Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grass and reeds around me are flattened under the sudden , overnight fall of snow . |
| 2 | Think of the many hours when the two of them are closeted in the den . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I mean some of them are built in the roof . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Wind sites must be placed where the wind blows fairly constantly , most of them are situated around the coast . |
| 7 | He now shares his flat with sixty spiders and , as Erika Barnes reports , some of them are kept in the most unusual of places . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Terminals that are connected to them are switched via the MD110 and other data traffic is directed via the Broadband Modules . |
| 12 | The identity booklet ( or key card ) together with any messages or letters that may be waiting for them are handed to the guest . |
| 13 | Two of them are shown on the right with their lines of symmetry drawn . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Standard curriculum and the syllabuses which stem from them are approved by the Ministry of Education . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Any amino acids in the nectar are probably of little importance and nectars high in them are avoided by the birds . |
| 19 | Ways of using them are discussed in the next three chapters . |
| 20 | ‘ A group of them are concentrated around the gas drums . ’ |
| 21 | It is for the security force commanders to ensure that all the resources available to them are used with the maximum effectiveness . |
| 22 | ‘ What sometimes appear to be new strategies decentralisation , management by objectives , consultative supervision , ‘ democratic ’ leadership are usually but old wine in new bottles , because the procedures derived to implement them are derived from the same inadequate assumptions about human nature … |
| 23 | Most of them are contained in the report I had drawn up , which is in front of you now . ’ |
| 24 | The managers of any newly referenced modules and any packages containing them are notified of the SPR . |
| 25 | The managers of any newly referenced modules and any packages containing them are notified of the SPR . |
| 26 | Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French . |
| 27 | This should not suggest that my wife and I are cut from the American kind of Anglophilic chintz that may of you like to poke fun at . |
| 28 | Each day , when Tod and I are done with the Gazette , we take it back to the store . |
| 29 | And that 's still something that comes again and again when men and women , when you and I are confronted with the claims of Jesus what about this ? |
| 30 | Still clasped together , my attacker and I are frogmarched behind the scenes , into one of the little meeting-rooms . |