Example sentences of "[prep] they [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything about them is traditional : bluesy licks , Whitfield Crane 's sneering vocals , lyrics about being the devil , a bum , or a mixed-up kid . |
| 2 | Everything about them is significant . |
| 3 | LA 's L7 are natural performers ; nothing about them is fake , so when Donita rocks out and grapples with her ‘ axe ’ during ‘ Wargasm ’ it does n't look misplaced or ludicrous . |
| 4 | I did n't solve them but thinking about them was good exercise . |
| 5 | There were still a great many people about in the outer ward , but once they had passed through the archway to the inner ward the night world about them was quiet , troubled by only a few echoing footsteps . |
| 6 | Tock grumbled something about them being useful if you were lost , then fell silent . |
| 7 | About them being late and everything else . |
| 8 | ‘ You were right about them being dead , ’ Laura said after a while . |
| 9 | Luckily in all three of the situations outlined above , the carers have eventually discovered that support for them is available and this has made a great deal of difference to their lives . |
| 10 | The City Technology Colleges divert valuable resources of staff and equipment away from other schools where the need for them is great and they also cream off some of the more able pupils . |
| 11 | Our love for them is boundless , our optimism inexhaustible . |
| 12 | There are a number of , sort of a dictionary of useful phrases , I mean you actually used one or two just now , and one of the things that we suggest is that people when they 're not under the pressure of being in the studio , which after all for them is alien territory , that they should actually have one or two of these useful phrases which do cover a , a multitude of embarrassing situations , if you want to put it that away . |
| 13 | Make sure that the story you have for them is interesting and if it is merely constituency information , explain that you are providing it for background briefing and that you are not expecting them to publish it . |
| 14 | In the terms discussed in Chapter 2 during our reinterpretation of the Chicago School , these groups convert certain districts in what for them are front regions . |
| 15 | Prison visits are too short and the facilities available for them are inadequate . |
| 16 | As with everything else , being aware of the possibilities and preparing for them are essential . |
| 17 | Magnetic storms occurring close to solar maximum are often isolated events because the solar disturbances responsible for them are intense but shortlived . |
| 18 | Reserved offer combinations which prove irrelevant , for the opposing reasons that applications for them are abundant or virtually non-existent , are dispensed with . |
| 19 | Leftists and Republicans were therefore entitled to feel that whether the right as a whole , or merely one element of it , achieved power , the consequences for them were likely to be more or less equally unpleasant . |
| 20 | You see , Neil 's already put his side about , we worked er how can you hold us responsible for them being late in when |
| 21 | The beauty of these pieces often speaks for itself , and is the main reason for them being collectable . |
| 22 | One beauty of it is now with Yellow Pages for them being able to pay things monthly , they 're used to giving signing contracts for things like that . |
| 23 | The first sound is initial , the last the final : anything between them is medial . |
| 24 | But the competition which has always existed between them is undeniable . |
| 25 | Indeed , although Hegel does not admit quite what I am now suggesting , he effectively concedes that , given the difference between the sexes , unity between them is impossible . |
| 26 | It is now a caring and loving one , in which they both feel free to be themselves , and the trust between them is absolute . |
| 27 | If both husband and wife are domiciled in the United Kingdom , any transfer of assets between them is exempt from any charge to inheritance tax ( Inheritance Tax Act 1984 , s18(1) formerly the Capital Transfer Tax Act 1984 ) . |
| 28 | Being without these tensions , pentatonic tones are therefore more bland , movement between them is free , and there is not such a strong feeling of the need for resolution as in the diatonic system . |
| 29 | The Merger Regulation indicates in its recitals that if the parties ' combined market share does not exceed 25 per cent in the EC or in a substantial part of it a merger between them is unlikely to impede effective competition . |
| 30 | Much more is said about ‘ substances ’ and ‘ modes ’ , and the distinction between them is important in Locke ‘ s theory of knowledge . |