Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] they [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm because in fact quite funny seeing they 're all being er to laugh erm see what servants in . |
| 2 | An analysis of high-altitude lakes in New Hampshire in the 1980s revealed that 110 out of 214 were more transparent than they were 30–40 years ago . |
| 3 | After all these statements he announces , ‘ If I were disposed to stir your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage , I should do Brutus and Cassius wrong for they are honourable men . ’ |
| 4 | They 're frightening until they 're eight weeks old |
| 5 | In general the difficulties can be categorised as those which were hard because they were unpleasant tasks in themselves ( eg dealing with sickness or incontinence , washing soiled clothes ) ; those which were hard because of the dementia sufferer 's behaviour or characteristics ( eg he or she was uncooperative , aggressive , heavy ) , and those which were hard because of features of the carer 's life or characteristics ( eg the journey to the dementia sufferer 's home was a long one , the carer 's spouse disliked her helping , she had no washing machine , she found it hard to manage caring tasks as well as her work ) . |
| 6 | But they had kept her too long and she had n't wanted to appear rude because they were nice people , and now she was very , very late . |
| 7 | Rosenthal speculates that pepper and chocolate are classed as masculine because they are stronger flavours than salt and vanilla , while Chevrolet is feminine because of its sound ( it 's a longer word than Ford , has an open vowel at the end , connotes ‘ Frenchness ’ ) and knife is masculine because of the association with aggression . |
| 8 | The people in the street outside may tell the market researchers that they are more confident than they were six months ago , but that does not take them into the shop , put their money over the counter or pay the staff wages of the retailer . |
| 9 | Businessmen are feeling more confident than they were three months ago in 10 of the 14 countries covered by Dun & Bradstreet 's latest survey of sales expectations . |
| 10 | I was talking to a friend of mine actually on Monday who is erm parti partially Indian and come from India and from Calcutta and she is high caste but she 's a Catholic as well so she 's her attitude 's different she 's lived in England most of her life but she ca n't get over the attitude of some of her relatives in India to the poor because they 're lower caste . |
| 11 | You can really cut down the risk in fucking by using condoms as long as they 're good quality and used properly . |
| 12 | As long as they are disinterested punters rather than caring proprietors , institutional shareholders will tend to take the money and run during takeover bids rather than backing incumbent management . |
| 13 | ‘ The conservation of invertebrates is important because they are good indicators of the quality of the habitat ’ , said Dr Holmes . |
| 14 | The women are lonely because they are professional women and they have no sustenance . |
| 15 | And patients feel confused and angry at the differences between hospitals , unsure whether they are enduring isolation unnecesarily or being exposed to undue risk . |
| 16 | Every few years the gap is filled with a useful directory , but handy as they are such titles rarely survive for more than three editions : witness the demise of the Antique Collectors ' Club 's sadly missed Guide to Specialist Nurseries . |
| 17 | Anglers say it is highly unlikely as they are cold-blooded creatures . |
| 18 | Mission work to civilise the slaves and the extension of responsibilities to the labourers for their own work were only thought likely to be successful if they were cumulative experiences for the slaves . |
| 19 | For people who become disabled when they are young adults or when middle-aged , the first 10 to 15 years are usually marked by a steady increase in satisfaction levels , followed by declining satisfaction after 20 to 30 years ( Zarb et al . , |
| 20 | Indeed , more than 30 per cent of clients are women who are generally more successful as they are better listeners and tend not to rush at obstacles . |
| 21 | But a report from the London Society of Chartered Accountants says that firms among the 250 quizzed are even less optimistic than they were four months ago about the general business outlook . |
| 22 | ‘ Houses are now as affordable as they were 10 years ago . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Houses are now as affordable as they were 10 years ago . ’ |
| 24 | Most of the pilots were unconcerned if they were five feet or more to the side on their first attempts . |
| 25 | The French are not so polite as they were 15 years ago . |