Example sentences of "[be] they [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | Ah these are them anyway , cos them er curtains that were up there for ages were a right mess |
| 2 | Where are them then ? |
| 3 | what are them like ? banns banns |
| 4 | These are them there . |
| 5 | It might be them downstairs . |
| 6 | That could be them now . |
| 7 | They used to have big windows , but they used to a all be them there little tiny ones like that . |
| 8 | I 'm them over . |
| 9 | Shareholders are right to wonder whether , if business is going to be that good , it should be they rather than their managers who make the killing . |
| 10 | As figures be the instruments of ornament in euery language , so be they also in a sorte abuses or rather trespasses in speach , because they passe the ordinary limits of common vtterance , and be occupied of purpose to deceiue the eare and also the minde , drawing it from plainnesse and simplicitie to a certaine doublenesse whereby our talke is the more guilefull & abusing . |
| 11 | Also , that the churches at home , of whatever church or denomination we are to be they also can own , not just in the World Council of Churches . |
| 12 | Whatever direction these problems ( often the consequence of faulty discipline ) take , the children — be they overly assertive or submissive — are seldom happy . |
| 13 | I urge my right hon. and hon. Friends — be they pro or anti-European fanatics — to remember that voters will not support a party that is riven by doubts or dissent . |
| 14 | One reason may be they way the information is presented to them and the way the offer is made . |
| 15 | The answer to this dreadful conundrum , for both Donnison and Fairbairns , is to elevate the central issue of women 's dependants and to increase benefits for them such that , where women do have dependants — be they very young or very old — women also have a considerable income . |
| 16 | Confident youth may never imagine a world like this in a million Sundays , but these pictures tell it like it is for by far the majority of us at one time or other ; and I defy anyone to say that it could not be them — be they so lucky as still to be climbing when approaching 80 . |
| 17 | However strange such beliefs might be they too have a rhetorical context . |
| 18 | Are they secretly debunking today 's short-sighted rave fashions by reviving the dinosaur antics of Tangerine Dream and Focus ? |
| 19 | How much are they nowadays ? |
| 20 | Casual workers are rarely paid when absent because of sickness , nor are they normally entitled to paid holidays or other paid time off . |
| 21 | How much are they normally ? |
| 22 | I mean , who funds them , are they completely charitable , or |
| 23 | Are the Physical Education and Music departments only concerned with intensive coaching of small elites or are they also encouraging all pupils to improve their performances ? |
| 24 | Are they incredibly expensive . |
| 25 | Are they partly due to new , over-strenuous training ? |
| 26 | A downward spiral of drink and drugs eventually affects both twins — Elliot believes that not only are they partly telepathic but also that they share chemical effects in their blood streams . |
| 27 | Are they properly protected ? ’ |
| 28 | the speaker frequently repeats the same syntactic form several times over , as this fairground inspector does : I look at fire extinguishers + I look at fire exits + I look at what gangways are available + I look at electric cables what + are they properly earthed + are they properly covered |
| 29 | the speaker frequently repeats the same syntactic form several times over , as this fairground inspector does : I look at fire extinguishers + I look at fire exits + I look at what gangways are available + I look at electric cables what + are they properly earthed + are they properly covered |
| 30 | Are they already very excited ? — in which case they 'll need something calming . |