Example sentences of "be [conj] they [verb] [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 | In the final game Waikato took the honours 28–24 , leafing Rugby Canada to wonder just how long it would be before they won for the first time on New Zealand soil . |
| 5 | Dexter noticed for the first time how thin his legs were as they wandered along the corridor . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | One flaw in the techniques of vertical thinking is that they proceed from the known into the unknown . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The good new s is that they go to the Ranfurly Library . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | All we can reasonably conclude is that they happened at the same time . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Fatima : I think the main difference between the Feminist Movement in Europe and Third World Countries is that they originated on the basis of different histories . |
| 17 | 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 ] ’ . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | And I 'm sure it 's because they live in the Jungle not in cities . |
| 20 | You know how these young gentlemen are when they get behind the wheel . ’ |
| 21 | One idea was that they roll downslope from the submarine volcanic vent like plastic bags full of water , before piling up on top of one another ; another was that they whizzed along the sea bed , supported by a cushion of collapsing steam bubbles ; while a third suggested that ‘ pillows ’ are n't separate entities at all , but long , worm-like tubes whose thickness varies along their length . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The trouble was that they voted against the large numbers of unemployed and voted for Fascist and Nazi Governments . |
| 24 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 25 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 26 | Rising through two floors of the White Tower , was the chapel of St. John where the lady Alianor and Joan attended Mass each morning : it was as they returned on the second morning that Joan voiced her enquiry . |
| 27 | It was as they stepped from the dodgem stand and Rachel turned from helping Belinda down the steep steps to the grass that she saw the little group of her family watching them . |