Example sentences of "[conj] it be a [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a lot to be said for the modern falconry centres — anything that helps people to appreciate birds of prey is a good thing as far as I 'm concerned — although it 's a shame they have to be turned into tourist attractions . |
| 2 | He says that it 's a situation they find unacceptable . |
| 3 | It allows parents to see that the process is not at all mysterious and that it is a device they can use themselves in future for other problems . |
| 4 | They 're singing gold-rush songs at the tops of their voices in the dayniter and it 's a wonder they have n't all rocked the train right off the rails , with the noise and the booze . ’ |
| 5 | He says there are lots of tourists and it 's a shame they just come for that . |
| 6 | The foot soldiers came up in rows , yelling and dancing and it was a marvel they were not ridden down , as the cavalry seemed to dash right into them . |
| 7 | People were using the bottle and litter banks and it was a pity they were often left in need of emptying . |
| 8 | The common secret of their fiction , in brief , was to put Wodehouse 's gaiety to a serious purpose , and it was a secret they were happy as strangers to share . |
| 9 | And it was a challenge they eagerly accepted . |
| 10 | At least out here they had to play according to some sort of standard of fairness , even if it was a standard they could change as they went along according to how it suited them ( like doubling the bus fares just after he 'd found that job way out in Brentford ) , but in prison , even more so than in a mental hospital , there were no real limits to what they could do to him . |
| 11 | Having heard that , and secondly due to your patience er through your patience getting clarification that it the borough could if it wished allocate its sixty hectares under this structure plan policy outside the town centres and that things that then took place in town centres would be extra , it 's not something they have to do but it 's a freedom they would have in their local plan , having heard those two things , the concern I 've got that even at sixty hectares , Harrogate 's allocation was too small erm really recedes very quickly sir , and would completely disappear and here Mr Allenby and I are at one , |
| 12 | But it 's a prospect they view with equanimity , especially club coach John Lowe . |
| 13 | But it was a haste they paid for dearly in emotional terms . |
| 14 | He and Warnie , for example , had decided that they would erect a memorial window to their parents in St Mark 's , but it was a decision they quickly came to regret when the Lewis , Hamilton and Ewart cousins all weighed in with suggestions of what should go into the window . |
| 15 | Sometimes younger people consider this to be nothing more than morbid indulgence , and refuse to listen , mainly because it is a subject they do not care to think about . |