Example sentences of "they be [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when they are off the sledges the dogs are kept apart . |
| 2 | They are between the hills and the Forth and are sparing nothing in Lothian , from the east coast to Dunedin . |
| 3 | With a lurch they are above the trees and climbing steeply , Paul pressed back into his seat . |
| 4 | They are about the lives of women in Bengal . |
| 5 | Here again policy and practice in the inner city are as much about the way we chose to conceptualise social problems as they are about the experiences of inner city communities themselves . |
| 6 | While a formal prospectus is normally issued for each degree course , such statements vary considerably in the amount of detail they give , and how explicit they are about the aims of the course . |
| 7 | Is there an in-built element for wear and tear included in the pricing and are all participants fully covered by insurance during the time they are on the premises ? |
| 8 | They are on the bonnets of the jeeps , some are clinging precariously onto the sides as both vehicles speed away through the farmyard and out into the road . |
| 9 | ‘ Highlander 's vision is to make people who feel they are on the margins , believe that they are in the centre . |
| 10 | Equally , they are on the margins of land law conceptually , since both rely on the archaic significance , in common law culture , of possession as the basis of property rights . |
| 11 | Tests have since shown that when the weak-tabby European and African wild cats are crossed with one another , the hybrid kittens develop coat patterns which are much closer to the tabby patterns of modern domestic cats than they are to the markings of either of their parents . |
| 12 | Von Tunzelmann , remarking that prices had the greater influence on real wage trends over this period , finds that the indices available are much closer to each other than they are for the periods on either side . |
| 13 | Yet … such concepts as ‘ quantitative and qualitative superiority ’ , ‘ nuclear war as a continuation of politics ’ and ‘ victory in a nuclear war ’ are as much a feature , if not more so , of the political-military literature of the [ Chief Political Directorate ] as they are of the journals and books which are more clearly military . |
| 14 | With Japanese car manufacturers investing heavily in Britain to ensure they are inside the walls if the internal market turns into Fortress Europe , there is a possibility that Britain will become a net car exporter once again , a development which , more than any other , would help put the manufacturing balance of payments back in the black . |
| 15 | The warehouses are organised in a hierarchical manner with a central one buying from satellite warehouses , which are situated in the poorer residential areas of Cali , so that they are near the homes of the garbage pickers . |
| 16 | The arms say the light of day in a short sleeved dress and they are like the arms of a prize fighter . |
| 17 | Yet they are like the cases which follow in that they do not directly ask the trustee to do anything , but none the less cause an obligation under trust to arise in him . |
| 18 | Each image is like a candle and it is for us to embroider our minds so that they are like the constellations of the heavens — Rumi 's harvest of stars . |
| 19 | Although ‘ classical ’ phoneme theory does not allow allophonic overlapping and approximation without merger , the Belfast research suggests that overlap and merger of phones in particular environments are common , and that they are amongst the patterns noticed when linguistic change is observed in progress . |
| 20 | The relationship between soil temperature and root longevity needs to be more firmly established , and rates of fine root mortality may not be as predictable in other ecosystems as they are in the forests we studied . |
| 21 | This implies that when the balance is temporarily favourable to the working class , the demands that it espouses , whether or not they are in the interests of the dominant class , may be translated into state policy — for example , on social welfare ( see Gough 1979 ; Esping-Andersen and Korpi 1984 ) , workers ' rights and so on . |
| 22 | Which is rather like saying that slum-dwellers would rather live in the slums than anywhere else — there they are in the slums , are n't they ? |
| 23 | Other ‘ domatia ’ are more substantial structures and are known from over 400 species ( half in America , fewest in Africa ) in over 30 genera of trees and lianes : in A cacia they are in stipular thorns but in the rest they are in the stems , where the stems are sometimes swollen as in some species of Clerodendrum ( Verbenaceae ) . |
| 24 | Modern penitentials wo n't be of much use to future historians of the twentieth century , but eleventh-century penitentials might be , rich as they are in the prejudices of our enlightened age — particularly the inferior status of women . |
| 25 | But such trends are clearer in the minds of men than they are in the rocks . |
| 26 | In ‘ The Bathers ’ at the Tate the figures are clustered as they are in the decorations . |
| 27 | Everything was seized … they are in the hands of the KGB . ’ |
| 28 | cos they er they 're bound to be cheaper than they are in the shops . |
| 29 | They are among the performers on a new LP titled The Exotic Beatles . |
| 30 | Er that and those are what I got that 's what I got with those and they 're with the parcels di in that envelope so That was to send the catalogue back er the other one |