Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The view through the small rear mirror is rather limited , as Jill Stanton has mentioned before , and the manual wing mirrors are so stiff that trying to fine-tune them is like trying to thread a needle wearing boxing gloves . |
| 2 | ‘ Do you think they 're going to have a sign out , telling us which side they 're on ? ’ |
| 3 | On one side they are at full height . |
| 4 | Turkey , incidentally , just for pig-iron and incorrigible spite , look like ten times the side they were at Lansdowne , just when we need them to be sullen , depressed , and cruising for a bruising . |
| 5 | Two er one , if it 's a two bedroom they 're into the caravan outside . |
| 6 | Four teenagers suffered minor injuries after the car they were in crashed through a fence near Front Street , Blyth , Northumberland . |
| 7 | Previous application of this method ( viz. a 1-stage Delphi with interactive feedback ) earlier in this research programme has shown that many employers embarking often for the first time on strategic employment policy-making require some means of obtaining confirmation they are on the right lines . |
| 8 | It 's for the people who are n't happy with the weight they 're at , or if it 's unhealthy — if it 's endangering your health and you have to do something about it ; if you 've been told by your doctor to lose weight . |
| 9 | Certainly one thing is noticeable Leicester have n't er quite dropped back into the gear they were in in the first half Ron have they ? |
| 10 | " In Several parts of the Country , they have already established the Herring Gauge Barril filled to the Brim as a proper measure by which Putatoes aught to be bought and sold , and that four fulls of the said Barril shou 'd constitute the Boll , but that in other quarters of the Countrey they are in use to Buy and Sell Putatoes by a Creel measure which is very uncertain . |
| 11 | Although in terms of expense they are of course more expensive , and therefore this also erm is something one , one has to consider . |
| 12 | With a lurch they are above the trees and climbing steeply , Paul pressed back into his seat . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In practice they are at daggers drawn as the furore over Tom Clarke 's pronouncements on the subject this week amply illustrates . |
| 15 | No wonder they were in a tizz in Brighton . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Then at work they are at the whim of the boss . |
| 18 | Some respondents to FRED 1 were concerned about exceptional items and the prominence they were to be given . |
| 19 | some handsome star and not the bloke they 're with . |
| 20 | There must be a strong presumption that at bottom they are of this same nature , despite an occasional argument to the contrary ( Vendler , 1962 ) , since effects are also causes . |
| 21 | ‘ It is important that your bank knows everything about your business so that if you have to go to them for help they are in the best position to five assistance . |
| 22 | It 's sunny , and the clouds have form and shape , and underneath or away from the sun they are in shadow , greys and even a touch of brown . |
| 23 | Some of them are given diplomas for doing this , so they can then prove how expert they are in disability matters . |
| 24 | 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 … |
| 25 | Instead of fights outside the Market Bar they are outside MacDonald 's and the protagonists are years younger . |
| 26 | ‘ Funny mood they 're in ’ Delia Sutherland said as they drove towards Home Dairy . |
| 27 | But whatever their fate they are on course for the most successful season in their history . |
| 28 | The Russian nobility were much less formidable than their counterparts elsewhere , they had not yet begun to export grain , and for the great landowners serfdom was not an unmitigated blessing : as long as there was still peasant mobility they were in a position to attract labour away from the estates of their weaker rivals . |
| 29 | Indeed , publishers told PEN they were under pressure from schools , libraries and local authorities to be politically correct . |
| 30 | 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 . |