solecisms and gaucheries , by arbitrary coarseness in diction , punctuation , syntax , lineation . |
| 24 | ‘ They have to account for and justify what clothing they choose to wear , if they are on the Pill , their behaviour , and lifestyle . |
| 25 | They are on the bonnets of the jeeps , some are clinging precariously onto the sides as both vehicles speed away through the farmyard and out into the road . |
| 26 | They are on the side of this new engine for society-breaking . |
| 27 | Consider this : every time a writer/ performer sells an album , their royalty earns them around 60p ( assuming they are on 10 per cent ) . |
| 28 | The suspension settings are stiffer than they are on the Tercel , and with the option of Toyota 's TEMS electronic damping the spec sounds good . |
| 29 | This is speculative but they are on firmer ground when they point out that violent incidents were underreported both by referees in their correspondence with the FA and by the press . |
| 30 | An estimated 40,000 are held by it and other agencies , but since they are on paper , they fall outside the act . |