Example sentences of "[prep] they [be] [vb pp] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the remainder of the known fortified sites are plotted on a map ( fig. 7.1 ) most of them are seen to be distributed along three routes : |
| 2 | For instance , discharges frequently run from septic tanks in the grounds of country cottages , many of whose occupants are old people who have the sympathies of field men , since most of them are believed to be badly off . |
| 3 | Although the effects of loss vary from one individual to another , on the whole it seems that men tend to fare a little better in bereavement than women , and fewer of them are found to be in need of psychiatric treatment for chronic grief and depression . |
| 4 | Some of them are held to be responsible for relaxation phenomena at low temperatures while folds are of great importance in the crystallization of polymers . |
| 5 | This hypothesis is supported by the fact that most plant families that produce bird-dispersed seeds are of very wide distribution and that several of them are held to be primitive , e.g. Annonaceae , Lauraceae , while several genera conspicuous in this trait are found in both tropical America and Australasia . |
| 6 | Then bundle up your husband and boyfriend and send him to the woman whose name appears at the top of the list , you will receive 16,337 men — and one of them is bound to be a hell of a lot better than the one you already have . |
| 7 | Some of them were said to be at least a hundred years old . |
| 8 | All but two of them were found to be leading personal lives that were full of achievement . |
| 9 | One of them was sentenced to be burned alive , and the other hanged , punishments dictated , apparently , not by their sexuality as such but their transvestism and use of the dildo — at once , I want to suggest , appropriations of masculinity , inversions of it , and substitutions for it . |
| 10 | Moreover one of them was bound to be reporting back to the Questore , and since there was no way of finding out which he would have to keep them all busy if he was to do what Bartocci had asked . |
| 11 | Although several differences in pretreatment characteristics of responders versus non-responders were observed , none of them was found to be significant . |
| 12 | When the first of them was brought to be executed , he placed his neck on the block and the executioner pulled the handle to release the blade . |
| 13 | But the features that make Mr President sexy do n't work the same trick when the man behind them is thought to be a vacuum cleaner salesman from Bolton . |
| 14 | Somebody in the blackness around them was bound to be listening . |