Example sentences of "they [be] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Previous application of this method ( viz. a 1-stage Delphi with interactive feedback ) earlier in this research programme has shown that many employers embarking often for the first time on strategic employment policy-making require some means of obtaining confirmation they are on the right lines . |
| 2 | Automatic directions under RSC Ord 25 , r8 will apply to claims for provisional damages when they are at the immediate damages stage , unless the plaintiff wants to call more than two medical experts . |
| 3 | It is less immediately evident that such an understanding should be necessary in order to account for the formal properties of code switching , although I would argue strongly that it is , inasmuch as the extent to which switching may take place is in part a function of the extent to which the codes involved have " fused " within a community , i.e. how interchangeable they are for the different purposes of everyday interaction . |
| 4 | Though exact figures are lacking , as indeed they are for the previous Councils , Lateran II seems to have been better attended than most , if not all , others hitherto . |
| 5 | Erm I 'm er rising to take the opportunity to sum up the debate er for those of us on this side of the house and to say that on this side of the house we do welcome these orders actually coming through , delayed though they are and er besmirched though they are by the usual examples of government incompetence in failing to send them to the scrutiny committee in the proper manner to allow the usual processes to take place but wi that 's par for the course these days . |
| 6 | Masked as they are by the sexual scents of other animals or the synthesised fragrance of flowers , they probably still affect our behaviour to some extent . |
| 7 | So , there 's strong underpinnings with what they 've got and they are in the right areas of the market . |
| 8 | Pink and white lavatera pop up from seed and are left to flourish if they are in the right places . |
| 9 | I am enclosing tickets for the new play and as they are in the front stalls , I may see you as I come on , ; but do not expect me to salute you , you understand , as I shall be taken up with my part . |
| 10 | These two factors , as well as the size and number of polyps , are , as they are in the large bowels , thought to be associated with a greater risk of malignant change . |
| 11 | ‘ They are mentioned in our history and they are in the old texts . |
| 12 | Meadows notes that informal communication networks are much stronger , and more tightly integrated , in science than they are in the social sciences . |
| 13 | They 're for the mass graves expected to be needed after the first German air raids . ’ |
| 14 | they 're like the wordless books |
| 15 | Although they were at the agricultural policies undoubtedly continue to be relevant , still have a significant part to play in many current situations . |
| 16 | Of course , they were at the opposite ends of the price range . |
| 17 | We have some wry wry smiles from some of the older people er in the group here because they er did n't get much when they were at the formative stages of their careers . |
| 18 | They were included within the diplomacy of the successor states , even though they were outside the geographical bounds of the one-time Roman Empire . |
| 19 | As soon as they were amongst the shuttered houses of Edinburgh , Corbett slowed down and turned to grin at the pale , terrified face of Ranulf . |
| 20 | But , as we have seen , other products of social organisation , such as seals and medallions , can have this quality too and , in the right conditions , may be aptly considered more reliable , as they were by the medieval knights . |
| 21 | There were some young student nuns already in place , they were in the front rows , eager and anxious to miss nothing . |
| 22 | The 1967 Abortion Act made it possible for women to get abortions if they were in the early stages of pregnancy and could persuade two doctors that they met certain criteria . |
| 23 | Wicked persons are also tempted to remove the plates from their own or someone else 's copy and frame them ; the plates and text are much more separable in every way than they were in the old herbals . |
| 24 | A retrospective account written in 1937 gives the occupational composition of these pioneering groups : they were in the main teachers and shopkeepers , representing both high and low church — essentially the lower-middle classes . |
| 25 | Carolyn and Diana were drawn to each other from the start because they were among the only pupils whose parents were divorced . |
| 26 | He listened to the few men who had survived for more than a few weeks and talked of ‘ Blighty ’ and prayed only for a ‘ cushy wound ’ so they could be moved to the nearest hospital tent and , if they were among the lucky ones , eventually be sent home to England . |
| 27 | erm in general we must remember that Iran was erm stating very clearly that it was exporting it 's revolution and there were statements which came out from the Iraqui from the Irani revolutionary committee that they were against the Arab states at the time and that they were very committed towards liberating Israel through Baghdad and such statements was coming , so obviously erm the Arabs had to stick together according to charter of the league of Arab states , which everybody was a member of , and Iraq being subjected to war it was natural for the Arabs to give Iraq support . |