Example sentences of "to be [prep] those " in BNC.

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1 In fact the main lessons of these attempts seems to be to those outside Spiralynx — that organising from the outside is impossible .
2 The divide in English studies seems to be between those who want to bring the rift out into the open , and those who prefer to pretend that it does n't exist .
3 In the context of a dispute over the future of pits and communities , the main difference is thus likely to be between those areas with good prospects ( because of high productivity capabilities and substantial quantities of accessible , easily-worked coal ) and those with much less secure futures .
4 In particular , the new demand is likely to be for those concerned with software .
5 IBM 's PROF system for office workers is supposed to be for those with little or no experience of computers .
6 The Prince of Orange , unable to resist the lure of danger , galloped from the crossroads to be with those troops closest to the enemy , and the Prince 's staff , their luncheon brutally interrupted by the French gun-fire , hurried after him .
7 The problem was to be with those institutions which had no previous connection with either the NCTA or the CNAA , and where the London degree had been a part-time one .
8 And the focus of the new interest was not to be on those sectors originally envisaged as targets , but on the unlikely and controversial issue of defence .
9 Towards the end of the 13th century , the Abbot had two mills , the foundations of at least one of them ( the precinctual mill ) being rumoured to be beneath those of the present Abbey Mill .
10 In some ways I might as well have been in the Outer Hebrides , Now everyone 's got a car it 's difficult to explain how isolated somewhere like Kensal Green used to be in those days .
11 ‘ Mac , ’ as of course he was known , would promise to bring down the wrath of almighty God on them if he found them in the Trocadero , Elephant and Castle , when they should be ‘ capable of , and available for work , ’ as one had to be in those days .
12 The first movement repeat is not played , but it tended no to be in those days .
13 All I 'm saying is the forms that are mentioned in the procedure that have to go in those wallets ought to be in those colours , so red , so pink .
14 Well I 've visited both Cambodia itself and the camps , er first of all in the camps , the situation is appalling because there are very many people who do not want to be in those camps and are really in effect being held there against their will , and what has been extraordinary until this year , is that the people who 've been holding them there against their will have been the Phol Pot dominated so-called coalition government and on the basis of the people being in the camps , that , that , that regime has gone on to claim recognition at the United Nations ; an appalling situation .
15 Other northern Malawians arrested between February and May 1989 are thought to be among those set free .
16 Republic of Ireland international Bernie Slaven , who is also injured , is certain to be among those on their way out .
17 President Bob Palmer is expected to be among those fielding questions which should get pretty pointed .
18 Students and carers are likely to be among those who will be affected by this .
19 They are supposed to be among those who benefit .
20 Clashes also took place with pro-panchayat supporters , and several government ministers were reported to be among those throwing stones at the protesters .
21 Bus companies are expected to be among those competing with ScotRail 's managers to bid for the franchise .
22 I do not wish to be like those dumpy , chisel-faced women with shopping baskets who tut-tut scandals to each other between the stacked shelves of dog-food , striped toothpaste , coloured toilet-rolls and instant mashed potato in the supermarket opposite the triangle of Shepherd 's Bush Green .
23 The analysis may appear to be unlike those which , to speak quickly and only of one central matter , describe something like a causal circumstance and an effect as two items which fall under a law , and then proceed to attempt to give an account of what a law is a true proposition of a certain character .
24 Thus , " the individual creates for himself the patterns of his linguistic behaviour so as to resemble those of the group or groups with which from time to time he wishes to be identified , or so as to be unlike those from whom he wishes to be distinguished " ( Le Page and Tabouret-Keller 1985 : 181 )
25 He quoted the dismissive comment of the writer of the volume on British Painting 1530–1790 in the Pelican History of Art : ‘ To discuss the Sartorius tribe and such painters is no business of the historian of art , no matter how bitter the accusations of neglect are wont to be from those specialist writers who sometimes confuse the history of art with praising famous horses . ’
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