Example sentences of "it be [vb pp] [prep] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | On December 10th , the party leaders decided to jump the fence if it were presented to them … |
| 2 | Now it 's arranged for them to spend a year living with families over here . |
| 3 | The Sawdoctors claim ( or it 's claimed for them ) that they 're the voice of a young , rural Ireland . |
| 4 | The ‘ Action Men ’ are aware that it is used as a term of abuse and often become angry when it is applied to them . |
| 5 | Although it has been argued that nectar might contain repellents to ants that otherwise predominate on sugary substrates in the tropics , it is found that ants will take this nectar when it is presented to them , though the floral parts of such flowers may be less palatable . |
| 6 | Under league rules , the Northern League must be informed by the end of January if any club wishes to take promotion if it is offered to them . |
| 7 | Now when there is excess flood water it is held between them and let out slowly later . |
| 8 | It has also been found in the following four contexts : ( 31 ) " The living have never used that road since the coming of the Roherrim , " said Aragorn , " for it is closed to them . |
| 9 | Now some doctors could conceivably still be frightened off , but we must presume , I think , that doctors are literate people , that they can understand what the law is if it is told to them , and the medical societies and other groups are making available to them the workings of this particular Act . |
| 10 | Instead , quiet obedience ( or , as we shall see , noisy obedience when it is required of them ) , as they and their God go on their way , striking not just fear , but sharp swords into the hearts of the inhabitants of the land . |
| 11 | When girls perform well such behaviour is frequently explained in terms of their ‘ conformity ’ , for example , they ask the right questions because … it is expected of them , not because they are bright ; they follow the rules because … they are passive and dependent , not because they are anxious to do well ; their work is neat and tidy , therefore not creative . |
| 12 | ’ It 's a sad reflection of society nowadays , ’ said the school 's headmaster ’ We blame children for a lot of things these days , but most of it is forced on them by the pressures of modern living . ’ |
| 13 | Even so , the refugees themselves are likely to resist any settlement unless it is forced upon them by the Syrian government itself . |
| 14 | That prompted judge Robert Watson from the USA to interject : ‘ Judges can only score a foul if it is reported to them by the referee . ’ |
| 15 | it took some time before it was explained to them that the French pronunciation of GPT sounded just like ‘ J'ai pété ’ which , as all you Europhiles no doubt know , means ‘ I have broken wind . ’ |
| 16 | It was assumed by them that Diana would somehow be able to assume their rigid code of behaviour overnight . |
| 17 | When it was suggested to them as a possibility it was understood by them as an opportunity for a breathing space in the absence of any other alternative . |
| 18 | and I notice when we went , we went to see Chas and Dave er at the Derndan it was packed with them |
| 19 | No need to elaborate on why it would be useless to send for the witness yet , it was accepted between them without words . |
| 20 | Oh it was accepted in them days . |
| 21 | However , because they had been unemployed , they had not earned enough money in the previous three years to qualify for the mature student allowance , and so it was denied to them . |
| 22 | Originally it was planned for them to eliminate enemies of the Islamic Republic , but this mission was deemed more important . |
| 23 | erm A lot of people gave as a reason for getting a particular piece of furniture the fact that it was given to them by their parents when they got married , or that a neighbour was trying to get rid of it , or that somebody from work had passed it on and they needed one . |
| 24 | The last time it was asked about them by The Times , the best that it could do was to put up a research assistant to the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) to answer . |
| 25 | The state was not the originator of all these transformations but it was implicated in them in quite new ways . |
| 26 | Edwin and Robert Grabhorn , who founded the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco in 1920 , worked so amicably together that it was said of them : ‘ When Ed 's away the shop goes to pieces ; when Bob 's away , Ed goes to pieces ’ ; but it would be a mistake to think that relationships between printers were always so harmonious . |
| 27 | As McKerrow put it : " much of what we strive to find out was not and could not be known to those of the period which we study , for it was veiled from them by the life of everyday . " |
| 28 | The office of Earl Marshal was to all intents and purposes the heritable property of the Howard family , although it was lost to them for several decades after the attainder of the fourth Duke of Norfolk in 1572 . |
| 29 | The clock above the fireplace chimed out its message , but it was lost on them . |
| 30 | It was presented to them as a detective game in which they were encouraged to help the Pink Panther to solve some mysteries . |