Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] them [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of products ( like salt , oil or coal ) which are won or abstracted , the person who wins or abstracts them is the producer . |
| 2 | The indifference of Limnititzkers to the great outdoors is well-known ; the only landscapes that interest them are the hills of a totally discorporeal Zion . |
| 3 | The only thing that linked them was the embarrassing albatross of a marriage in whose death both of them had been guilty . |
| 4 | The only assumption that explains them is the same assumption that leads Miller and Swift to criticise the generic masculine : that the norm of humanity in just about every sphere is a man . |
| 5 | Manipulation of ‘ needs ’ by both creating them and satisfying them is the process by which social control is effected . |
| 6 | It is this that bears on my father 's second question-how to contain the uncontainable : producing these extremes and then controlling and containing them are the problems . |
| 7 | I do not think it would be reasonable to pretend that the cost of paying people , recruiting them and retaining them is the same in the south-east as in other parts of the United Kingdom . |