Example sentences of "[noun] they be [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His knowledge of these people and his influence with them , was due to his own efforts — or at any rate they were nothing to do with these employers . |
| 2 | And in general terms they 're something of the order of twenty five and a half thousand swellings committed to development in the county , together with three and a half thousand erm in in in draft local plans . |
| 3 | Allan Lamb took over the captaincy and did his best , but it soon became clear that without Gooch they were nothing like the same team . |
| 4 | These rules may not much resemble the traditional grammatical rules of school textbooks but rules they are none the less . ’ |
| 5 | Seen through the disapproving eyes of respectable citizens they were nothing but a disorderly and disorganized rabble , dropouts from the social ladder . |
| 6 | In fact they were everything , as Kenneth Hsu of the Geological Institute of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich says : ‘ from wood chewers to grasshopper catchers , conifer browsers to possum hunters . |
| 7 | We expected to have security problems with Mrs Thatcher , but in fact they were nothing compared with those posed by the other guest on that show — Barry Manilow . |