Example sentences of "they be [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 There is no shame in their situation and they are participating in the disintegration of the moral force of respectability which would once have shamed them within their own class and community .
32 ( 2 ) Byelaws made under subsection ( 1 ) above shall not have effect until they are confirmed by the Secretary of State , and the provisions of subsections ( 4 ) to ( 12 ) and ( 15 ) of section 202 of the Local Government ( Scotland ) Act 1973 and of section 204 of that Act shall , with any necessary modifications , apply in relation to byelaws to be made or made under this section as they apply in relation to byelaws to be made or made under that Act .
33 Although procedurally they are selected by the appointments secretary at Downing Street , in practice the Queen is asked for her informal approval before a nomination is made : the prime minister 's private secretary writes to the Queen 's private secretary saying ‘ the
34 A sale of goods is not prevented from being a sale by description by reason only that , being exposed for sale or hire , they are selected by the buyer . ’
35 ( p100 ) This is now given statutory effect by s13(3) of SGA 1979 which provides that : A sale of goods is not prevented from being a sale by description by reason only that , the goods being exposed for sale or hire , they are selected by the buyer .
36 They are selected in the same way as other recruits but not given a contract of employment .
37 And they may be torn three ways , between the practical direction they are getting in the school , the advice they are being given in college and by their teaching practice tutor , and their own developing sense of the kind of teacher they would or would not like to become .
38 ‘ There are far too many media people and they are getting in the way of everyone else .
39 Several hotel and leisure groups are already beginning to diversify into this field : they are aiming at the top and more lucrative end of the market , charging fees well above the DSS limits .
40 Privately , they are disturbed by the move , which follows the controversy last week when ITV delayed transmission of the Liverpool v Manchester United match .
41 Although I have stressed the importance of all children having access to the full primary curriculum , it must be recognised that some children do need special provision , more time , and/or extra help if they are to profit from the opportunity .
42 They are threatened by the spread of bigotry , but also by other conceptions of life — for example , those which look on originality , innovation , and diversity as luxuries which society can ill afford given the need for efficiency , productivity , or growth , or those which in a host of other ways depreciate freedom .
43 They are loved as the protectors of all beasts and birds .
44 But , he added ‘ While these people have a right to live as they want , they are infringing on the rights of other people .
45 given the circumstances and difficulties outlined above , it must be certain that the refusals will include perfectly good payers , simply because they are stamped with the same circumstantial warning signs as the bad payers .
46 We can now add that controlling ensures that the travellers know how well they are progressing along the route , how correct their map is , and what deviations , if any , they need to make to stay on course .
47 Policies with prefix letters PM or FM ( Motor Car ) , MC ( Motor Cycle ) or CM ( Commercial Vehicle — excluding policies numbered lower than 100,000 ) will qualify for a Special Discount of just under 6% where the policies have been in force continuously for at least three years when they are renewed during the year commencing 1st July 1981 .
48 Yamaha Electronics have recently released details of the new 1992 range of hi-fi separates and systems that they are bringing into the UK from the parent company .
49 Standards can be set , but arrangements for ensuring that they are maintained in the private sector are still inadequate .
50 Two decades earlier Louis XIV had put it more succinctly : " Nothing happens in the world which does not come under the cognizance of … a good ambassador " , while in the early eighteenth century a leading international lawyer wrote flatly of resident diplomats that " it is precisely for the purpose of getting information that they are maintained in the courts of friendly powers " .
51 Today , millions of Japanese may be unaware that they are dining on the namesake of their late military governor , ‘ Big Mac ’ .
52 Often they are cloaked in the respectability of scientific terminology or social acceptability .
53 The two are superficially rather different from one another , but they are united under the headings of ‘ coevolution ’ and ‘ genes as each others ’ environments ' .
54 They are united in the emphasis they place on the need to avoid all forms of censorship or control over cultural workers .
55 While there is , as you may know , considerable variation and disagreement among sociologists , they are united in the conviction that argument that is based on sound evidence is superior to argument based on false evidence , limited evidence , or no evidence .
56 ‘ The position of dairy farmers will best be safeguarded if they are united in the marketing of their produce and I have no doubt their new co-operative will become a reality in the near future . ’
57 Their combatant status is the same whether they are employed at the front or behind it …
58 They are employed at the moment at the university-run dental school which is due to close next year .
59 The basis of the whole exercise is the assumption that , in any ordinary human language , the set of terms which can be glossed as " father " , " mother " , " brother " , " sister " etc. , because of the way that they are employed within the context of the domestic family , is somehow primary and basic .
60 To take this initiative and extend it to include a range of interests which they can use , whether or not they are employed in the future , might help them to be on a more equal footing with their peers who have not been in public care .
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