Example sentences of "they be [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All of them are vulnerable to coastal erosion and are being nibbled away by the sea . |
| 2 | Most of them are available with turbocharged engines below the 2-litre tax break . |
| 3 | Many of them are unhappy about current proposals . |
| 4 | Adherents of all of them are active in current debate , and the story is one of proliferation . |
| 5 | People tend to assume that parents of mentally handicapped children and those who work with them are gifted with abnormal powers of patience and understanding , or suffused with some form of religious or social awareness that make them adopt a sacrificial purpose in life . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The implication is that if college graduates are relatively weak on inferred ability , they should ensure that they are strong on relevant competence . |
| 8 | Unlike para-hyponyms , however , they are normal in coordinated lists : |
| 9 | They are close to psychological notions of qualitative , subjective methods . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Patios are not just featureless hard-paved areas ; they are ripe for individual decoration . |
| 12 | Clearly , conscious processes are central to an individual 's own experience , but most of us remain neutral as to whether they are central to cognitive processes given that many , if not most , of these are not conscious . |
| 13 | Prone to blockage they are unsuitable for general use . |
| 14 | By the same token they are unsuitable for small rooms , and would be so even if their considerable bulk was n't so dominating in such surroundings . |
| 15 | Pair-bonds are comparatively rare in reptiles , and although they are typical of certain mammals , such as beavers , jackals , foxes and gibbons , this is not the typical mammalian grouping . |
| 16 | The elder and his dwindling following claim that misfortunes are the judgment of the outraged ancestors ; his opponents — led by those who covet his position — claim they are due to intolerable acts of malicious witchcraft , providing incontrovertible proof that their author is no longer fit to retain his exalted office . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A finance director challenged about the emergence of unexpected cash flow problems may be able to point out that they are due to invoicing delays caused by the breakdown of a new computer system , purchased and installed without sufficient thought and against his advice . |
| 19 | They are present in varying degrees throughout the period of this book ; the degree of their influence , their role in the construction of social consensus or in unifying disparate social forces is another factor that must be taken into account . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Thus , the results are very impressive : there is obviously a regular pattern in them , and as they are accountable to observed data , they are much more persuasive than categorical statements about language that are made on the basis of introspection alone . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | They are good for conditioning skin that is prone to roughness on elbows , knees and on upper arms . |
| 24 | ‘ They are good to old people here ; we shall probably get in if no one else does . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Minor or the trace constituents then are present in concentrations less than one part per million they obviously count for less than point one percent of the total salts They are useful as chemical tracers of particular waters . |
| 27 | Bluntly , if the services and stock of the public library are under-used , they are vulnerable to financial cuts . |
| 28 | No numerical illustrations are given because it is the very nature of the techniques described that they are successful on large problems — too large to illustrate explicitly here . |
| 29 | They are appropriate in different circumstances but each provides simple , clear , and unambiguous ways of describing the logic of what happens in a particular process . |
| 30 | Industrial members , who constitute over half the Institute 's membership , are effectively in the same position as the public as far as the Caparo decision is concerned , since they are involved with other companies ' audited accounts in their capacity of investor or creditor , but their voice is rarely heard and , even then , is ignored . |