Example sentences of "[adj] they are " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , they 're a few years old them are . |
| 2 | If they are exclusively narrative they are useless for song writing . |
| 3 | In this they are quite promiscuous and unselective and tendons will join up with whatever muscle they find at their end . |
| 4 | In this they are not alone . |
| 5 | ‘ In this they are probably more in tune with reality than are the present byelaws . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ And after this they are all saying that they want to come back again . |
| 7 | Like this they are often easier to handle in the vice or on the bench . |
| 8 | For all this they are being paid a fee . |
| 9 | If they fail in this they are likely to be ineffective and encourage forms of organisation and control that are essentially unprofessional in their character and consequences . |
| 10 | In this they are helped by the large number of independent menswear retailers across the Channel , small shops which have individual identity . |
| 11 | In this they are unlike medical researchers ; for example the Ethical Committee of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne monitors research with human subjects from a medical ethical perspective . |
| 12 | They are very useful " shorthand " descriptions and are only troublesome if you read or use them unthinkingly or as precise rather than generalised descriptions of the past ; this they are not . |
| 13 | ‘ Mind you , like this they are a challenge . |
| 14 | With little possibility of much fulfilment in this world , they look to the next ; they are for ever visiting temples and mosques ( for this they are required to revert to their male clothes ) and going on pilgrimage to Hindu and Muslim shrines over the subcontinent . |
| 15 | This they are doing at their own speed through a process of education and development , ensuring that Oman is run by Omanis , and not by foreign powers with distant interests . |
| 16 | And because of this they are empowered . |
| 17 | It seems BNFL is doing just that and I also welcome the fact that on a day like this they are letting someone like me make an input , ’ she added . |
| 18 | We do accuse the Liberal Democrats of jumping on the bandwagon at a late stage , but in this they are running true to form and they are confusing the issue by doing their own irrelevant thing . |
| 19 | I hope the negotiation with Norfolk will give us that opportunity and the negotiations with the Department of Transport as well , we must not leave them out , this they are crucial to the solution of the entirety of these province . |
| 20 | What you describe does sound a little bit like a chicken and egg situation from the point of view that I think you were saying that erm many teachers are ill-equipped , actually , to teach erm physics , perhaps , and chemistry , whereas they are a little bit better able to get across fundamental ideas in biology , and in a sense because of this they are going to produce another generation who perhaps have very ill-founded ideas of these basic sciences and so on and so forth , and somehow one 's got to cut into this cycle and actually improve it , improve the output somehow . |
| 21 | What you describe does sound a little bit like a chicken and egg situation from the point of view that I think you were saying that erm many teachers are ill-equipped , actually , to teach erm physics , perhaps , and chemistry , whereas they are a little bit better able to get across fundamental ideas in biology , and in a sense because of this they are going to produce another generation who perhaps have very ill-founded ideas of these basic sciences and so on and so forth , and somehow one 's got to cut into this cycle and actually improve it , improve the output somehow . |
| 22 | As pits become deeper they must also become wider in order to prevent the sides from becoming so steep they are unstable . |
| 23 | The more striking the colours , the easier they are to remember — no predator is likely to forget these particular insects . |
| 24 | ‘ Objectives are like targets , ’ says Richmond , ‘ the nearer they are , the easier they are to hit . ’ |
| 25 | And they while they reckon condoms , by far the most popular form of contraception for teenagers , are sensible they are victims of their own self-consciousness because they are too afraid to buy them . |
| 26 | They seem to think that they 've got to prove how manly they are . |
| 27 | Come on , go through some of them and I 'll tell you how how crap they are . |
| 28 | Just check their influences and you get an idea as to how open-minded they are when it comes to plying their act , as Rob offers . |
| 29 | ‘ These people want to show how brave they are . |
| 30 | It may become clear they are likely to have a wet night before or after an event . |