Example sentences of "they be [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All of them are vulnerable to coastal erosion and are being nibbled away by the sea . |
| 2 | Remarkable that out of thirty people elected last May , fifteen of them are new to this Council , a staggering seventeen percent of the Council if you do it statistically . |
| 3 | The standardizing , regularizing , authoritative properties often assigned to print as a medium ( though many of them are inherent in any writing system ) could have full social effect only if they had this broad coherence with general developments in the social and labour processes , to which , however , print was not a mere ancillary , for it was one of the forms of such development . |
| 4 | Adherents of all of them are active in current debate , and the story is one of proliferation . |
| 5 | Much of them are unreclaimed to this day , as in Dorset , Hampshire and Surrey . |
| 6 | None of the patients interviews said they would have taken paracetamol had they been aware of this danger . |
| 7 | First the drummers come on — I may say that no women are allowed to take part in this ritual and the ladies here will perhaps agree with me that they are fortunate in that omission . |
| 8 | Yet they are distinct from general art history and criticism in their conscious introduction , if in varying ways , of active social concepts as necessary elements of description and analysis . |
| 9 | The implication is that if college graduates are relatively weak on inferred ability , they should ensure that they are strong on relevant competence . |
| 10 | They are upper-working to lower-middle class . |
| 11 | Look out for bags of ready-prepared mixed leaves — they are perfect for this salad . |
| 12 | One of the few luxuries within their reach is ceviche , a delicious mess of chopped raw fish with onions and lemon ; since fish feed near sewers , and are caught by people who wash ( if at all ) in sewer-water , they are perfect for spreading infection . |
| 13 | Patios are not just featureless hard-paved areas ; they are ripe for individual decoration . |
| 14 | They are better for this purpose than the Home and End keys because they work even when the typing line containing the cursor is very short . |
| 15 | Prone to blockage they are unsuitable for general use . |
| 16 | In both the caecum and the trachea the chloride secretory responses were inhibited by frusemide , indicating that they are due to electrogenic chloride secretion from the basolateral to the luminal side of the epithelium . |
| 17 | ‘ The enormity of the figures describing zero-point energy has led theorists to question from time to time whether these numbers should be taken seriously , or whether they are due to some defect or misinterpretation of the theory . |
| 18 | But we are talking the world 's favourite guitar tones , and they are present on this guitar just where you expect to find them . |
| 19 | The Japanese have advanced in the face of claims by many observers that they are poor at developing software — the instructions that make computers operate . |
| 20 | Seneca , the Roman author and politician , claimed that men travel ‘ … because they are tired of soft living and always seek after something which eludes them ’ . |
| 21 | They are good for conditioning skin that is prone to roughness on elbows , knees and on upper arms . |
| 22 | ‘ I know it sounds bizarre to say that when someone has made an awful lot of money and had a lot of fame and adulation , but you can wreck their minds , you can wreck their self-ego and esteem by giving them the whole wrong picture of themselves by pretending they are good at one thing when they are not and boosting other things . |
| 23 | As already mentioned , they are useful for strong rejection of low-frequency interfering signals originating from the mains supply , which is absolutely essential in many instances . |
| 24 | Pakistanis are used to politicians behaving badly ; but even they are shocked at this week 's outbreak of trickery and thuggery . |
| 25 | That they are vulnerable to such abuse is itself evidence of their inadequacy and weakness . |
| 26 | Most will be reluctant to undergo assessment , either because they are involved in criminal activity or they expected to be subjected to a judgmental and disapproving attitude towards themselves , or because they are afraid their children may be removed from them . |
| 27 | Because these work to a co-ordinate system they are reproducible at any resolution and , more usefully , they can be scaled without destroying the original information . |
| 28 | Others rely more heavily upon aerobic respiration ; they are dark in colour , because they are rich in oxygen-carrying myoglobin and mitochondria . |
| 29 | They are rich in natural food and do not encourage over-breeding . |
| 30 | The House of Lords has concluded that our Sunday trading laws are unclear and has therefore referred them to the European Court of Justice to clarify whether they are compatible with European law . |