Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and his wife , Nellie , live in a Home in an outer city suburb where they 've been for fifteen months . |
| 2 | It was in his experience difficult for most people to prove conclusively exactly where they had been for any forty-eight-hour period , members of the Metropolitan police force always excepted , and this was going to make his life very difficult . |
| 3 | Where they differ is in their assessment of the nature , extent and source of Bolshevik influence . |
| 4 | Where they differ is in the unique properties of their cell membranes , for the nerve cell membrane is excitable — which means that in response to a signal , such as a small local fluctuation in ion concentration across the membrane , it can rapidly become permeable to the ions outside it . |
| 5 | The majority of the contracts have been awarded to Northern Ireland institutions and where they have been with other institutions it has been the policy of the Panel to encourage the employment of junior Northern Ireland based researchers on the projects . |
| 6 | ‘ Degas to Matisse : The Maurice Wertheim Collection from the Harvard University Art Museums ’ ( 14 February-25 April ) comprises forty-three representational works of consistent high quality , collected by New York investment banker Maurice Wertheim , and bequeathed in 1950 to his alma mater , where they have been on display since 1974 . |
| 7 | The textiles themselves are normally known as a result of being preserved by corrosion , where they have been in contact with metal objects in graves ; wood and leather are often preserved in the same manner . |
| 8 | The whole Cabinet agreed that there should be a cut in the amount that the unemployed were receiving ; where they disagreed was in whether this should include a cut in the standard rate of benefit . |
| 9 | She did not feel very close to her mother , although they had been through some rough times together : |
| 10 | Homosexuality between consenting adults aged 21 or over , and abortion during a certain period of pregnancy , are not criminal offences at present , although they have been in the past . |
| 11 | They are Amazonian fish , and although they have been in captivity for a very long time , they will appreciate the soft acid water that nature designed them for , and this may prove essential for breeding . |
| 12 | Father and son exchanged looks , in better temper with each other than they 'd been for years . |
| 13 | They were both drunker than they 'd been for years . |
| 14 | He said the miners were being asked to accept wages that were even lower than they 'd been before the war and that their working conditions were appalling . |
| 15 | Some of Britain 's rivers are now cleaner than they 've been for years . |
| 16 | But if China really is now backing peace and free elections , the signs are more hopeful than they 've been for a decade . |
| 17 | On average prices were around 25 per cent lower between 1720 and 1780 than they had been between 1660 and 1680 . |
| 18 | The audience were no surer of this than they had been of the song . |
| 19 | But for Nietzsche " art as a whole " and " the Hellenic sphere " were simply not separable , any more than they had been for Winckelmann . |
| 20 | The 1480s show an average comparable with the 1430s , although this figure is probably depressed by the bad years of 1482 and 1483 in the latter year prices were higher than they had been for a century , and wages did not rise proportionately . |
| 21 | But , as Mosley noted with satisfaction , these supporters were no more use to their new leader than they had been to the BUF . |
| 22 | However , Sheila Payne , from the Department of Psychology , University of Exeter , has discovered that women being treated for breast or ovarian cancer were much more anxious half-way through their treatment than they had been at the beginning . |
| 23 | It is a decay that became inevitable when the infamous Beeching Plan substituted the crass motif of economic viability for that of communal need , and ripped out the steel vertebrae of the nation , leaving whole areas more isolated than they had been at any time since the eighteenth century . |
| 24 | After a year , the homoeopathically treated group was substantially better than the aspirin group , with two thirds of the patients better than they had been at the start of the trial , while none of the patients on aspirin had improved and most of them had dropped out , either because of unacceptable side-effects , or because the treatment was ineffective . |
| 25 | Thus lone parents were both relatively and absolutely worse off by the end of the 1980s than they had been at the start of the decade ( see also Roll , 1988a , 1988b ) . |
| 26 | The subjects with influenza were 13% slower in performing the repeated numbers detection task than they had been on recruitment ( recruitment value 555 ( SD 79 ) ms , symptomatic value 627 ( SD 132 ) ms , asymptomatic value 550 ( SD 32 ) ms ) and were significantly slower than the healthy controls ( recruitment value 565 ( SD 60 ) ms , repeat value 544 ( SD 88 ) ms , second repeat value 549 ( SD 72 ) ms ) ( p<0.05 ) . |
| 27 | ( In fact , the French lines there on February 21st were no better prepared than they had been on the Right Bank , and the rejoinder that if he had not had adequate forces he should not have undertaken the offensive in the first place is almost too obvious ) . |
| 28 | Certainly Churchill and Eden found that their dealings with Eisenhower and Dulles were no easier than they had been with the Democrats : in fact they often thought them worse . |
| 29 | It was unreasonable to suppose that an enlargement of Nicholas I 's " personal " principle could fill the vacuum in the countryside , for when the serfs were free they were even more likely to misinterpret dictates from the centre than they had been as bondmen . |
| 30 | There were clearly changes occurring , and the borderlines between social classes , never very clear at the best of times , were probably less precise than they had been before the First World War — though class barriers were by no means collapsing in the real world of health , education and social opportunity . |