Example sentences of "they be [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chief among them are her sister Georganne and actress Michelle Pfeiffer , a best pal since their hit movie The Witches Of Eastwick . |
| 2 | No , they are their allies . |
| 3 | Rawls often writes of individuals ' conceptions of the good as if they are their views of the good life for themselves . |
| 4 | Players can be real snobs about names , too , so they are their own worst enemies . |
| 5 | That they are their own sun |
| 6 | she was one of the first anyway , so er , but it took a long time before she had them , five years ' wait , and she said , that , at the last attempt she said to her husband that 's it now , if it does n't work this time , that 's it , I 'm not having any more attempts , that 's it definitely , and they had that successfully and that 's how they had the twins , so they 're her children , they are their children , it 's just they were fertilized outside the womb , in a glass dish it 's fascinating i n't it ? she said it 's really fascinating I can assure you I said oh I can see |
| 7 | I 'm not , I 'm not just blaming them all the time , I mean , the situation is , when they go out on the field , they are their own men , I ca n't do anything about there , I ca n't talk for them out there ; I can only put it on in training , and when they get out there , they 've got to do it theirselves . |
| 8 | Political polls account for only six per cent of the research industry 's business , but they are its most visible — and accountable — manifestation . |
| 9 | The Crime Survey is a victimisation study and its main conclusion is one that has been noted , in a less systematic way , many times before : working-class crime is a problem , and it is a problem for the working class , since they are its principal victims , as they are of all types of crime : |
| 10 | The sums of money that have to be paid for these efforts and sacrifices will be called either its money cost of production , or , for shortness , its expenses of production ; they are the prices which have to be paid in order to call forth an adequate supply of the efforts and waitings that are required for making it ; or , in other words , they are its supply price . |
| 11 | When Nietzsche is quoted directly as arguing that " tropes are not something that can be added or subtracted from language at will ; they are its truest nature " , de Man 's paraphrase seems innocuous : The mode of paraphrase frees de Man from the obligation of theoretical presence in his discourse while still allowing him to translate Nietzsche 's text into the terms of his own problematic . |
| 12 | They are her insurance , her financial independence , so they are worn in abundance , discussed without shame , admired or discarded , and sold . |
| 13 | The handmaids of the Everqueen are not mere courtiers ; they are her warrior guard — a hundred beautiful Elf-maids schooled in the arts of war till they exceed or even surpass the greatest of Elf knights with sword , bow and lance . |
| 14 | They are her stalwart supporters in a dosed , oppressive world . |
| 15 | And because she happens to live reasonably near a park , she walks Sandy or Sandy walks her in the park , she meets other dog walkers and they are her human contacts . |
| 16 | It is , emerges that they are her cousins and that Jane has inherited money from an uncle . |
| 17 | According to the Shellfish Association of Great Britain , they are our most popular seafood . |
| 18 | ‘ They are about half a mile or so away , ’ he replied , ‘ and , most important , they are our guns . |
| 19 | We partly weep for ourselves ; they are our vulnerable , helpless selves . ’ |
| 20 | Our own genes cooperate with one another , not because they are our own but because they share the same outlet — sperm or egg — into the future . |
| 21 | They are our mystical heritage and history of the sublime . |
| 22 | They are our emotions . |
| 23 | Nothing that they can do can alter the fact that they are our responsibility . |
| 24 | They are our human instincts , parts of the beings we are . |
| 25 | Our experience and understanding are shaped by our own minds , and necessarily so ; for they are our experience and our understanding . |
| 26 | That would not get us anywhere and they are our customers , ’ he said . |
| 27 | ‘ They are our conclusions , based on our own research , our own predispositions , our own framework , our own lack of preconceptions . |
| 28 | They are our guidebooks to what women want . |
| 29 | Now there 's no way I 'm gon na talk to tha he they are our major client . |
| 30 | They are our clients needs and expectations and our own needs and expectation and i interests . |