Example sentences of "[verb] they [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Most of the animals that live along the hedgerows unfortunately only come out at night and the best way to see them is in the light of a car 's headlamp . |
2 | We 'd add that the ‘ only ’ way to see them is from an open top carriage pulled snow-white horses — who said romance was dead ? |
3 | So , on some sites you might say , no , I , well I can control the labour costs and I can control the er , plant usage , but I do n't buy the materials myself the only way I can affect them is by altering the wastage . |
4 | Secondaries can usually be identified because they cluster around the larger primary , often forming chains and other small groups , and because the impacts producing them are at low angles and low speeds and so the craters are usually elongated . |
5 | A team led by Basil Rose used a cloud chamber to measure the momentum of the neutrons coming from Zeta 's plasma , the measurements which they made in the spring of 1958 , showed that the fusion reactions producing them were between nuclei with on average a net directed momentum . |
6 | The Town Boys in a way are an enigma , and how one joins them is by no means easy to discover . |
7 | One way of explaining them is by reference to institutional features of these societies . |
8 | The most extreme way of protecting them is for the mother to carry them around within her own body . |
9 | ‘ The easiest way to catch them is with a three-pronged spear , but do n't tell that to fishermen . ’ |
10 | I suppose every one has to earn their keep , and the way to catch them is by using the old , traditional Scottish fishing method of trolling . |
11 | Those horses , all right , I 'm not denying they 're in bad condition , but I did choose 'em . |
12 | Out on the fields , the flocks of golden plover begin to show an increasing number of black-fronted birds as they moult , and the extent of these markings suggest they are of more northerly origin . |
13 | But the haemorrhage of people since travel was eased in the past few years , and the mass exodus of the past weeks suggest they are in a minority . |
14 | ‘ They must know they 're in the frame otherwise why the decoy ? ’ |
15 | If one says that they are both in the second row you will know they are on the two n's of nomen . |
16 | ‘ They are all blonde and are all about the same size and although none of them are identical you would know they are from the same family . |
17 | But they did not know they were to be presented with tickets to whisk two people off to Claridge 's . |
18 | ‘ We do not definitely know they were on the flight but it is very unlikely they were not , ’ said Mr Beswick . |
19 | I did n't know they were after Hasan . |
20 | If I really believed then I would know they were in heaven , in eternal life , and I should be so glad about that . |
21 | How did you know they were in the street , did they have a call ? |
22 | I expect they 're among the most important people in the country . |
23 | oh I expect they are on , on the Council |
24 | Of course , it was useful to both Romania and China to let Moscow know how deeply involved they were with the Americans , because such knowledge could deter Moscow from interfering in their internal affairs . |
25 | The views of the teachers tended to be directly related to how involved they were in managing a department and thus how involved they were in spending capitation . |
26 | The views of the teachers tended to be directly related to how involved they were in managing a department and thus how involved they were in spending capitation . |
27 | Where written records do survive they are as a rule woefully incomplete , and for prehistoric communities they are by definition completely absent . |
28 | When she came to with a start she found they were in the car park below the ruins of the castle in Haverfordwest . |
29 | ‘ I do think visitors to this country like to know they 're in Scotland , especially in a large hotel like the Sheraton where you could be anywhere . ’ |
30 | Fans of the Good Morning programme who saw a holiday report on Amsterdam , presented by on May 5 , may be surprised to know they were in fact watching a colleague . |