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 .
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