Example sentences of "[pron] be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ardneavie House is big — at least ten bedrooms — and Lucinda and Jane and me are on the top floor with the boat's-crew Wrens . |
| 2 | The first match at the Hillsborough Centre , Sheffield , is against the Lancashire County U18s , several of whom are in the England squad . |
| 3 | Prosecutor Dorian Lovell-Pank told the court : ‘ A group of people , not all of whom are in the dock , were engaged in the wholesale theft or handling of a vast amount of property . |
| 4 | Working on the template agreed with his fellow coaches , McGeechan and Douglas Morgan , Dixon has brought a dynamism to the driving mauls , mostly triggered from clean lineout ball , which had seemed largely beyond the Scottish Exiles — four of whom are in the pack — when they attempted to deploy that tactic during the inter-district championship . |
| 5 | I think that if you 've only got twenty spaces then that 's difficult because we 've got a hundred and something members most of whom are in the central belt |
| 6 | How many of them are on the drier river terraces ? |
| 7 | ‘ There are lots of priests at Manchester United , ’ he said in typical Docherty style , ‘ and some of them are on the board . ’ |
| 8 | There are vast differences between the two , of course ; but not all of them are to the latter 's credit . |
| 9 | Molecular evidence has shown that the old concept of great apes ( family Pongidae ) , as distinct from humans ( family Hominidae ) , is no longer valid because the African apes and humans are more closely related to each other than any of them are to the orang-utan . |
| 10 | ‘ Tie-in books ’ are a major part of any best-seller list , but not all of them are of the semi-literate kind often found there and described earlier . |
| 11 | The differences between them are of the same order as the differences between modern Dutch and standard German : the Brut retains the OE case-inflexions and grammatical gender , whereas the Peterborough Chronicle , even though it is an earlier document , has lost most of these . |
| 12 | Most of them are of the lancet type particularly associated with the commissioners ' buildings and many — for example , Christ Church , Meadow Lane , Leeds ( 1823–6 , demolished ) and Honley near Huddersfield ( 1842–3 ) — had thin arcade piers of cast iron ; but Chantrell was a serious student of Gothic . |
| 13 | Erm many of my officers erm indeed all of them are of the same mind . |
| 14 | Many factors affect the usage , and not all of them are under the control of the textile works . |
| 15 | ‘ A lot of them are under the water and you ca n't see them . |
| 16 | Some of them are below the level you expect and below the standards we want to provide , ’ it says . |
| 17 | And , there was some on a plate and my sister 's little lad went up and went to take one off this plate and then Valerie tu turned round , she said er , you ca n't have one of them , them are for the old folks . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Most of them are in the south of England , which could , in the next 10 years , see the top teams coming from Chichester or Eastbourne , ’ Roberts said . |
| 20 | Some of them are in the library . |
| 21 | Although he produced Venetian and Italian vedute his views of Poland and Germany are the most sought after , although most of them are in the Dresden Museum and National Museum in Warsaw . |
| 22 | ‘ There are adequate championship courses in Britain and many of them are in the top hundred in the world . |
| 23 | Most of them are in the name of Thomas Leavy , a cover identity originally provided by the CIA in 1982 and reinforced by the DIA in 1990 for Operation Shakespeare . |
| 24 | Many of them are in the south of England , in seats held by Conservative Members of Parliament . |
| 25 | And to add to all the infamous circumstances which concur to plague a traveller , I must not forget the eternally meeting with chalk-waggons ; themselves frequently stuck fast , till a collection of them are in the same situation , and twenty or thirty horses may be tacked to each , to draw them out one by one . |
| 26 | Most of them are in the outer and inner narthices , on the walls , lunettes and in the ceiling shallow domes and ribbed cupolas . |
| 27 | Them are in the |
| 28 | So that you may find that all the hesitations are by women , or most of them by women , or most of them are in the pub , or most of them are a after ten at night , or ar you know , you can look at the context in which certain words , certain conversational gambits that some of them use . |
| 29 | Yet double , triple and even multiple stars are surprisingly common in space , and some of them are within the range of binoculars or even the naked eye . |
| 30 | I been to the country once with Annie . |