Example sentences of "they [be] [verb] [prep] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Covering countryside such as the Chilterns and the South Downs , they are intended to be areas of special planning control with strong accent on the visual and environmental effects of any development . |
| 2 | As the light grows , they are seen to be ROS and GUIL , and to be resting quite comfortably . |
| 3 | There has been a series of decisions over the past 50 years which , although they are said to be cases of estoppel are not really such . |
| 4 | They are still at large and Scotland Yard has not ruled out their possible involvement in the latest attacks , but they are believed to be firearms specialists rather than bomb makers . |
| 5 | They are chosen to be soldiers because they are healthy , ’ he said . |
| 6 | By contrast , non-kin and affines are presumed to be enemies until they are shown to be friends ! |
| 7 | True-kin do not necessarily love one another , but it is always presumed that they are friends until they are shown to be enemies . |
| 8 | The British Army knows when they send troops here they are going to be targets . |
| 9 | Thus , although the monies received are capital in nature they are deemed to be income for the purposes of giving the taxpayer deductions and reliefs and they are charged under Case VI of Schedule D. Thus , for instance , the remittance basis would not be applicable although there is no reason why general principles should not be applicable so that income arising overseas and received by a non-resident would not be chargeable under general principles whilst income arising in the United Kingdom could be chargeable under general principles regardless of who it is paid to . |
| 10 | A lot of girls end up promiscuous , when all they 're looking for is friendship . |
| 11 | They 're born to be automatons , consumed by baubles and gimmicks . |
| 12 | They 're born to be automatons , consumed by baubles and gimmicks . |
| 13 | No , taken them , they 're taken to be professionals though are n't they ? |
| 14 | When they stoop to the level of men and try to be ‘ good sports ’ , they 're accused of being wimps . |
| 15 | I 'm not against pamphlets if they 're going to be lines in communication . |
| 16 | But they 're going to be the smaller version , they 're going to be Escorts and Fiestas , I think people need encouraging to use them , cos |
| 17 | ‘ The boys do n't , they 're going to be sailors . |
| 18 | Yes we were told they 're going to be trees like that because they 've had a lot of trouble with pigeons roosting in the erm the mature trees and it 's impossible for people to sit on the benches underneath cos of er pigeon mess . |
| 19 | Th this company must be in a bloody sight worse a mess than we thought and the government are not letting us know this is what they 're look for are scapegoats and they they 're . |
| 20 | ‘ If you have a room which is meant to be a meeting place of all the chief Daleks , and what they 're talking about is power — power over other civilisations , power over other planets — then power and domination is what comes through in the dialogue , and is the feeling behind what you want to create . |
| 21 | In no sense could they be said to be members of industrial co-operatives : that is , of organisations set up for the manufacture of goods or the provision of services and wholly , or very largely , owned and ultimately controlled by those working in them . |
| 22 | The Japanese are reluctant , partly because they were asked to be contributors after the machine had been designed , rather than to be partners for the whole project . |
| 23 | They were trying to be advisers and salesmen at once . |
| 24 | Wanting to remain a child becomes unfeasible even to the most stupid old beard at the age of about 35 ; they eventually give up and accept they were born to be schoolteachers . |
| 25 | Boccara/Boucherit of France had the next fastest time but they were seen to be wash hanging , not for the first time at this level , and a protest was upheld , posing the question why the umpires Riccardo Guala and Glyde Brytt had given white flags . |
| 26 | For the felines themselves it is almost like a modern rebirth of the senseless persecution of the Medieval period , when they were accused of being servants of Satan . |
| 27 | They were permitted to be members of political parties or movements . |
| 28 | Such contributions are not in themselves illegal , but they would be if they were judged to be bribes . |
| 29 | Cos they were , they were gon na be miles too long . |
| 30 | Neither of them needed to spell out the fact that the ‘ he ’ they were talking about was Cashman . |