Example sentences of "they be [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Secondaries can usually be identified because they cluster around the larger primary , often forming chains and other small groups , and because the impacts producing them are at low angles and low speeds and so the craters are usually elongated . |
| 2 | The company as a whole employs 3,800 people , but only 22 of them are at corporate headquarters in Boston . |
| 3 | It 's er in the report that we produced , most of the families are in fact single parent families , most of them are on Social Security benefits and have been on for considerable periods of time , but there are a number of people who are in employment or who have had periods of employment , but they are in low paid jobs , so when you 're talking about an income of one hundred pounds a week , with the sort of housing costs there are and other costs , then there simply is n't enough money to go round . |
| 4 | Some of them are of great value in treating cancers , but mifepristone acts by blocking the hormone progesterone , which is essential for the maintenance of a pregnancy . |
| 5 | The Bill is bound to be extensively amended before it reaches the statute book — at the time of writing 16 , amendments have been put down by the Government and 25 of them are of major importance — but it is believed that few if any of these amendments will affect settlements under which there is subsisting an interest in possession . |
| 6 | Indeed , the trees which separate them are of different varieties and are , generally , more gracile than those at Woodchester ( Neal 1981 , no. 87 ) . |
| 7 | Daumier is famous for his satirical lithographs ; his equally good drawings and watercolours are less known as so many of them are in private collections . |
| 8 | The children with no-one to protect them are in headlong confrontation with the police . |
| 9 | With regard to these countries , the study finds that it is important that they do not attempt to keep their existing inter-industry specialisation as many of them are in low value added and labour-intensive sectors , and therefore face strong competition from the LDCs . |
| 10 | Many of them are in Jamaican Creole , mixed to varying degrees with English . |
| 11 | Most of them are in legal trouble . |
| 12 | The operating theatres at RAF Wroughton were built last year … but only three of them are in regular use . |
| 13 | But many of them are in dire need of repair . |
| 14 | The USSR , as before , remained ready to further its own interests wherever it could , and those interests were not always in agreement with those of Western governments — nor had they been in tsarist times . |
| 15 | They are into philosophical time , producing work once a year or less . |
| 16 | They are beyond earthly intercession and in the everlasting arms of God . |
| 17 | Is this because they think they are without inhumane behaviour ? |
| 18 | Student nurses , other than those on Project 2000 , with apprentices and YT trainees , will be able to claim council tax benefit if they are on low incomes . |
| 19 | There is no difference , either , between what we have under the community charge and under the rates in respect of identifying people who are entitled to help through social security benefit , if they are on low incomes . |
| 20 | This can be most effective if this device can be dedicated to the file , but is still useful in normal multi-programming ; there is certain to be constant arm movement if the file and its high-level indexes are stored on the same device , while this is less likely if they are on separate devices . |
| 21 | If the authorities do not respond to the opinions of the players then they are on dangerous ground and their motives might be questioned . |
| 22 | According to Berkeley Systems Design International 's Peter Collinson , based at the company 's Canterbury , Kent subsidiary in the UK , BSDI ‘ are relying on the Berkeley statement ’ that there is no AT&T code within BSD Networking Release 2 , the basis of its BSD/386 product ( UX No 370 ) , and as such they feel they are on solid ground ( see front page ) . |
| 23 | We have just heard the hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) dismiss the argument that people pay more income tax and VAT if they are on high incomes . |
| 24 | And , if you do believe in the continuation of the spirit , you have the added comfort of knowing that there is no such thing as ‘ never ’ and that people do not stop loving one another just because they are on different planes . |
| 25 | It is fun to dig out a nice long briar stem from the hedgerow for this purpose , but how can you be sure about what you are getting or whether two identical buds will behave the same as each other when they are on different stock stems ? |
| 26 | Many patients with substantial deformities remain asymptomatic , but they are at increased risk of neurological damage with the passage of time . |
| 27 | Surely all seats should be numbered and tickets allocated for individual seats as they are at other sporting and entertainment events . |
| 28 | Their shells provide them with valuable protection but like all armoured species they are at certain disadvantages — they are nearly always less mobile , less flexible , and suffer the consequences . |
| 29 | When the snake 's mouth is shut they lie flat , but when the jaws are opened wide to strike , the two upper teeth that supply the venom are pivoted down through about go degrees , so that they are at right angles to the top of the head . |
| 30 | Lie flat , bend the knees then straighten the legs upwards so that they are at right angles to your body . |