Example sentences of "[noun] they [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The classroom was the warehouse they 'd been in before . |
| 2 | Houses are no longer the gold-plated investment they have been since the war . |
| 3 | What parties they 'd been to when they were young , and Tom Reynard was holding court for his friends and their children . |
| 4 | The funds they receive are for specific services — hence the term ‘ fund accounting ’ . |
| 5 | Writers and the books they produced were of the same type , full of antiquarian information and the archaic vocabulary that went with it . |
| 6 | Some people defend television by pointing out that , though children read less as they grow older , the actual number of books they read is on the increase . |
| 7 | Many of them are well known , such as Edinburgh Castle and Stirling Castle , but we have to ensure that people are aware that some of the lesser-known sites they visit are in the care of Historic Scotland , and that they realise many more are on offer , ’ says Bill . |
| 8 | Any extra help they received was through the dedication of any class teacher who had enough energy left over from dealing with the demands of the class as a whole . |
| 9 | ‘ I have n't been drinking , Harvey , ’ she said patiently , as if this was a dialogue they had been through many times before . |
| 10 | You see the individual patient 's dilemma , we 've got no problem with the loner who comes for individual psychoanalysis they have been on their own th there 's no problem there , but but what about the group analytic situation ? |
| 11 | This book is about the transcendent worlds but some of the ideas of the philosophers of old are so noble and inspiring that the emotions they arouse are of the peak experience . |
| 12 | I 'll need dog-handlers immediately and they 'll have to be sent out to Pontino , there 's no need for them to check in here first — the girl they released is in shock . |
| 13 | Since entering the wood they had been in severe anxiety . |
| 14 | This has been in part because the universities have a perfectly general responsibility for disseminating among schools up-to-date advances in knowledge and theoretical changes within disciplines , but also , more specifically , through the Local Examination Boards they have been in a position to determine the syllabuses for public examinations , and so to a large extent to dictate a curriculum even for those pupils at school who may never themselves enter the door of a university . |
| 15 | At the moment they think being with their parents is absolutely wonderful and that 's not going to last for ever . |
| 16 | The only place they lived was in the northern mountains , the Greshorns . |
| 17 | This year 's ‘ local ’ booking they say is at Old Shildon Working Men 's Club on February 14 . |
| 18 | The economics , ethics and effects of discounting were not the talking point they had been in 1991 . |
| 19 | That they took on the importance they did was in part the fault of the government . |
| 20 | So many places they had been to , so many people … |
| 21 | They worked on through the files for the rest of the morning , a routine they had been through so often that they commented mostly in half-sentences or barely audible grunts . |
| 22 | Er the the room , the smallest room they have is for twenty five to thirty people |
| 23 | Surveys just before this Truth in Lending Act , just after , and again in 1977 , have shown a steady growth in the proportion of American consumers whose estimates of the APRs being charged on the credit they use are at least reasonably close to actual market rates . |
| 24 | If we accept that we can not prevent science and technology from changing our world , we can at least try to ensure that the changes they make are in the right directions . |
| 25 | But perhaps the most crucial changes they made were to what Gordon referred to as the " macrostructure signalling " within the passage . |
| 26 | The later books are in large measure accurately described , and the experience of the assimilated Jew in Italy , where the Jews came to harm under Mussolini but where they were never the strangers they have been in several other countries , is summarised in a well-informed and pertinent fashion . |
| 27 | The previous day they had been on the green 5¼ hours to out-bowl Paddington . |
| 28 | But it may be that the things they have been through these past few hundred years have exaggerated some of their original characteristics . |
| 29 | This was the middle of an argument they 'd been at home . |
| 30 | They represent enemy ships sunk by torpedoes , and the crossed guns on the left means they 've been in a surface action — that 'd be when they got the German destroyer — and the dagger below is a special operation . ’ |