Example sentences of "they [be] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are plenty of surgical patients walking around with only one lung , and some of them are down to a third of normal lung area . |
| 2 | Many directors who take dividends in lieu of salary may think they are on to a good thing . |
| 3 | Judging by the trade and the spirited bidding , Scotland 's hill farmers now know that they are on to a good thing . |
| 4 | The problem , in other words , for the British in arguing their case for free trade is that they are up against a deep cultural divide which separates them from most of the other Member States . |
| 5 | Or they are up against an anti-terrorist policy so cynical that its devisers are prepared to sacrifice a certain amount of civilian life in order to strip the terrorists of any legitimacy . |
| 6 | In football , although the team lost the national league final they are in with a reasonable chance of retaining the All Ireland cup . |
| 7 | The players gave En Shao his required speed , demonstrating what fine form they are in despite the financial problems which have clouded the organisation of late . |
| 8 | But for no more than half-a-dozen months — and then they are back on the high seas again , pursuing their trade . |
| 9 | DON T BE MISLED , whether Socialists run in their true colours , or in an underhand way as ‘ Labour ’ or ‘ Cooperative ’ , they are out for the same end , and your only remedy is to VOTE THEM DOWN . |
| 10 | A brief halt at the Military Police Post to book out with the Belgian Military Policeman on duty , and they are off along the main road into Corlu . |
| 11 | The God books to be found , yeah they 're up in a high place . |
| 12 | Erm the U V A machine , the problem we 've got on there which Ray 's explained or Peter raised this morning , there is in between the the drive belts that take the film down the former and which They 've put a new set on which is a hundred and forty pound a pi They 're in between the two drive wheels , there is a plastic adjuster . |
| 13 | Otherwise , they 're in for a grim time of it . |
| 14 | And then they 're off to the next one . |
| 15 | Erm investment banking and fine china in the market circumstances er performed well , erm although they 're down on the previous year . |
| 16 | They 're out on the twenty of March or something . |
| 17 | We 've got a number of good pension funds that ordinary working people can join , but the issue that has come about since compulsory competitive tendering privatization is those members that 've been in pension funds for maybe twenty , twenty five years now they 're out on the open job market with the wonderful privatized world that we live in , with a free market , and they ca n't afford to make adequate pension provision for themselves . |
| 18 | But along with Oxford United they 're out of the new Anglo-Italian Cup Competition … |
| 19 | Now they 're back to the good weather again . |
| 20 | Most of these liabilities er inevitably are n't necessarily for pensions payments they 're back to the active members , some of whom wo n't make any actual claim on this possibly for thirty years time , so there could well be a er a a scheme which is arrived at which is a pay as you go , which is n't any great liability o on , on any one pension scheme at any particular moment in time . |
| 21 | They 're back in the new Mazda MX5 . |
| 22 | ‘ It was funny to see those agents ’ faces when they discovered they were up against the famous Marc Vila ! |
| 23 | They were up against the absolute certainty of guilt expressed by all the parties weighed against them . |
| 24 | Now er I could make a point here that when they introduced one man operated buses , they thought they were on to a new thing but one man operated buses were in this town before the war . |
| 25 | One evening they were out for a long , long time . |
| 26 | You 'd travel down to the game on a Saturday , and if you met a Leeds fan at the train station , you could be sure that they were the best mate he 'd ever had , and they 'd tell you all the latest gossip that he 'd told them the last time they were out for a few pints . |
| 27 | Look them two women up at Malden and , and , and the bloke came in and they were out on an extra |
| 28 | They were out on the anonymous A40 ; George pulled into a lay-by and gingerly fingered through the wallet with renewed twinges of horror . |
| 29 | The Firth was much broader here than at Dalmeny and , if it had not been a clear day , Corbett could have almost believed they were out on the open sea . |
| 30 | It seems clear that , with careful safeguards , we need some legal machinery , similar to the provision of Place of Safety Orders for children , by which an old person could be received into residential care for their own protection , at least for a limited period of time , which would afford a breathing space for all concerned and enable a proper assessment to be made of the situation — including the wishes of the old person once they were out of the violent or neglectful environment . |