Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [be] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Himself is right : half of them must be in the pay of the Foley Street mob . |
| 2 | The statement went on to give full support to APEX 's decision to limit the number of pickets ; the TUC wished to stress to all trade unionists that any action by them should be at the union 's official request . |
| 3 | But the corporation says that 5000 jobs could be created by the scheme , although few of them would be at the airport itself . |
| 4 | Such large nests and so many of them would be in the way on the earth . |
| 5 | Er after deliberate first we wondered whether they ought to go through onto the racecourse and then we decided no probably the best place for them would be round the back of the main stand . |
| 6 | You may have been in they may been in the infants when |
| 7 | Incredibly even if the person who set the snare is found out they may be beyond the reach of the law |
| 8 | It is likely that the stem cells maintain their characteristic state by virtue of their position in the basal layer where they may be under the influence of a deeper layer of cells . |
| 9 | They may be above the age of criminal responsibility but children aged between ten and 14 are presumed not to know the difference between right and wrong , therefore incapable of committing an offence . |
| 10 | Important as they may be to the birds and trout , they can be very annoying to humans and , although they may not bite , the sheer numbers of midges and blackflies have been known to send birdwatchers — and particularly photographers — into paroxysms of rage and frustration . |
| 11 | Thus it can be seen that the records of Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic flints , few and sparse as they may be to the local researcher , may , together with palaeo-environmental information and some idea of such early hunting , fishing and gathering life-styles , lead to a real appreciation of how the landscape was used by people in these early periods in the area under study . |
| 12 | Important [ but unrecognized ] though they may be to the man in the street , functional methacrylates are no more than a small side-branch in ICI 's acrylic chain . |
| 13 | Or they may be of a different kind . |
| 14 | These relations may be of the paradigmatic variety ( e.g. oppositeness , synonymy , etc. ) or they may be of the so-called paronymic sort ( that is to say , involving identity of root , but difference of syntactic category , as , for instance , with act : actor , race : racy . |
| 15 | As far as the charter is concerned they may be on the right track ( if for the wrong reasons ) . |
| 16 | Manufacturing and service companies in the Midlands believe they may be on the brink of an economic turnaround . |
| 17 | These two images , however irreconcilable they may be on the surface , are , nonetheless , merely variants of a single conception of human beings and human behaviour , exemplars of a paradigm within which the character of human relations is seen not as growing out of human purposes and choices , but as determined by some natural state of human beings . |
| 18 | Will he therefore do his best to defuse the present unhappy situation and assure the people of that great continent that , although they may be on the other side of the world , they are close to the hearts of the people of the United Kingdom ? |
| 19 | Initiating pupils into theology is an essential part of RE , so that they may be on the wavelength of the major religions and be able — if they wish — to use their language and outlooks to make sense of their own personal experience . |
| 20 | If comparisons are included they may be with an artist whose work is considered by the author to be inferior to the subject of the monograph . |
| 21 | There are many people who come into English-language teaching without having passed through formal pedagogic processes , so that when they are confronted with the terminology of the subject , they may be at a disadvantage to those who have already been to teacher-training college or who have a university degree in linguistics . |
| 22 | They may be at the root of colic , which is why lactose intolerance is important here . |
| 23 | They 've got all this on top of them as well as , say , they may be in a dangerous area . |
| 24 | ‘ They may be in a band or have a solo project which is unique but just based around singing and unusual compositions and so for them it 's harmony . |
| 25 | The price of over-identifying the struggle against racism with the activities of these extremist groups and group lets is that however much of a problem they may be in a particular area ( and I am not denying the need to combat their organizing ) they are exceptional . |
| 26 | Sexuality , he pontificated , was one of ‘ the areas of social life that are revealed only to medical men , in the hope that they may be in a position to suggest some mode of relief ’ . |
| 27 | It will also often be counterproductive to go to your second-choice expert simply because they may be in a position to do the report more quickly . |
| 28 | They may be in the car park of the supermarket or at a Local Council site . |
| 29 | Often political and economic policies are unclear to educationists , sometimes they may be in the hands of tyrants , not infrequently they conflict , but they can never be ignored . |
| 30 | The craftsmen at Hal Safi are ready and capable of supporting today 's propliners wherever they may be in the next century . |