Example sentences of "they be [prep] [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the sport and television market appears to be a free-for-all to delight the most Darwinist of entrepreneurs , a scrutiny of those top five private networks soon reveals that four of them are in the hands of a holding firm called Finvest , which is itself the broadcasting vehicle of the Socialist-leaning businessman Silvio Berlusconi . |
| 2 | They are about the lives of women in Bengal . |
| 3 | Here again policy and practice in the inner city are as much about the way we chose to conceptualise social problems as they are about the experiences of inner city communities themselves . |
| 4 | While a formal prospectus is normally issued for each degree course , such statements vary considerably in the amount of detail they give , and how explicit they are about the aims of the course . |
| 5 | They are on the bonnets of the jeeps , some are clinging precariously onto the sides as both vehicles speed away through the farmyard and out into the road . |
| 6 | Equally , they are on the margins of land law conceptually , since both rely on the archaic significance , in common law culture , of possession as the basis of property rights . |
| 7 | Tests have since shown that when the weak-tabby European and African wild cats are crossed with one another , the hybrid kittens develop coat patterns which are much closer to the tabby patterns of modern domestic cats than they are to the markings of either of their parents . |
| 8 | The warehouses are organised in a hierarchical manner with a central one buying from satellite warehouses , which are situated in the poorer residential areas of Cali , so that they are near the homes of the garbage pickers . |
| 9 | The arms say the light of day in a short sleeved dress and they are like the arms of a prize fighter . |
| 10 | Each image is like a candle and it is for us to embroider our minds so that they are like the constellations of the heavens — Rumi 's harvest of stars . |
| 11 | This implies that when the balance is temporarily favourable to the working class , the demands that it espouses , whether or not they are in the interests of the dominant class , may be translated into state policy — for example , on social welfare ( see Gough 1979 ; Esping-Andersen and Korpi 1984 ) , workers ' rights and so on . |
| 12 | Modern penitentials wo n't be of much use to future historians of the twentieth century , but eleventh-century penitentials might be , rich as they are in the prejudices of our enlightened age — particularly the inferior status of women . |
| 13 | Everything was seized … they are in the hands of the KGB . ’ |
| 14 | Erm I think what we have to do in particular as , as , as full time officers is , is probably try and er and erm chase things up although they they 're within the realms of the respo the respective LEC 's but to try and make sure that they do get some clearer , if not confirmed , insight into re in relation to the contribution aspect . |
| 15 | They 're like the arms of the same monster . ’ |
| 16 | They 're like the emperors of old : they do n't like bad news , so their servants make sure the truth never gets through to them . |
| 17 | By the time she 's cleared the jam , they 're in the outskirts of Bournemouth . |
| 18 | You see the i it was er we used to make curtains then for Littlewoods , Littlewoods as it is now , they 're still , you know , the they were about the forerunners of the er tt this er catalogue business , and if they gave us an order that would last us a long time , and that usually the eight points , which was meant to say there were eight threads to an inch . |
| 19 | Rather , they were with the events of August 1968 and , in particular , with the self-immolation of the young philosophy student , Jan Palach , in January 1969 . |
| 20 | They were on the backs of my hands and even on the soles of my feet . |
| 21 | The two slaves moved jerkily , as if they were at the ends of strings . |
| 22 | Accuracy of language was crucial when your life was at risk and each use of ‘ Loyalist ’ , when applied to the Protestant equivalents of the IRA , had been to Trent , a Catholic himself by birth , an insult to the Catholic community of whom the vast majority were as opposed to the evils of terrorism as they were to the injustices of long-practised prejudice on which Irish terrorism bred . |
| 23 | In a rather odd way , 19th-century public schools were just as ideally suited for the fathers of gentlemen as they were for the sons of gentlemen . |
| 24 | How could a sovereign who reigned by the will of the people resist totally such overt manifestations — confirmed as they were by the reports of similar sentiments being expressed the length and breadth of France ? |
| 25 | They were in the throes of obtaining a contract to build 87 hawker Furies , the first military order placed outside the close knit ring of SBAC constructors , and must have felt this was where their immediate future lay . |
| 26 | And so , drawing together the threads of this obsessive preoccupation with the civility of ‘ Old England ’ which had been ripped apart by a new strain of hot-blooded and un-English violence , the Old Thunderer arrived at a truly horrific conclusion : ‘ Our streets are actually not as safe as they were in the days of our grandfathers . |
| 27 | They were in the hands of vested interests , not in possession of the facts , ’ said Mr Roberts . |
| 28 | The inevitable result is that the more adventurous or less safe ways of operating public transport aircraft are far less common now than they were before the days of flight recorders . |
| 29 | Libby stared at the man 's eyes ; they were blue , but she did n't take in the colour , just the fact that they did not seem to see her , they looked at something else They were like the eyes of the blind man in Mallow , which looked everywhere but did not see as he tapped along the pavement . |
| 30 | Danger , from the Piaroa point of view , is from the predatory activities of beings from other worlds , and the responsibility for protection from them is in the hands of the shamanic ruwatu . |