Example sentences of "[prep] they [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything about them was in a state of collapse , because everything was cheap and badly constructed — the low-grade chunki-crete of the frameworks , the corroded metal that trimmed or braced . |
| 2 | The intense darkness that wrapped itself about them was like a black cloak that seemed to press upon them from all sides . |
| 3 | Soldiers , psychiatrists , and priests might on this basis be classified together as social controllers ; doctors and perhaps teachers should be classified as sustainers : the proper theoretical place for them is as the maintenance engineers of labour power ; playwrights , philosophers , accountants , sociologists , and lawyers must be classified together as conceptive ideologists . |
| 4 | It will be pleasing if the features of this sketch seem intuitively natural , as indeed we would claim , but justification for them is of course to be sought primarily in the observations of Chapters 2 to 10 and the way that these observations fit our assumptions about the bases of adjectival syntax . |
| 5 | The young Edward Fitzgerald , who became a sceptic , wrote to his friend Thackeray , ‘ I think the evidence for them is to be doubted . |
| 6 | Looking for them was in effect looking for Adam Boteler , who alone had been marked and recognised ; and Adam had orders to remain out of sight in Castell Coch until the second attempt was ready to be launched . |
| 7 | No I do n't know when they 're making decisions , the deadline for them being in was the end of the financial year , |
| 8 | However , despite the complications , each of these types of function has a relatively clear central core , and the distinction between them is of importance in several areas of administrative law . |
| 9 | The distinction between them is of considerable importance . |
| 10 | The most striking difference between them is in the amount they wrote — Beccaria so little and Bentham so much . |
| 11 | Again , the difference between them is in the language used to describe this process : for determinists manipulation is achieved by altering the factors that cause criminal behaviour ; for indeterminists it is achieved by making crime a relatively less attractive choice . |
| 12 | The differences between them are of the same order as the differences between modern Dutch and standard German : the Brut retains the OE case-inflexions and grammatical gender , whereas the Peterborough Chronicle , even though it is an earlier document , has lost most of these . |
| 13 | Assume for example that Ford and General Motors between them are in a position to buy up the Great Lakes and pollute them as much as they desire in order to reduce the costs against such an action . |
| 14 | The unifying factor between them was to be dynastic and personal . |
| 15 | Communication between them was at a minimum . |
| 16 | Each suspected the other ( each suspected ) of personal , biographical reasons for arguing the case that each , by and large , argued : and the difference between them was in itself odd , as in the great graph of time and place their paths had oddly crossed and oddly coincided . |
| 17 | One of them 's over a G |
| 18 | ‘ And do you know what each of them 's worth ? ’ |
| 19 | Well one of them 's on the second one , and one 's on |
| 20 | ‘ In case one of them 's from the kidnappers . ’ |
| 21 | Erm , unfortunately one of them 's in hospital at the moment . |
| 22 | I think one of them 's in a wheelchair . |
| 23 | ‘ A lot of them are about you . |
| 24 | Well they interest me because a lot of them are about , about the army and no , no , pretty far ranging , army , navy , but er , a lot of them about India er but he a , he certainly a criticized the er , the powers of being , you know , in the er , you know in the Boer War , the Great War and you know , and up to the thirties . |
| 25 | So , I mean , that 's not bad , but most of them are about one twenty for four , are n't they ? |
| 26 | Some of them are below the level you expect and below the standards we want to provide , ’ it says . |
| 27 | The company as a whole employs 3,800 people , but only 22 of them are at corporate headquarters in Boston . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've got seven games to play , and five of them are at Upton Park , ’ he said . |
| 29 | What is important is that ( a ) large numbers of people are involved ; ( b ) some of them are at a greater risk than the general population due to pre-existing cardiac or respiratory conditions and/or prolonged exposure in homes or at the workplace ; and ( c ) there is no ‘ safe ’ level of exposure to carcinogens . |
| 30 | Er some of them are at different se strength er |