Example sentences of "these be [adj] [noun pl] and [pron] " in BNC.

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1 These are general criteria and it is dangerous to be too specific .
2 The advertisement says that it is supplied only to military personnel , but these are general adverts and I doubt whether that is the case .
3 These are terrible mysteries and we have no warrant to tinker with them . ’
4 These are new schools and they have got money for projects they want and need .
5 However they 're quick to point out that these are early days and they may not even have the right gene .
6 Isaac says these are early days and we should look again after 6 months .
7 Striker Atkinson said : ‘ These are early days and I still do n't believe I have hit top form . ’
8 In conclusion , these are early days and there is a lot that still remains to be learned about adoption with contact as far as the children are concerned .
9 Richard er er h these are occasional examples and they 're very very rare .
10 As Tim said you have to hold on to the fact that these are real characters and their in a kind of confrontational situation here are n't they ?
11 But these are expensive inputs and they need some skilled workers to control their use .
12 Oh , well these are substantial houses and I would imagine that for the six houses we could get twelve families , twelve families housed immediately , they 'd be substantial houses .
13 These are remarkable achievements and it would be unreasonable to expect Malinowski also to have made theoretical contributions of comparable significance .
14 One can appreciate why there may be a deliberate decision to restrict their circulation : these are sensitive matters and whatever policy applies , one group or another will be dissatisfied , perhaps to the extent of taking action against the library ; moreover any decision-making that is laid bare almost always invites debate and dispute .
15 These are troubled times and you have decided to fish in very dangerous and deep waters . ’
16 These are exciting times and you and your readers are very lucky .
17 Whilst such systems are powerful tools for marketing analysis and direct marketing campaigns ( indeed , such profile codings have been shown to be highly predictive when incorporated into credit scorecards ) , the credit marketer should never lose sight of the fact that these are likely profiles and there will inevitably be a small proportion of targeted customers whose actual profiles display a disparity from the system profile .
18 These were extraordinary allegations and they turned the city upside down .
19 These were sooty shearwaters and we realised we were passing Kidney Island , a local nature reserve which held large colonies of seabirds , including many thousands of these sooty shearwaters .
20 For example , they lived very much longer than one would have expected , and Gellmann said well these were strange particles and he invented a new quantum number called a strangeness , and then he assumed that this strangeness quantum number was not quite conserved. erm we have conserved quantum numbers in physics like the charge — you have to conserve the charge , but you do n't quite have to conserve the strangeness .
21 I mean if , if he 's saying that these were amazing things and they
22 He knew that these were sensitive matters and he was relieved , though not altogether surprised , that this scion of the aristocracy and military England should appear so benign about the matter .
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