Example sentences of "they be [prep] [det] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Books of reference that state that he was born in 1885 in Devon are mistaken , as they are about some other features of his career . |
| 2 | And yet , according to Arp , NGC 4319 and Mrk 205 are connected by streamers of material , impossible if they are at such different distances from us . |
| 3 | It 's inedible , but who would want to bother anyway , since they are at most two inches high ! |
| 4 | Certainly , among extreme Ulster unionists we continue to find a discourse of antiCatholicism which employs scriptural apocalyptic images which one suspects would be more readily comprehensible to late sixteenth- or seventeenth-century audiences than they are to most twentieth-century ones . |
| 5 | Yet the eight globins , descendants as they are of these remote branchings in distant ancestors , are still all present inside every one of us . |
| 6 | Yet lesbian subjects may be more different from each other than they are from many heterosexual women . |
| 7 | In these languages all nouns are classified ( they are in many other languages too ) , often according to shape and size . |
| 8 | Still , I marvel at how eagerly and easily a chub will bite , considering how shy they are in all other respects . |
| 9 | But cars are what they are called on the London Underground , just as they are in all American trains . |
| 10 | They 're for those upper-class twits who turn up halfway through seminars and who never bother to get their essays in on time . |
| 11 | There are others he did n't buy and wants to unload , like Tony Cottee who cost £2.2m , but they 're on such big contracts other clubs ca n't afford their wages . |
| 12 | What else can they want if they 're in these behind-the-arras jobs ? |
| 13 | But erm the women were so involved , they were on all these committees , they were , you know , harassing committees and they er really working they were . |
| 14 | As far as the Palestinian population was concerned , gas masks had not been distributed , as they were to all Israeli citizens , to Jewish settlers in the occupied territories and to all arriving immigrants ; moreover , there were reportedly no air raid sirens in the occupied territories except in the Jewish settlements there . |
| 15 | Taking everything into account it is remarkable that the Coniston Mines , tucked away as they were amongst these remote mountains in the north-west of England ( and with the smelters so far away ) , were able to sustain so many years of almost unbroken continuity . |
| 16 | Even then , they were in such low doses , they were often less effective . |
| 17 | Her almost violet eyes were a bit startling , maybe , set as they were in such dark lashes , but certainly her hair did n't give the impression of ruthless determination ; it sprang every which way , totally unsuppressed . |
| 18 | These can not be explained simply in terms of shared descent ( as they were in some multicultural accounts of ethnicity ) or a shared socio-economic location and history ( as they are in some antiracist versions of ‘ the black experience ’ ) . |
| 19 | The people of the parish remain as close-knit as they were in those early days . |
| 20 | Staffing ratios were generally better in grammar schools than elsewhere , and even the Burnham system favoured ( as it was meant to do ) schools with a larger proportion of older pupils , especially if they were in those sixth forms which continued to stand at the peak of a meritocratic secondary system . |
| 21 | She sent , they were in those little strips , she sent three in for me , she said and have you tasted these I said I do n't think so , so she sent them , I 'd tasted the other ones but not those white ones so she sent three of them in for us . |
| 22 | The Smiths were heroic party-poopers at the Top of the Pops office do , glowering at the forced jollity ; they were like those gauche youths Who turn up to house parties only to cling to the dark comers in chaste disdain , driven by the naïve , vaguely inhuman conviction that all merriment is a lie . |