Example sentences of "that they [am/are] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 've shown in their last two games in beating Spurs and Leeds that they 're in a false position . |
| 2 | Since colours can vary slightly , it 's important to buy all the tiles you need at once to ensure that they 're from the same batch ; it 's also a good idea to unpack and mix them before fixing them , to even out any colour variations . |
| 3 | There is a coffee bar here and women selling embroidery and woollens line the path to the viewpoint — for all that they are at a good tourist point , the prices here and at other such places around the island usually remain reasonable . |
| 4 | But certainly when we in the regional office get that that advice before before we put a submission to ministers , we will of course try to reconcile the figures so that they are on a consistent basis . |
| 5 | Both sides have a point to prove Saints that they can bounce back quickly from the Bradford disappointment ; Leeds that they are on a consistent run of wins . |
| 6 | There are no comprehensive statistics in this area , but a CRE survey ( 1 ) concludes that the number of ethnic minority teachers the eight LEAs is very small , that they are on the lowest scales and have no career progression . |
| 7 | So valuable is it that some scientists regard it as a scent and as soon as they detect it , they know that they are on the right track . |
| 8 | Work done by the Senegalese group has convinced Papert that they are on the right track . |
| 9 | Ca n't help thinking that they are on the right track and it 's we who are barking up the wrong tree . |
| 10 | The fighting in Mostar and central Bosnia has forced the UN Security Council to condemn the Bosnian Croats , despite their claims that they are on the defensive . |
| 11 | Politicians can only be trusted when they think that they are on the winning side and will ignore any democratic mechanism to prove that they are ‘ right ’ . |
| 12 | A great proportion of our farmers , large and small , know in their hearts that they are on the wrong road , but have neither the wisdom nor the courage to strike out on radically new lines . |
| 13 | The siren , a metre-long amphibian from the southern United States , has lost its back legs altogether and its front legs are not only greatly reduced in size but have no bones within them , merely cartilage , so that they are of no practical use in locomotion . |
| 14 | We therefore might be misled into thinking that they are of the same logical type . |
| 15 | The only exceptions to the sequential rule are inserts , which can be added in without affecting any of the other material provided that they are of the same length as the material which they are replacing . |
| 16 | Accordingly , futures contracts will not be investments of the same kind as debt securities or even contracts for differences , although SFA may perhaps agree that they are of the same kind as contracts for differences for this purpose ; in practice , however , any dealer who normally deals in futures contracts is usually likely to deal in contracts for differences in any event . |
| 17 | It is usually staffed by Macintosh enthusiasts who think that they are onto a good thing and often appear to enjoy a remarkably short life span … |
| 18 | It is eventually discovered that they are from the ageing Frenchman Bertrand . |
| 19 | Some scientists — and we should add hastily that they are in a small minority — feel that this is mincing words : they feel that by ‘ forever ’ we should mean an infinite number of billions of years rather than a period whose duration can be estimated . |
| 20 | Many providers seem to have been able to ‘ capture ’ the market place , safe in the knowledge that they are in a better position than purchasers to favourably influence the local and national political environments to their advantage . |
| 21 | The ACPO feels that they are in a cleft stick . |
| 22 | Such places exist in some blocks of workmen 's dwellings , and applications for them are waiting long before a vacancy occurs , provided , of course , that they are in a convenient district . |
| 23 | That 's in the open ocean in enclosed basins , for example the Black Sea , many fjords and sea lochs , the deep waters are not renewed by water masses moving in from other areas in the way that they are in the open ocean and there anoxia can occur in the deep waters , that is the oxygen can be completely removed by biological activity particularly in degradation processes of organic matter , bacterial respiration so anoxic conditions can occur in isolated deep basins but low oxygen concentrations are actually very rare in the open ocean . |
| 24 | This is because classically they have a well-defined location at a particular instant whose specification is part of what is involved in saying that they are in the same state of motion . |
| 25 | Never a great footballing side , if it was not for the fact that they are in the same League as Athletico Whaddon , they would probably be known as the Athletico Whaddon of Division Three . |
| 26 | No one willingly accepts that they are in the wrong and parents will certainly harbour resentment and be unlikely to positively support the school following a dispute where they are made to lose . |
| 27 | It should not be too much to ask them to forgive the miserable uncertainty of a young man at Oxford 23 years ago , and it should not be impermissible to say that they are in the wrong if they refuse . |
| 28 | For instance , when subjects are asked to relive an emotional experience , their pulse rate and brain recordings indicate that they are in an aroused state . |
| 29 | The remainder seem to be there as bystanders , sharing only the characteristic that they are in an activated form . |
| 30 | Following their defeat of Ampleforth , Mount St Mary 's beat a successful Leeds GS side 39-3 , suggesting that they are among the strongest school sides in the country . |