Example sentences of "they be [prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The half of them are on my rent-roll anyway . ’ |
| 2 | Those assets certainly would cost money to replace and to that extent their existence means they are worth their replacement cost : without them we would have to incur the replacement cost to retain their services . |
| 3 | Underlying this simplistic approach is sound reasoning , namely that your audience needs to know at all times where they are during your presentation . |
| 4 | Perhaps most important we fully employ our drivers and retain all employment responsibilities but they are under your direction and control under the Transport Acts . |
| 5 | They are beyond his strength . |
| 6 | They are on the road , they are on their way . |
| 7 | They are on their way . ’ |
| 8 | OPERATOR : ‘ They are on their way . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ They are on their way . |
| 10 | It takes place automatically when the clubhead is swung correctly to the top of the backswing , but the wrists do not cock fully until they are on their way back to the ball . |
| 11 | ‘ We always try to be the first to drop our rates when they are falling , but the last to increase them when they are on their way up , ’ assures Vos . |
| 12 | You do something well and they 're cheering you , but you make a mistake and they are on your back . |
| 13 | Well , life is not like that and you have got to individually contact every single one of the countries and do everything you fairly and properly can to make sure that they are on your side , and this is what I did . ’ |
| 14 | This almost surreal tone runs throughout and you are left with That 's all they are on your screen and United Nations Campaign against Greed . |
| 15 | Erm , so , if they are on my door . |
| 16 | For example , the thought ‘ They are on my left ’ does not ‘ succeed ’ as a thought unless I can also have other thoughts such as ‘ If I move to my left they will move to my right ’ , ‘ They are substantial ’ ( that is , not a chimera ) , ‘ They are reachable/not reachable ’ , ‘ They are supported by something ’ , ‘ A large opaque object coming between me and them would render them invisible to me ’ … |
| 17 | What the elder thus proclaims is that he has a ‘ hotline ’ to the ancestors , that they are on his side and , in effect , do his bidding . |
| 18 | our clerks , while they are on our business , ought not to be compelled to take necessary orders [ holy orders , that is ] or to make personal residence in their benefices , or in any other way to be molested and disturbed . |
| 19 | ‘ They are at their home in Scotland , but Mrs Ogilvy writes that Gigia , their Italian maid whom they took back with them , is returning to Florence next month . ’ |
| 20 | it follows from this that ‘ it is characteristic of all unproductive labourers that they are at my command … only to the same extent as I exploit productive labourers … however , my power to employ productive labourers by no means grows in the same proportion as I employ unproductive labourers , but on the contrary diminishes in the same proportion . ’ |
| 21 | They are to my mind just the kind of material to satisfy the curiosity and thirst for knowledge of a young inquiring mind , with the dozens of just-right illustrations complementing the words perfectly . |
| 22 | Terry 's theme is seasonable but his ideas are not for your living room or Christmas tree — they are for your partywear . |
| 23 | They are for my bride , whether she 's a great lady or a governess . ’ |
| 24 | When the mouthbrooder picks up her eggs she gathers up the Synodontis eggs with them which she incubates inside her mouth along with her own fry until they are released as tiny replicas of their natural parents — possibly after preying on the cichlid fry while they are inside her mouth . |
| 25 | Then the male fertilizes the eggs once they are inside his pouch and then he looks after them until they hatch and the poor male staggers around with an enormous great pouch full of wriggling er baby sea horses until they 're finally born . |
| 26 | ‘ HOSTILE takeovers do not happen here , because of our culture ; they are against our way of doing business . ’ |
| 27 | Responsible parents do n't smoke while they are near their baby , ’ she said . |
| 28 | These receive tax concessions for operating in Mexico but their location is so close to North America that they are near their distribution networks and markets , and other North American facilities . |
| 29 | I can only talk to other computers when they are within my range . |
| 30 | ‘ Those who sent you here , those who sent you on your mission against the people of the Soviet Union , they are from your past . |