Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [coord] they [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are so faint and they only show up because of the long time exposure . |
| 2 | Horses are not stupid and they soon grasp how best to avoid hard graft ! |
| 3 | The results — see Table 4.3 — are not conclusive but they certainly do not clearly support any suggestion that action clients were more problematic . |
| 4 | They are spiritually awake and they sometimes put us to shame because they seem to make strides so fast that we have a job to keep up with them , they want to do this , they want to do that , they get baptized they want to auxiliary pioneer and before you know where the , where you are they 're in the regular pioneer ranks , and that 's lovely to see is n't it ? |
| 5 | Er , there may be one there may have been one that failed , I 'm not sure but they probably did a resit and got through in September . |
| 6 | The other awards , featured on page 15 , may be more prestigious but they certainly wo n't be more hotly contested . |
| 7 | You 'll be pleased to hear that the shavings were only temporary and they now have extra space and a fully carpeted floor ! |
| 8 | While the press welcomed The Big Wheel with open arms , the public were less enthusiastic and they soon fell victim to overwhelming , or should that be underwhelming , apathy . |
| 9 | Oxford 's Elizabethan and Stuart fishermen were not poor but they never rose to prominence in the city , despite being well-connected on occasion . |
| 10 | Clouthier 's policies were frequently ill-defined but they nevertheless brought back into the political debate conservative ideas that had been scorned since the 1917 Mexican revolution . |
| 11 | Bob Martin , from the Darlington Milk Buyers , said customers had been very generous and they still had more to collect . |
| 12 | Feats as daring as those shown on the frescoes and sealstones are certainly possible and they probably were really performed , but it seems likely that they were carefully choreographed and presented to make them seem as dangerous as possible . |
| 13 | The deaths in disasters like Hillsborough are certainly tragic but they also fall into the realms of normal human experience . |
| 14 | The state of mind of day-dream escapers was not simple and they both believed in their plans and knew quite well that they would never carry them out at the same time . |