Example sentences of "they [be] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He points out that even at Poole the two spits are not aligned with each other as one would expect had they been remnants of a former baymouth bar . |
| 2 | Sankey ( the Lord Chancellor ) and J. H. Thomas survived longer than would have been likely had they been Conservatives . |
| 3 | The Code does not apply to offers for non-voting , non-equity share capital unless they are offers required by Rule 15 ( securities convertible into equity share capital ) . |
| 4 | The rent for the club room er five pound per go , a hundred and fifteen pound erm the Christmas social , we spent fif thirty five fifty one on the refreshments and seven eighty nine on the whisky , making a forty three forty expenditure the club trophies , we spent nineteen pound fifty this year and we saved a lot of money on that this year , we spent about a hundred and thirty to forty last year erm so we have got a quite a difference just trying to find last year 's erm there they are trophies , a hundred and sixteen pound we paid last year so have , we did save a lot of money by doing them ourselves more or less . |
| 5 | ‘ But they are cowards at heart and hang back until they are sure they are safe , even then leaving themselves a route for escape . |
| 6 | ‘ They are cowards because they must have realised she was quite seriously injured . |
| 7 | They are gods . ’ |
| 8 | Moreover , and perhaps even more significantly , among the men there is a rich spectrum of life represented : they are farmers , builders , merchants , kings , judges , stewards , doctors , bridegrooms , servants , sons , fathers , priests , publicans , rich men , poor men , thieves , fools , scoundrels . |
| 9 | They are cases in which only one type of disposition is involved , but it is then misdescribed as the other . |
| 10 | I consider that they are cases where payments were made to close a transaction and are to be treated as cases of voluntary payments . |
| 11 | They are cases in which a promise was made which was intended to create legal relations and which , to the knowledge of the person making the promise , was going to be acted on by the person to whom it was made , and which was in fact so acted on . |
| 12 | They are communities of interest , sharing opportunities and obligations . |
| 13 | They are communities in the sense that one has a sense of ‘ belonging ’ in them , and in the sense that Shetlanders belonging to each are said to be distinguishable by special characteristics in dialect or , less often ( and more humorously ) , by difference in mentality and general attitudes . |
| 14 | That surviving half-page on Alexandria with its three classes of people is memorable : the Egyptians , " an acute and civilized race " ; the mercenaries , " a numerous , rough and uncultivated set " ; and the Alexandrians themselves , " a people not genuinely civilized … but still superior to the mercenaries for though they are mongrels they came from a Greek stock and have not forgotten Greek customs " ( 34.14 ) . |
| 15 | Alcohol and drug misusers may fear approaching statutory agencies for help , especially if they are parents . |
| 16 | d ) In most cases they are parents . |
| 17 | ‘ The children will still be happy to be with animals when they are parents . |
| 18 | In a long stretch of vulnerable Asian land between Vietnam and Japan they are typhoons — the Chinese words for ‘ big wind ’ ; in the Philippines , which suffer each summer from the most dreadful storms , they are baguios ; on the west costs of Mexico and Central America , cordonazos ; and in north-western Australia , willy-willies . |
| 19 | Enzymes are protein molecules whose function is to speed up chemical reactions : that is , they are catalysts . |
| 20 | Almost none of they are boxers . |
| 21 | Warnings of eco-wars and the flight of hundreds of millions of refugees can not be dismissed as fantasies : they are probabilities in situations which become more and more apparent as the century nears its end . |
| 22 | Since they are probabilities , p 1 , P2 and P3 must satisfy . |
| 23 | But most overseas buyers of the clothes are not sports fans — they are slaves to the fashion for Americana . |
| 24 | Do I not face them as though they are slaves ? |
| 25 | ‘ Those who engage in and encourage secret plans and conspiracies may think they are patriots , but they are the worst enemies of their country . ’ |
| 26 | They are processes which , once started , end up producing a particular outcome at a later point in time . |
| 27 | Because they are mouthbrooders it does not matter if a male holds only a small or temporary territory , as the eggs are safe in the female 's mouth . |
| 28 | They can not be : they are mutuals , owned by their policyholders . |
| 29 | But prima facie the generous semantic account of their project is much more plausible , given that they are agents just like us except insofar as they can not hear . |
| 30 | They are agents pure and simple and not factors . ’ |