Example sentences of "[that] they [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | er , she said that they 'd been to the said this man had been to her house . |
| 2 | It may therefore become of some importance , who it was told you that they 'd been in prison together and so were at least known to each other . |
| 3 | The territories that they inhabit are for the most part inhospitable , with some of the world 's highest mountains and large expanses of desert ; and levels of literacy have traditionally been low ( some of the nationalities concerned had no written language at all at the time of their incorporation into the USSR ) . |
| 4 | is , is , in London and we deal with the British Section which is are the particular bits , but the prisoners have to be vatted and looked at and found by the International Secretaires , then they 're passed on to British Section who pass them on to us and a great deal of research goes into making sure that they really are truly prisoners of conscience , that they 've been in prison for some er possibly because of their belief or religion or their race erm and they 've not taken or advocated violence not taken part in or advocated violence and then , then they are full prisoners of conscience erm we maybe allocated them . |
| 5 | But some times when I when people tell me that they 've been in a certain environment . |
| 6 | Oh yes you mean the fact that they 've been in flower ? |
| 7 | a lot of it is er propaganda by the Conservative if , if they were gon na get it right , why could n't they get it right in the thirteen years that they 've been in power ? |
| 8 | But I said , that they 've been in bathrooms for years like ! |
| 9 | He went on to say that they had been at great pains to build up an efficient fifth-column unit and should not be expected to give up their best men as soon as they were trained . |
| 10 | I knew that they had been on the point of shipping dialysis machines to Lebanon in an attempt to free Alec Collett just before the bombing of Libya . |
| 11 | In other words , quite apart from the franchise changes that did the party no net harm , the changes of 1918–21 transformed the Unionists from the natural minority that they had been in 1914 to a natural majority party until the Second World War . |
| 12 | Thirty MPs prefixed their names with Bo , indicating that they had been in the BNA and were now active in the PVO . |
| 13 | A four-month amnesty came into force on Oct. 13 allowing illegal non-EC immigrants to regularize their position , provided that they had been in the country for six months and were earning a living . |
| 14 | ( Two surviving compositors , both of whom began work in 1909 told me that they had been among the last recruits . ) |
| 15 | It made it no better for her that they had been after her father . |
| 16 | Then they stared at each other in silence and saw into each other 's heart , sensing that each was a little afraid of what was to come , and of the powers that they felt were in their wings and across their lives and which had brought them together . |
| 17 | The major contradiction that they detected was between his vision of a European ensemble able to challenge the two existing superpowers and his narrowly nationalist priorities . |
| 18 | It may be that they have been without God and alone and lost in the world and that through the preaching of the word they have become Christians . |
| 19 | As a generalization , competitors are more open with each other that they have been in the past and there is much more information available . |