Example sentences of "they be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is simply that interest rates have not been an important part of their own calculations of credit costliness ( nor , indeed , have they been at all prominent in credit advertising ) . |
| 2 | The USSR , as before , remained ready to further its own interests wherever it could , and those interests were not always in agreement with those of Western governments — nor had they been in tsarist times . |
| 3 | Hm , there see , they are over staffed , there 's no doubt about it , are n't they ? |
| 4 | Anyone can start giving blood as long as they are between 18 and 60 years old and in good health . |
| 5 | Some are management development students , they are between twenty-eight and thirty-six years old and they stay here for fifteen weeks . |
| 6 | Clearly , the divisions among this group of short-term markets will be even less watertight than they are between these and the capital markets . |
| 7 | The recipes do n't actually tell the adventurers what the potions do , of course ( although an Alchemist among the adventurers is allowed an Int test with a +20 bonus to guess the general nature of the effects ) , but they are worth 150 GCs apiece to an alchemist . |
| 8 | It would be wrong to disregard them and they are worth some special study . |
| 9 | Such features are usually called raised beaches if they are at a low level , approximately below 50 m ( 150 ft ) OD , and marine terraces , platforms , benches or erosion surfaces if they are above this level . |
| 10 | In one such experiment , L. R. Donaldson and G. E. Allen took 72,000 young salmon at the ‘ fingerling ’ stage ( when they are about one year old ) from the Soos Creek Hatchery in Washington ( for locations see Figure 4.5 ) and divided them into two groups . |
| 11 | We think they are about right , they would provide for an appropriate level of development . |
| 12 | We ca n't we devise publishing concepts which capture children 's imaginations in such a way that they are confident to spend as much time talking about what they have been reading as they are about last night 's episode of ‘ Neighbours ’ ? |
| 13 | I just ca n't fathom what they are about any more . ’ |
| 14 | Books of reference that state that he was born in 1885 in Devon are mistaken , as they are about some other features of his career . |
| 15 | If celibacy and the life of professed religious women are about anything at all , they are about this hidden strand both within the Christian tradition in particular and in women 's lives in general . |
| 16 | They are into philosophical time , producing work once a year or less . |
| 17 | They are under some degree of political control but they also need to have enough autonomy to carry out complex productive activity in an efficient way . |
| 18 | They are beyond earthly intercession and in the everlasting arms of God . |
| 19 | Is this because they think they are without inhumane behaviour ? |
| 20 | Student nurses , other than those on Project 2000 , with apprentices and YT trainees , will be able to claim council tax benefit if they are on low incomes . |
| 21 | There is no difference , either , between what we have under the community charge and under the rates in respect of identifying people who are entitled to help through social security benefit , if they are on low incomes . |
| 22 | The machines are very good quality , Schaller-style but presumably Gotoh , gold-plated — as they are on all O.C. Smith guitars — and dead smooth to use . |
| 23 | In fact they are on all of them , looks silly does n't it ? |
| 24 | Hence , their views , based as they are on personal first-hand experiences , form an important body of evidence about whether or to what extent Britain lives up to its reputation as a liberal democratic country . |
| 25 | The autoset lever overrides the set levers when they are on 1 ( but not when they are on 0 ) . |
| 26 | He found he could dowse the ‘ charge ’ in a stone , the wavelength being in the radio section of the electromagnetic spectrum , that this became fixed by electromagnetism , and that the germination of plants could be affected if they are on one of the ‘ charge lines ’ . |
| 27 | Consider this : every time a writer/ performer sells an album , their royalty earns them around 60p ( assuming they are on 10 per cent ) . |
| 28 | The win was particularly timely for Ford assembly line workers John Hobson , 52 , and Kenny Berwick , 49 , as they are on short-time . |
| 29 | This can be most effective if this device can be dedicated to the file , but is still useful in normal multi-programming ; there is certain to be constant arm movement if the file and its high-level indexes are stored on the same device , while this is less likely if they are on separate devices . |
| 30 | They are on neither side . |