Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [be] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soldiers , psychiatrists , and priests might on this basis be classified together as social controllers ; doctors and perhaps teachers should be classified as sustainers : the proper theoretical place for them is as the maintenance engineers of labour power ; playwrights , philosophers , accountants , sociologists , and lawyers must be classified together as conceptive ideologists . |
| 2 | The most striking difference between them is in the amount they wrote — Beccaria so little and Bentham so much . |
| 3 | Again , the difference between them is in the language used to describe this process : for determinists manipulation is achieved by altering the factors that cause criminal behaviour ; for indeterminists it is achieved by making crime a relatively less attractive choice . |
| 4 | And after it being for the money , I thought being an elf would please my son . ’ |
| 5 | So she 'd have to face the prospect of me being on the dole for a long time . |
| 6 | Yes , well anyhow that , that more or less covers the early part of me being on the beat . |
| 7 | Some of them are below the level you expect and below the standards we want to provide , ’ it says . |
| 8 | Most of them are of the lancet type particularly associated with the commissioners ' buildings and many — for example , Christ Church , Meadow Lane , Leeds ( 1823–6 , demolished ) and Honley near Huddersfield ( 1842–3 ) — had thin arcade piers of cast iron ; but Chantrell was a serious student of Gothic . |
| 9 | Molecular evidence has shown that the old concept of great apes ( family Pongidae ) , as distinct from humans ( family Hominidae ) , is no longer valid because the African apes and humans are more closely related to each other than any of them are to the orang-utan . |
| 10 | ‘ There are lots of priests at Manchester United , ’ he said in typical Docherty style , ‘ and some of them are on the board . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ A lot of them are under the water and you ca n't see them . |
| 12 | Many factors affect the usage , and not all of them are under the control of the textile works . |
| 13 | Yet double , triple and even multiple stars are surprisingly common in space , and some of them are within the range of binoculars or even the naked eye . |
| 14 | So that you may find that all the hesitations are by women , or most of them by women , or most of them are in the pub , or most of them are a after ten at night , or ar you know , you can look at the context in which certain words , certain conversational gambits that some of them use . |
| 15 | ‘ Most of them are in the south of England , which could , in the next 10 years , see the top teams coming from Chichester or Eastbourne , ’ Roberts said . |
| 16 | Many of them are in the south of England , in seats held by Conservative Members of Parliament . |
| 17 | Most of them are in the name of Thomas Leavy , a cover identity originally provided by the CIA in 1982 and reinforced by the DIA in 1990 for Operation Shakespeare . |
| 18 | Some of them are in the library . |
| 19 | The two of them were at the bottom of Heymouth Brae where official transport was ferrying people up and down , and to and from the railway station . |
| 20 | He would never forget how Samuel Reichmann and his partner , Emmanuel Hollander , had been fined for trading with the Germans by the Jewish Court of Tangier , and how one or both of them were on the blacklist of the British Consulate . |
| 21 | The girls said some of them were on the pill , others were n't because their mams and dads do n't know and they dare n't go to the family planning clinic . |
| 22 | It 's like all the , you know , the office , and they said all of them were on the opening today , all , all the stores . |
| 23 | QPR vs Cov got about 7 mins ( and most of them were about the resignation and hardly any football ! ! ) |
| 24 | The great majority of them were with the management and unions of the railways , the remainder with politicians , civil servants and others closely involved with the railways and their industrial relations . |
| 25 | Eight He was eighty nine when he died , and er both of them were in the family tradition , journalists . |
| 26 | Fuzzy Logic has 125 owners … all regulars at Prestbury Park and nearly all of them were in the paddock to see their very own horse getting ready for its first run … its trained by Nigel twiston Davies and his assitant Peter Scudamore |
| 27 | In the dream all three of them were in the garden of the house outside Oxford . |
| 28 | And all of a sudden three big juggernauts came into the camp and one of them was on the back of a truck . |
| 29 | One or other of them was with the child at all times . |
| 30 | When she went downstairs again , neither of them was in the drawing-room . |