Example sentences of "but they are [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one in Kenya underestimates the amount of thought still necessary to get these proposals from the discussion to the operational stage , but they are on the table and they are exciting . |
| 2 | Various links have been proposed and discussed , but they are on the whole more revealing of the disparity between the two problems than of their convergence . |
| 3 | Rare words like whimsey and winter-crack do occur , but they are of the kind one may suppose to have local dialect currency . |
| 4 | I still have one or two but they are near the end of their useful life . |
| 5 | These are not necessarily new , but they are among the best published in recent years . |
| 6 | They are not far from the south celestial pole , and they never rise over any part of Europe or the United States , but they are among the most familiar objects of the night sky to Australians , South Africans and New Zealanders . |
| 7 | Worthington stressed : ‘ They are not world football powers by any means but they are among the most difficult places to go looking for results . |
| 8 | But they are in the valley . |
| 9 | Chemical reactions in our body involving oxygen give us the energy we need to live ( some types of bacteria , anaerobic bacteria , curl up and die when exposed to oxygen , but they are in the minority ) . |
| 10 | When kept as individuals in a mixed community they can bully other smaller species but they are in the main more peaceable than the average marine fish . |
| 11 | ‘ But they are in the first two heats so we will know our fate very early . ’ |
| 12 | Admittedly , Air Force Generals and Admirals are unlikely to be very important financially , but they are from the point of view of prestige and power and would , I should think , carry a disproportionate amount of clout . |
| 13 | These are by no means the only mechanisms but they are amongst the most important . |