Example sentences of "they [be] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 These editorial policies are not the result of idiosyncratic requirements on the part of journal editors ; they are simply part of the disciplinary culture , which every aspiring academic has to pick up .
2 They are simply part of the Government 's plan to dilute the tribal population — to promote nationalism by standardizing the Bengali language , culture and the Muslim religion .
3 Since the left- and hence the right-hand sides of this equality are polynomials they are simply shorthand for ( 2 , -3 , 1 , 0 , … ) and ( 0,0 … ) respectively .
4 They are also part of certain styles of Indian dance where gestures are explicit in conveying the beauty of the world , of women and of - love .
5 Parliamentary Labour Party — are not only the largest national group in European Parliament ; they are also part of the largest political group , the Socialist Group , within the European Parliament .
6 They are also idea for rooms with sloping ceilings , where a normal wardrobe will project some way into the room , leaving a gap behind it .
7 If she dies or leaves , they are instantly ware of it , and soon develop eggs and start constructing cells ready for the new queen .
8 In other words , we need to recognize that many apparently independent units of production are , without being legally owned subsidiaries , so dominated through subcontracting and purchasing arrangements , that they are effectively part of a single unit of capitalist production .
9 Although there is an intention to use these parts in the business they are essentially part of the operating cycle of the business and should be treated as current assets .
10 It 's been a good run and they are still top of the Premiership table but they hardly looked champions today .
11 The human spirit is trundled on to reassure them that they are still party to the heroic , which cynical people might think has departed the suburbs some time ago .
12 Most of them do all they can for the elderly with their limited resources , but if your parent is badly in need of a telephone and there is no way of your managing to install it for her , you should bring every possible pressure to bear to produce some speedy action on his or her behalf ; for sudden illness , and the need for medical attention , does not wait for lengthy negotiations and committee work to rumble on indefinitely before it puts in an appearance.With very few exceptions , blaming individual social workers for delay in providing any particular service is usually an unfair and useless exercise , for they are only part of a large organisation and if things go wrong an approach to the local Director of Social Services is the best course of action .
13 Those conceptions hold that it is not so much the white individuals who are the oppressors , for they are only part of an overall structure which has been designed to exclude blacks from positions of seniority .
14 The family member will say that these things should help , that they are only part of normal family commitment and civilised behaviour and that , if he or she did not do these things , then the primary sufferer might die .
15 Sometimes , however , they are only part of the full picture , as we shall see in examples below .
16 But they are only thinking of how or where to find food and how to keep alive .
17 They are now second to the Conservatives in 145 seats ( against Labour 's 186 ) ; but while 90 per cent of Lib Dem second places are in seats with massive Tory majorities , mainly in the south-east , Labour now has double the Liberal Democrat popular vote and is lying second in 144 seats where the Tory lead is less than 4,000 votes .
18 People in the street must be approached and told that they are now editor of The Times for a month .
19 So far , so good , but finding a set of correlations of this sort still says nothing about whether they are necessarily part of the memory formation process unless I can find a way of showing that they are not simply the aftermath of the unpleasant experience of tasting the bitter bead ; that is , I must meet my own third , reductionist criterion .
20 If not accounted for they could contaminate a specimen under study or be mistaken as an important signal of something happening within the experimental investigation , whereas they are actually part of the ‘ noise ’ — the ‘ background ’ .
21 Subroutines are usually written to be " transparent " to the calling routine ; that is , the processor registers such as accumulators and condition codes can be assumed to be unaltered by the subroutine call , unless they are explicitly part of the subroutine linkage .
22 The sympathetic nerves control the adrenals ' activity , so they are really part of the same system .
23 In the modern world , constitutions are almost ubiquitous and they are indeed part of the tribute which vice pays to virtue .
24 All too often their impressions are dismissed as false , having been based on a short , unrepresentative glimpse of part of a lesson , even thought they are usually expert at getting to the heart of the pupils ' experience in a particular classroom .
25 Instead , they are usually part of the worm burden of trichostrongyloid species which are responsible for the syndrome of parasitic gastroenteritis in sheep and as such may be controlled by the measures outlined below .
26 You see , in truth , they are hardly part of my life now .
27 I am not singing ‘ Take my head and my heart and all my bad habits but by the way I 'm sorry that you have to put up with all that but they 're just part of the package you see . ’
28 They 're just sort of painted on — you know , like black dots .
29 They 're just sort of relics of a time when people experimented with shapes and tried all kinds of different things ; these days instrument makers seem to have settled on making everything the same .
30 But I found at Herald and Post the actual reporters have only been meeting and I 've been sending all the erm all the paper work to Harlow and Bishop 's Stortford , but they 're just sort of the erm , the advertising people so erm , that 's why we 've not had anything in the papers .
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