Example sentences of "they be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again the response to the violent forging through the press and public outside the court by the accused 's ‘ minders ’ had they been the heavies of more traditional villains is open to speculation . |
| 2 | And perhaps we might imagine that they are the same but different . |
| 3 | No doubt they mean well where the arts are concerned , he wrote , but for that reason they are the biggest menace . |
| 4 | Sometimes these accidents are caused by laziness , but more often they are the result of someone not realising the significance of doing things the right way . |
| 5 | The college should have as its prime concern the nurture of ethics and integrity ; they are the core of any professions . |
| 6 | They are the ones first called to read the scriptures , and offer the priestly blessings whereby the people are blessed of God — another key aspect of their office and work . |
| 7 | At any rate , they are the best marks that were to appear on his performance schedule over the next four years , when his average ran at 56.4 per cent . |
| 8 | Little wonder there was ‘ intellectual disorder ’ — if that is the correct word for daily thought stymied by explicit threats of destruction ; ‘ a state of mind fundamentally disturbed ’ — if they are the mots justes for those who doubt whether they will be able to put their professional training into practice ; ‘ bordering on the neurotic ’ — if that is an accurate description for lives lived under the fear of total extinction in the mushroom cloud . |
| 9 | They are the Saints ( the Lamed-vov tsadihim , the 36 saints ) who perpetuate the principles of compassion and kindness which sustain life . |
| 10 | In fact , it does n't matter what the thought is , what predicate I ascribe to them , just that they are the object of some kind of thought . |
| 11 | That they are the victims and hostages |
| 12 | They are horribly expensive but to my mind they are the best . |
| 13 | Can certain individuals be directed in such a way that they stand out from the mass because they are the tellers of the story , the chief exponents in the drama or theme ? |
| 14 | They are the verbs which should initiate the style of movement needed to sustain a ballet . |
| 15 | At present they are the responsibility of thr brewery but a future leaseholder will have to look after them . |
| 16 | ‘ They are the quickest route to bankruptcy . |
| 17 | Both men are reporting what seem to them the facts of the case , and they are the more confident about doing so because no Englishman has arisen to rebut their arguments . |
| 18 | His attitude both to life and art , charming enough in him , when taken up by others as a general cultural ideal becomes something deadly , especially for the English , an intelligent but very lazy people , far too easily bored , and persuaded beyond argument that they are the Herrenvolk . |
| 19 | They are the expressions ‘ kit of tools ’ and ‘ job in hand ’ . |
| 20 | Warning that there was no single mechanism which would catapult Britain to economic strength , Mr Kinnock said : ‘ Research and development , transport and communications , science , education and training ; they are the priorities . |
| 21 | They are the productive base of our economy . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ As far as we are concerned , if nurses are in conflict with their employer - and they are the least-able section of our society to fight — it is incumbent upon workers to take a stand to support nurses and other workers . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Most of us use the booths at one time or another , and they are the obvious place to go if you need a picture for your identity card . ’ |
| 24 | In reality , of course , they are the result of a long chain of conscious decision making . |
| 25 | They are the product of a specific brief by land owners or developers , detailed ‘ design ’ by architects within that brief and approval by the local authority . |
| 26 | Given the conviction of Khmer Rouge members that they are the only people who can save Cambodia , few observers believe their commitment to multi-partyism would last for long . |
| 27 | ‘ They are the fault of the old-fashioned way in which it is run . |
| 28 | They are the guardians of a door of a house that belongs to me . |
| 29 | ‘ They are the ones who invited Mr Adams to address them just 500 yards from the Grand Hotel which some of us have cause to remember ; to address them less than two weeks after the time when , along the coast at Deal , 10 young musicians in the Royal Marines were foully murdered . |
| 30 | They are the first tests of legal reforms introduced two months ago to allow judges ' secrecy orders to be reviewed . |