Example sentences of "they [be] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , in deciding , for example , whether to close down an unprofitable factory and make those working in it redundant , the directors are required to consider the effect of closure on the employees , but they are nevertheless under a duty to shut the factory if they believe this to be in the interests of the shareholders . |
| 2 | Matt black with tiny fawn flecks , they are just under a centimetre long . |
| 3 | Barring a calamity erm they will retain their option with us to continue on a two year deal , erm they perhaps , and I have to erm be honest about this , I think they are probably in a marketing sense , the most aggressive erm marketing company that I 've ever witnessed in terms of the style , the panache , the charisma that they have from within . |
| 4 | ‘ Why wait till they are away on a weekend ? ’ asked Mrs Cornforth . |
| 5 | Now they are away to a University of Wolverhampton team in the quarter finals.The Observer Moot is a national competition in which pairs of students representing law departments from universities in England , Wales and Northern Ireland argue points of law before a moot judge . |
| 6 | They are definately due a penalty now — that s one whole game without one . |
| 7 | They are home for a week or a month ; the rest of the time they are wandering about the world . |
| 8 | Bear a thought for the locals in the Sutton District Water Company area on the edge of London — they are still under a sprinkler ban . |
| 9 | Unlike Hobbes , Locke believes that people under an absolute authority are not really in civil society ; effectively they are still in a state of nature , for they may need to defend their rights against that authority . |
| 10 | A Merseyside based analysist said last night : ‘ Sadly they are still in a mess , they badly need to reduce debts of approaching £1bn even though we expect to see a improvement in profitability this year . ’ |
| 11 | But if they do n't — well , they are there as a record . |
| 12 | But you know having said that they are there for a reason and the reason they are there for is is if the group did n't have somebody to pull them back down again then they 'd might be going off in all different directions doing all these wonderful things and ending up nowhere because you have n't had somebody who pulls them back and says well hold on a minute . |
| 13 | In addition to the British Standards updating service which the Library and Information Service have been offering to their customers , they are now in a position to offer an updating service for standards from other National and International Standard Bodies . |
| 14 | They are now in a purpose built combined office and factory with room to expand . |
| 15 | Now er they are then in a situation perhaps often those people who are er less financially well off and sometimes in jobs which this particular might very well lose tomorrow erm their in a difficult situation as far as paying back mortgages is concerned . |
| 16 | Tonight they are together at a banquet aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia to mark the EC summit . |
| 17 | Like everything else on Barbados , life is very relaxed for the pair of them and they are never on a lead , but perhaps one of them should be tethered ! |
| 18 | On some farms , especially those without direct access to the seashore , a wider range of wild animals and birds were taken , although they are always in a minority . |
| 19 | The two tower alone in a dingy apartment but perhaps they are really inside a womb which has run short of amniotic fluids . |
| 20 | They are usually of a polyvinylchloride ( PVC ) material and available in pastel shades as well as imitation pebble . |
| 21 | So they 're just after a kind of random sample of Aston lecturers and as as the official random sample keep forgetting to put the er put the tape in the machine , or turn it on or whatever , it 's handed on to me so I 'm now wired up to an extraordinary degree . |
| 22 | But Mao 's not saying that , Mao 's , Mao 's saying they 're already in a revolution and we 're , we should |
| 23 | I think modelling and the movies are connected in that they 're both about a dream . |
| 24 | They 're both from a generation that used separate chassis and bodies ; the Healey has a boxed cruciform frame and steel and aluminium body , the Cobra an even simpler tubular ladder and that stunningly beautiful all-aluminium shell . |
| 25 | The travellers have now left their sites in Milton Keynes … but police are keeping track of their movements in case they 're soon in a popsition to make an arrest . |
| 26 | They 're definitely worth a listen . |
| 27 | Erm they 're the they 're there for a purpose and their size is there for a purpose in terms of er of the constrictions of the other road er sizing or whatever , and obviously huge vehicles who just ca n't possibly manoeuvre without going over . |
| 28 | ‘ I know speed limits can be boring and frustrating but they 're there for a reason , ’ added Ch Insp Williams . |
| 29 | Cos when they place these they 're always in a zone of danger , double white lines . |
| 30 | They would have been close at hand my Lord erm I just do n't know , it may be that , I think they were probably in a vehicle also close at hand ready to . |