Example sentences of "[noun sg] they be [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one side they are at full height . |
| 2 | Secondly , the torts considered in this chapter may also come into question in cases of alleged unlawful competition between traders , but in practice they are of little significance because of the common law 's refusal to adopt any principle of ‘ fair competition ’ other than the prohibition of obviously unlawful acts like torts and crimes and breaches of contract . |
| 3 | And I feel sorry for the officers ' families who have to know that every time they go to work they 're in this sort of danger . |
| 4 | According to Sotheby 's expert they were of different dates … of different styles , by different hands , the sort of set anyone could put together at any time … |
| 5 | As a measure of the characteristics of the sediment they are of limited value , but as a method of characterizing the central segment of a curve the Trask Sorting coefficient or its equivalent , the phi Quartile Deviation may have some value . |
| 6 | She saw him cross impetuously to his wife , lift her bodily by the waist , and kiss her heartily ; and she knew that before the latch clashed into place they were in each other 's arms . |
| 7 | On August 12 a clear sky gave the French duo their chance , and by the following evening they were at 6900 metres , having climbed 1200 metres of mixed ground reminiscent of the north face of Les Courtes in the Chamonix Alps . |
| 8 | For the sake of clarity the ascending-node longitudes have all been set equal to each other , though within each group they are in any case much the same . |
| 9 | The room they were in stretched back and back — Into the hillside , thought Fenella — and far above them . |
| 10 | PHILIP HUNT finds that by any name they are among easier inverts to keep . |
| 11 | Their communities were generally established in remote locations far from possible government interference , so on the whole they were to one side of the main process of ingesting Siberia into the Russian state . |
| 12 | ‘ But there is no evidence they were by Bosnian Serb forces . ’ |
| 13 | see till Sunday night they 're on that bus apart from the crossing |
| 14 | Of course they are for internal consideration only , but because there is the intention of some discussion at June CED Conference on Government Joint Funding and on Resource Sharing , I thought these two papers might profitably be circulated as background material . |
| 15 | No policemen had been sent to intercept Adam , unless of course they were in plain clothes — those two that looked like businessmen , for instance . |
| 16 | Most castles , it is true , were to be reduced to the state they were in fifteen days before the outbreak of war ; but others were to be razed to the ground . |
| 17 | Other ‘ domatia ’ are more substantial structures and are known from over 400 species ( half in America , fewest in Africa ) in over 30 genera of trees and lianes : in A cacia they are in stipular thorns but in the rest they are in the stems , where the stems are sometimes swollen as in some species of Clerodendrum ( Verbenaceae ) . |
| 18 | What a fantastically literate lot they are in Tory authorities . |
| 19 | Both young men then glanced at each other , clamming up in some embarrassment as they recalled that the fortune they were at this moment vying for had been lost by Benedict Beckenham , for the story of the will was naturally common knowledge among his intimates . |
| 20 | The defamiliarizing principle in art has exactly the same effect on its material ‘ ingredients ’ : it subordinates and transforms the way they are in non-literary circumstances . |
| 21 | unless you were going with a group of friends cos you do n't , you would n't meet anyone , you would , s seriously they were , last year they were like twelve years old . |
| 22 | It 's crazy , it 's crazy , if only people again 'd sit back and look at it and see exactly what 's happening , rather than saying it serves them right , they should n't of done this , they should n't of got themselves into that position they 're in that position |
| 23 | With the club now languishing at the bottom of the table they were in desperate need of a football visionary , a new footballing messiah . |
| 24 | It followed , too , from the assumptions that the British made about the Masai 's conservatism , it appearing self-evident to them that because the Masai were so conspicuously uninterested in Western civilization they were in all respects content with the status quo ; so closely were Westernization and agitation linked in the administrative mind . |
| 25 | At the sampling stage they are for practical reasons equally important , for it is hard to see how investigators could proceed without some recourse to demographic categories such as class , sex , or ethnicity . |