Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plot of ‘ Great Expectations ’ is a very concentrated one , where everything and everyone are linked in the same plot . |
| 2 | The grass and reeds around me are flattened under the sudden , overnight fall of snow . |
| 3 | The most important union for farm workers in England is the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers ( NUAAW ) which has a membership of approximately 90000 , three-quarters of whom are employed on the land . |
| 4 | This story runs parallel with that of a bank robbery which is being planned for 14th July by a group of petty criminals , some of whom are employed on the building site for the new hotel . |
| 5 | In order to be accepted as a Safe-Buy approved supplier , firms must prove through their accounting system that they are financially sound ; they must prove they hold proper current insurances ; they must supply a list of recent customers , at lest 12 of whom are contacted by the Safe-Buy team and asked about their satisfaction with their recent home improvement ; finally , further checks are made on the company through the relevant consumer protection associations to ensure that the applicants reputation is untarnished . |
| 6 | In some cases , certainly , it is the result of a free choice on the part of individuals , most of whom are concentrated in the higher social classes where financial security , other than through earned income , is common . |
| 7 | This applies especially to the life of the more affluent , most of whom are concentrated in the advanced societies . |
| 8 | Two novels of the 1720s point the contrast in public attitudes to the American colonies of the two countries in an odd way : the Abbé Prévost 's Manon Lescaut and Daniel Defoe 's Moll Flanders are about prostitutes , both of whom are transported to the new world , but Manon dies from exposure in the arms of her faithful des Grieux after walking six miles from New Orleans , while Moll Flanders settles down with her fifth husband to reckon her net worth in cash and tobacco before returning from Virginia to London . |
| 9 | Hewlett Packard and Apricot , both of whom are going with the Aldus/Microsoft package , are rather more conservative and reckon perhaps 15 to 20 each . |
| 10 | Think of the many hours when the two of them are closeted in the den . |
| 11 | Paradoxically , the more moderate of them are insisting on the maintenance of their block votes because the party is still not fully democratic . |
| 12 | A great majority of them are looking for the theatre of books , and it is not there . |
| 13 | Little wonder , really , that right now the two of them are looking for the time of their life with someone of their own age . |
| 14 | Most of them are listed under the provisions of the Clean Air Act of 1990 , but restrictions imposed by the Act will not come into force until 1995 . |
| 15 | I mean some of them are built in the roof . |
| 16 | We have all inherited personal preferences in one shape or form by a variety of different roots ; some of those origins are clear , others of them are lost in the entanglements of time and circumstance . |
| 17 | Wind sites must be placed where the wind blows fairly constantly , most of them are situated around the coast . |
| 18 | He now shares his flat with sixty spiders and , as Erika Barnes reports , some of them are kept in the most unusual of places . |
| 19 | Descendants of the nomadic ‘ hordes ’ of Central Asia , many of them are related to the minority peoples of the Soviet Union , whom they closely resemble . |
| 20 | The hypotheses , formed after his observations , are many ; but most of them are related to the empirical findings of a long tradition and the world is spared a too individualistic interpretation of some of Nature 's more self-willed manifestations . |
| 21 | Excuse me , can I finish , er many of them are chained to the parent 's legs while they 're collected for these people then to bring to a circus , traumatized and chained to the ground for life . |
| 22 | Terminals that are connected to them are switched via the MD110 and other data traffic is directed via the Broadband Modules . |
| 23 | The identity booklet ( or key card ) together with any messages or letters that may be waiting for them are handed to the guest . |
| 24 | Two of them are shown on the right with their lines of symmetry drawn . |
| 25 | Lying behind my summary evaluations of these theories is the conviction that most of them are fixated around the unhelpful idea that hegemon states exploit other states . |
| 26 | Standard curriculum and the syllabuses which stem from them are approved by the Ministry of Education . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , I 'll tell ye — nine hundred and ninety-nine of them are glued to the Holy Writ of Economic Theory ; the remaining one , which ought to be fixed on Ireland , is blind . ’ |
| 28 | Four of them are bubbling around the kitchen and the other two are in the front room keeping an eye on the visitors , roped up on the floor watching two blacks the size of quarter-backs shaking through their jackets . |
| 29 | They can occur associated with ridge and furrow and village earthworks , but they are more widespread on upland areas like Dartmoor , where hundreds of them are scattered across the upland pasture . |
| 30 | And what about overtime on Sa I mean at the moment some of them are working during the week and Saturdays and they need that to maintain the sort of service level that we 're doing at the moment . |