Example sentences of "[be] [conj] they [vb base] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the result of that , according to the Forum of Private Business , can be that they go to the wall , taking hundreds of jobs with them . |
| 2 | One way of making it more difficult for the Community Charge Registration Officers to trace people will be if they disappear from the electoral register . |
| 3 | Tottenham 's dilemma was well chronicled last year , but one wonders how long it will be before they return to the same situation . |
| 4 | What they have in common with sociological research , however , is that they depend for the accuracy of their results on choosing the right people to ask , and on having the right questions to ask them . |
| 5 | Their important characteristic is that they cut across the divisions of the formal structure and usually are very powerful if the matters to be communicated are formally confidential or affect the future of particular individuals . |
| 6 | A common feature of all these systems and methods of control is that they contribute to the setting of standards , as well as to the measuring of performance against standards . |
| 7 | The dates on the letters are quite clear , but a vague possibility is that they refer to the first actual parachute operation and that the dates are confused — by perhaps a month . |
| 8 | One flaw in the techniques of vertical thinking is that they proceed from the known into the unknown . |
| 9 | What can be said about the most recent generation of US television narrative subgenres is that they display on the screen a much higher awareness of the conventions they are operating than is the general rule on UK television , and they are therefore much more inclined towards an ironic or parodic re-scoring of generic regimes . |
| 10 | The good new s is that they go to the Ranfurly Library . |
| 11 | My view of the exhibition and these complementary texts is that they seem for the most part to lack the critical motivation and the dialectical irony of the Situationists . |
| 12 | One of the drawbacks of the current changes and reviews in local government is that they mitigate against the development of standard patterns and practices . |
| 13 | Petty had already intimated that he might not be able to continue his attendance at the debates further ( after 29 October ) , but before the end of that day 's proceedings he explained why ‘ we [ the Levellers ] would exclude apprentices , or servants , or those that take alms , it is because they depend upon the will of other men and should be afraid to displease [ them ] ’ . |
| 14 | why are people being spoke it 's because they know at the end of the day it 's what they 're bombarding all these things what we are |
| 15 | And I 'm sure it 's because they live in the Jungle not in cities . |
| 16 | You know how these young gentlemen are when they get behind the wheel . ’ |
| 17 | What was interesting about those MPs who were swift to defend him was that they come from the traditional working-class wing of the parliamentary party — people like Jimmy Hood , or Aberdeen North 's Bob Hughes . |