Example sentences of "they [vb mod] be [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Himself is right : half of them must be in the pay of the Foley Street mob . |
| 2 | The statement went on to give full support to APEX 's decision to limit the number of pickets ; the TUC wished to stress to all trade unionists that any action by them should be at the union 's official request . |
| 3 | But the corporation says that 5000 jobs could be created by the scheme , although few of them would be at the airport itself . |
| 4 | Such large nests and so many of them would be in the way on the earth . |
| 5 | Er after deliberate first we wondered whether they ought to go through onto the racecourse and then we decided no probably the best place for them would be round the back of the main stand . |
| 6 | Incredibly even if the person who set the snare is found out they may be beyond the reach of the law |
| 7 | It is likely that the stem cells maintain their characteristic state by virtue of their position in the basal layer where they may be under the influence of a deeper layer of cells . |
| 8 | They may be above the age of criminal responsibility but children aged between ten and 14 are presumed not to know the difference between right and wrong , therefore incapable of committing an offence . |
| 9 | Important [ but unrecognized ] though they may be to the man in the street , functional methacrylates are no more than a small side-branch in ICI 's acrylic chain . |
| 10 | Important as they may be to the birds and trout , they can be very annoying to humans and , although they may not bite , the sheer numbers of midges and blackflies have been known to send birdwatchers — and particularly photographers — into paroxysms of rage and frustration . |
| 11 | Initiating pupils into theology is an essential part of RE , so that they may be on the wavelength of the major religions and be able — if they wish — to use their language and outlooks to make sense of their own personal experience . |
| 12 | Manufacturing and service companies in the Midlands believe they may be on the brink of an economic turnaround . |
| 13 | These two images , however irreconcilable they may be on the surface , are , nonetheless , merely variants of a single conception of human beings and human behaviour , exemplars of a paradigm within which the character of human relations is seen not as growing out of human purposes and choices , but as determined by some natural state of human beings . |
| 14 | They may be at the root of colic , which is why lactose intolerance is important here . |
| 15 | ‘ They may be in the radar demonstration room learning the art of manipulating radar devices which surely must be beyond the comprehension of all but the bespectacled gentry who invented them , or maybe they , too , are learning something of ‘ behaviour at height ’ and the ‘ ways of jetstreams ’ . |
| 16 | They may be in the heart of France 's wine-growing region collecting the plonk by the caseload to bring back home , but with some serious driving involved , la boozing is out of the question we hear on the grapevine . |
| 17 | They may be in the car park of the supermarket or at a Local Council site . |
| 18 | True , these sources overlap , different as they may be in the nature of their risk , difficulty , and complexity , and the potential for innovation may well lie in more than one area at a time . |
| 19 | Often political and economic policies are unclear to educationists , sometimes they may be in the hands of tyrants , not infrequently they conflict , but they can never be ignored . |
| 20 | Although they are , they must be to the people concerned but I mean , a pet 's usually a dog , cat or bird is n't it ? |
| 21 | They are closely interrelated , separated though they must be for the purpose of analysis — and they are all questionable . |
| 22 | ‘ They must be on the F-Plan diet . ’ |
| 23 | If the government thinks that they 're going to solve the problem by just lashing out four hundred thousand pounds for sixteen pitches , then they are certainly mistaken , because the mere fact of these people 's business , whether they 're in scrap , whether they 're dealing in furniture , means that they must be on the move all the time . |
| 24 | They must be at the end of the pond . |
| 25 | Well , they ca n't get into the gardens from this side , so they must be in the woods . |
| 26 | They must be in the dishwasher . |
| 27 | One problem here is that now , if pre-emptive provisions other than those prescribed in the Act are to apply , they must be in the memorandum or articles whereas previously they could have been provided in other ways , for example in an agreement between the shareholders or as part of the terms of issue of the shares . |
| 28 | Yeah , they should be with the camera . |
| 29 | But I do n't think everyone is as aware as they should be of the after-effects . |
| 30 | We have established that for pitch differences to be linguistically significant , it is a necessary condition that they should be under the speaker 's control . |