Example sentences of "they are [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Most of them are in the outer and inner narthices , on the walls , lunettes and in the ceiling shallow domes and ribbed cupolas . |
| 4 | ‘ There are adequate championship courses in Britain and many of them are in the top hundred in the world . |
| 5 | As well as the Ryder Cup sponsorship , they are into the Asian and Australian classics , and the Caribbean Pro-Am as well as many amateur events . |
| 6 | As one who admires much of what WTA has done and enjoys watching the best women players compete against each other , because the entertainment value they produce can often be tremendous , I was sad to see that apparently they still do not appreciate how relatively well off they are under the present set-up and how much they could stand to lose from open warfare in the game . |
| 7 | These essential components of a fair defence would not be available to a defendant , as they are beyond the compulsory judicial process of US federal courts . ’ |
| 8 | They are beyond the visible spectrum but we do not have to make our observations with the naked eye and there are ways in which y-rays can be detected to form an image pattern . |
| 9 | The fighting in Mostar and central Bosnia has forced the UN Security Council to condemn the Bosnian Croats , despite their claims that they are on the defensive . |
| 10 | They are on the other side of the valley . ’ |
| 11 | So valuable is it that some scientists regard it as a scent and as soon as they detect it , they know that they are on the right track . |
| 12 | Work done by the Senegalese group has convinced Papert that they are on the right track . |
| 13 | For they are on the right track to the discovery of treasures steeped in antiquity and an atmosphere charged with the presence of the past . |
| 14 | Ca n't help thinking that they are on the right track and it 's we who are barking up the wrong tree . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A great proportion of our farmers , large and small , know in their hearts that they are on the wrong road , but have neither the wisdom nor the courage to strike out on radically new lines . |
| 17 | Politicians can only be trusted when they think that they are on the winning side and will ignore any democratic mechanism to prove that they are ‘ right ’ . |
| 18 | And on the landward side of all the trenches ( except those between the Solomons and the New Hebrides , where they are on the seaward side ) are the island chains — Japan to New Zealand — whose birth is in whole or in part a consequence of all that colliding and jostling beneath the blue horizons . |
| 19 | They are on the doomed planet below . |
| 20 | On Thursday they are at the annual meeting of the British Red Cross , Cleveland County branch , at Cleveland Scientific Institute , Middlesbrough . |
| 21 | Media influence on perceptions is likely to depend upon whether they are at the pure perception end of the spectrum or at the margin between perceptions and attitudes . |
| 22 | Many institutions of less than 150 , either free standing or in collaboration with others , have offered and will continue to offer a range of courses well matched to the needs of the student population as they are at the present time . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Mount the fitting either directly to the lugs at each side of the box if they are at the standard 51mm ( 2″ ) centres ; otherwise use screws and wallplugs as before . |
| 25 | They may stand outside of high fashion , but in context they are at the leading edge . ’ |
| 26 | Now they are at the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham tonight . |
| 27 | So far I have only described what might be termed the ‘ normal ’ , or perhaps ‘ regular ’ , inspectors , concerned as they are with the operational and engineering aspects of the job . |
| 28 | Overall the cost of a funeral often comes as a big shock to people and the vicar 's fees , peripheral as they are to the main bill , come in for lots of cynical comments like ‘ Even at a time like this , the church is making money . ’ |
| 29 | Whatever I designed would have to take account of circumstances as they are for the hard-pressed teaching population . |
| 30 | 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 . |