Example sentences of "they be [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The groundwork principles are a necessary element in the art of kung fu and they are usually taught towards the end of training , since many of them are at times contradictory to the normal rules governing training . |
| 2 | By 1900 however , the birth rate was plunging as couples chose to have fewer children , just as improved health had also begun to have a marked impact ; and it is the combination in the twentieth century of a now almost stagnant population of small families with a new fall in death rates which explains the striking rise of over-sixty-year-olds to form over 20 per cent of our population today and why , more than in any previous generation , such a high proportion of them are without children . |
| 3 | Significantly , most of them are by Americans , for it is in the American academy that the pressure for change , for constantly new forms of newness , is greatest . |
| 4 | Four of them are in cities of what you might regard as being of particular interest — Tripoli , Beirut , Damascus and Baghdad . ’ |
| 5 | All of them are in polysyllables before the single nasal and before nasal clusters . |
| 6 | These cut across the major and minor boundaries in that some of them are in concentrations greater and some lesser one part per million . |
| 7 | This problem is by no means insoluble , but present policies , directed as they are toward economies of scale through individual ownership are , at best , irrelevant to such farmers . |
| 8 | they are between jobs and are taking time to search for the most appropriate job with the highest wage ( search unemployment ) ; |
| 9 | They are not well off , but they are not on the breadline and it is to our credit that we have a structure that supports people when they are between jobs . |
| 10 | Erm , they are about procedures but I would like the committees view on them . |
| 11 | Town parishes — St James ' in Trowbridge for example — are much more open-minded about working clergy wives , as they are about women deacons . |
| 12 | The link between these operas is that they are about men who had changed the world through the power of ideas . |
| 13 | Children are almost as much into names as they are into ages . |
| 14 | They are under orders not to reveal the identities of their clients or what they are prepared to pay . |
| 15 | I look forward to hearing his contribution and finding out whether he can guarantee to employees whose companies are about to be privatised that their future pension rights will be as secure as they are under TOPS . |
| 16 | The Liberal Democrat leader said : ‘ They are on roads I would not drive along in a Land-Rover when I was sober . ’ |
| 17 | THE ITV companies have publicly denied that they are at loggerheads after missing the deadline to agree on a new system for commissioning programmes for the ITV network from next year . |
| 18 | Such aspects of life are normally just taken for granted yet , if thought about , they are at odds with a materialistic understanding of the world ; they point to something other — something more . |
| 19 | This is important in the treatment of self-poisoning patients because , as has already been noted , they are at times regarded with hostility by hospital staff ( p. 22 ) , and by relatives and friends ( p. 23 ) . |
| 20 | The major differences between the two positions — and they are at times crudely drawn — focus on : |
| 21 | I think mostly erm , I think that the audits have gone erm , very well actually erm , people are following the procedures and they are at times , they are a little bit slipping up erm , enquiries seem to be an area and filling in the enquiry form properly and making sure that it is copied to the divisional enquiry file erm , a few people fell down on that erm , but in most cases the procedures were followed virtually to a letter . |
| 22 | They are at pains to insist that they are not called to be a denomination . |
| 23 | That includes chatting to the band throughout the day , to make sure that they are at interviews , TV sessions and record signing sessions . |
| 24 | In practice they are at daggers drawn as the furore over Tom Clarke 's pronouncements on the subject this week amply illustrates . |
| 25 | A Scotland Yard spokesman said : ‘ If people are going out to drink , they want to do it when they are with friends . |
| 26 | A more important point is that passages of this sort , spliced as they are with images like the lizard from the immediate foreground of Pound 's tent inside the wire-mesh cage of the prison camp , do not come into being out of the free associations of idle reverie , though in these Pisan cantos Pound exploits the illusion of that , as Joyce did in Ulysses when he pretended to transport himself and us into the mind of Leopold Bloom . |
| 27 | Zoologists can with greater justice call humans fish , since fish are far closer kin to humans than they are to lobsters . |
| 28 | But trade flows are at least as sensitive to the level of non-tariff barriers as they are to tariffs themselves . |
| 29 | There could be a good Dream in artificial intelligence the POV of an omniscient machine intellect , and its struggles with humans who are to it as they are to ants . |
| 30 | The feelings are no less intense for inspectors and headteachers than they are for students and teachers in their first appointment . |