Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most important union for farm workers in England is the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers ( NUAAW ) which has a membership of approximately 90000 , three-quarters of whom are employed on the land . |
| 2 | This story runs parallel with that of a bank robbery which is being planned for 14th July by a group of petty criminals , some of whom are employed on the building site for the new hotel . |
| 3 | Think of the many hours when the two of them are closeted in the den . |
| 4 | Paradoxically , the more moderate of them are insisting on the maintenance of their block votes because the party is still not fully democratic . |
| 5 | A great majority of them are looking for the theatre of books , and it is not there . |
| 6 | Little wonder , really , that right now the two of them are looking for the time of their life with someone of their own age . |
| 7 | I mean some of them are built in the roof . |
| 8 | Wind sites must be placed where the wind blows fairly constantly , most of them are situated around the coast . |
| 9 | Descendants of the nomadic ‘ hordes ’ of Central Asia , many of them are related to the minority peoples of the Soviet Union , whom they closely resemble . |
| 10 | Excuse me , can I finish , er many of them are chained to the parent 's legs while they 're collected for these people then to bring to a circus , traumatized and chained to the ground for life . |
| 11 | The identity booklet ( or key card ) together with any messages or letters that may be waiting for them are handed to the guest . |
| 12 | Two of them are shown on the right with their lines of symmetry drawn . |
| 13 | Standard curriculum and the syllabuses which stem from them are approved by the Ministry of Education . |
| 14 | Four of them are bubbling around the kitchen and the other two are in the front room keeping an eye on the visitors , roped up on the floor watching two blacks the size of quarter-backs shaking through their jackets . |
| 15 | They can occur associated with ridge and furrow and village earthworks , but they are more widespread on upland areas like Dartmoor , where hundreds of them are scattered across the upland pasture . |
| 16 | And what about overtime on Sa I mean at the moment some of them are working during the week and Saturdays and they need that to maintain the sort of service level that we 're doing at the moment . |
| 17 | ‘ A group of them are concentrated around the gas drums . ’ |
| 18 | Most of them are contained in the report I had drawn up , which is in front of you now . ’ |
| 19 | Each day , when Tod and I are done with the Gazette , we take it back to the store . |
| 20 | My wife and I are staying at the Danieli , but she 's not been feeling well and urged me to take up the offer of an observer 's seat here . ’ |
| 21 | And now , on a clear morning , Graham Little and I are sitting at the bottom of the wall , fit and ready to go , and the wall is plastered with verglas . |
| 22 | Fairfax and I are sitting on the verandah at Folly Farm . |
| 23 | I am thinking about the table that is |
| 24 | I am thinking of the child becoming part of a new family so that the new parents become the ‘ psychological parents ’ , and thus offer a sense of security , a sense of belonging , of being loved , until the child reaches adulthood and beyond . |
| 25 | Here I am thinking of the definition of race exclusively in terms of culture and identity which ties certain strands in antiracism to the position of some of the new right ideologues . |
| 26 | I am thinking of the death of Primo Levi , an autobiographer , and by certain standards an amateur ; of the threatened death of the novelist Salman Rushdie ; and of the discovery of the fascist sympathies formerly exhibited by the literary theorist Paul de Man . |
| 27 | A colossal number of Housing Executive dwellings in my constituency are in urgent need of renovation — I am thinking of the housing estates at Tullycarnet , Ballybeen , Groomsport , Bangor and Holyrood . |
| 28 | I am proceeding in the belief that there is a unity in developmental mechanisms , and whilst the sea-urchin provided an excellent model , there are other examples to be considered . |
| 29 | I am struck by the pervasiveness of assumptions of genre in writing and thinking about television , and by the simultaneous difficulty of identifying where the theoretical groundings of these assumptions lie . |
| 30 | I am struck by the image of ‘ fire ’ in ‘ Paterson . ’ |