Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point about them is that , uniquely in the Province , they are both Unionist and resolutely non-sectarian . |
| 2 | One of the nice things about them is that they are situated in one of the quieter areas between Palma Nova and Magalluf , but it is only a short walk to the beaches and nightlife of both resorts . |
| 3 | There are good habits and bad habits but the main point about them is that they are all behaviour patterns which have been so thoroughly learned that they are done automatically without any conscious effort . |
| 4 | The most important thing to know about them is that they work synergistically with minerals : that is they enhance each other , adding up to more than the individual sum of their parts . |
| 5 | First thing to be said about them is that they 're all proteins covering a very wide range of molecular weights between three and three hundred kilobocals three thousand to three hundred thousand bocals . |
| 6 | Perhaps the most important thing to be remarked about them is that their numbers are very small and that almost all of them are men . |
| 7 | What is interesting about them is that while the development corporations acquired powers that gave them a great deal of autonomy within their own territories , there is today a variety of questions to be raised about the extent to which their ‘ success ’ was secured at the expense of other policies to which they ‘ ought ’ to have related . |
| 8 | What makes you nervous about them is that when you go to dinner with them , they pump up the chair . |
| 9 | I said , the vilest thing about them is that they can say that with a smile on their faces . |
| 10 | ‘ All I can say about them is that they were a real joy , ’ Bill Pertwee remembers . |
| 11 | The best thing about them is that you can personalise your gifts . |
| 12 | But the point about them was that they were comparable : different , but not necessarily inferior . |
| 13 | Yeah , what I like about , what I liked about them was that they were dead flat like , you know if you , imagine it a sweet the weight for a sweet were from say ten ounces to twenty kilos |
| 14 | They all they know about me is that my name is number twenty eight . |
| 15 | All they know about me is that I 'm number twenty eight . |
| 16 | One was that all people knew about me was that I was making trouble about the caravan site and a lot of them assumed that because it was at the bottom of my own garden , I must naturally be on ‘ their side ’ , whatever my political colour : that is , I wanted the site disbanded . |
| 17 | The principal complaint about me was that I was politically naive — a complaint again made by Michael Foot when I opposed his Bill to introduce a closed shop into journalism , which I describe later . |
| 18 | First , one thread running through them is that where A is the person who made the deposit but B is the person beneficially entitled to the deposit , B is the material person for the purposes of the protection scheme . |
| 19 | What can be said for them is that if the High Priest is acting in the fullest awareness at present attainable by his people , it is right for him to perform the sacrifice , just as it would be right for a Western onlooker to try to dissuade him ; he is not like a Nazi who has voluntarily shut himself off from the knowledge of biology and history and the personal sensitivity attained by the culture of the Weimar Republic . |
| 20 | Quite apart from anything else , the most likely immediate consequence for them is that they lose their jobs . ’ |
| 21 | The only agreement between them is that the birth of Jesus took place in the reign of Herod the Great , in the town of Bethlehem , and that Mary and Joseph were the names of his parents . |
| 22 | For convenience , one can be called ‘ market ’ society , and one ‘ status ’ society ; the crucial distinction between them is that in one privileges and obligations were increasingly distributed through competition in the market , and in the other by the operation of an acknowledged and traditional hierarchy of status . |
| 23 | An interesting difference between them is that Alford 's sails rotate anti-clockwise , which is usual and Burgh-le-Marsh 's rotate clockwise which is now unique . |
| 24 | The difference between them is that the first regress can only be stopped by certain ( = infallible ) beliefs , while the second insists merely on the existence of beliefs which are non-inferentially justified . |
| 25 | One important difference between them is that judges are not only legally trained but have invariably spent most of their working lives as practising barristers . |
| 26 | The fundamental difference between them is that the PC was designed as a text and number processing system and , despite upgrades , this is still the case while the Macintosh was designed to handle graphics in exactly the same way as text . |
| 27 | The basic legal distinction between them is that a share constitutes the holder a member of the company , whereas the debenture holder is a creditor of the company but not a member of it . |
| 28 | The difference between them was that Soutine slunk away ashamed when he was drunk whilst Modi displayed a theatrical abandon . |
| 29 | The difference between them was that Louis-Napoleon had no intention of sliding down again and in this determination he was aided , not for the last time , by the actions of his opponents . |
| 30 | The only difference between them was that the bloke on the allotment was probably more careful when he prepared the soil , gentler when he started digging . |