Example sentences of "they [prep] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Marx is trying to develop a theory which will apply universally , and the fact ( if it is a fact ) that individuals who live in different societies do not share constant properties is enough to disqualify them from being the rock on which social explanations are founded . |
| 2 | It was being said quite openly on the factory floor that the only place Clasper would lead them to was the end of the dole queue . |
| 3 | We give the child two pencils of equal length side-by-side , and he correctly judges them to be the ‘ same size ’ . |
| 4 | Casual references by our political leaders to what seems to them to be the quite recent past can be lost on a young audience . |
| 5 | He reported diligent perusal of the Dictionary and Figures and believed them to be the ‘ compleatest work of that kind extant ’ , but expressed his regret that many American plants had been omitted : he hoped to remedy this by sending specimens of growing plants within the next few years . |
| 6 | Plus ça change : in the 1990s these words ( apart from their dated gender references ) remain as relevant and as enlightening as in the 1970s and at the beginning of the century : the problem of poverty is the condition of the normal man [ and woman ] in normal circumstances , neither better nor worse off than his [ or her ] neighbours , not of those whose failings qualify them to be the text for the moralist , and who are no more common in the manual working-classes than in other sections of the society . |
| 7 | Whether conscious or not of their own envy , the people in the most difficulty are those who feel they have been born the wrong sex — suspicious , or even quite clear , that their parents desperately wanted them to be the boy or girl they were not . |
| 8 | We used them as demos but we cut them to be the real thing . ’ |
| 9 | He mistrusted their new attendants , Dighton and Slaughter , believing them to be the tools of his enemies . |
| 10 | French workmen fleeing from the dock were fired on because the Germans thought this was an organised rising , the explosions coming so long after the raid that they took them to be the work of the Free French Resistance Movement and threatened reprisals if the ‘ revolt ’ did not stop . |
| 11 | This led him to assert that , in spite of ‘ the gross and grievous abominations ’ of Rome , ‘ yet touching those main parts of Christian truth wherein they constantly still persist , we gladly acknowledge them to be the family of Jesus Christ ’ . |
| 12 | Possibly the earliest mention of what are probably Anglo-Saxon graves is that by the thirteenth-century chronicler Roger of Wendover in his Flores Historiarum where he describes the excavation by monks of St Albans in 1178 of ten human skeletons at Redbourne , Hertfordshire , believing some of them to be the bones of St Amphibalus ( Hewlett 1886 , 115 ) . |
| 13 | They have been chosen for the posts in other parts of the country because their employers consider them to be the best people for these particular jobs . |
| 14 | For similar reasons , the new sociologists of deviance were hostile to what appeared to them to be the reduction of crime to a ‘ technical ’ problem . |
| 15 | As promised this July , Fujitsu Ltd has released its new VPP500 series of vector parallel processors — claiming them to be the most powerful supercomputers in the world . |
| 16 | They must be empowered to demand excellence in the courses that they attend and realise that their education is not a favour to them but a means of preparing them to be the sort of doctors that we want in the future . |
| 17 | These phenomena are observed too often for them to be the product of the individual 's development alone . |
| 18 | That must vary from individual to individual and there is no need to say that simply to hold these views ( if one believes them to be the revealed will of God ) is in itself misogynist . |
| 19 | Both Carole and Susan agree that the above proposal appears to them to be the most workable . |
| 20 | And I believe them to be the some of the nicest maps I 've ever seen . |
| 21 | There were mediaeval chroniclers , working from monasteries and sometimes from the courts , and those chroniclers were producing history which was an attempt as it were to set down what seemed to them to be the most important things that were happening at the time , with a few asides . |
| 22 | But I have known many people — salespeople , surgeons , journalists , scholars , even musicians — who did have them without being the least bit ‘ entrepreneurial . ’ |