Example sentences of "[adv] be [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the eleventh hour , he underestimated the Stealers — as if they had only been his playthings . |
| 2 | Under Mr Levin its high-tech ambitions are bigger than most , and so are its debts . |
| 3 | Theory is radical , and so are its advocates . |
| 4 | Ralph Waldo Emerson 's remark stands as a typical example : ‘ As men 's prayers are a disease of the will , so are their creeds a disease of the intellect . ’ |
| 5 | Well , so are their customers . |
| 6 | We should not blindly make the easy moralistic assumption that whores are disgraceful and so are their customers , of course . |
| 7 | But the men are lapping it up — so are their floosies . |
| 8 | But the world of the women is real through and through , and so are their appendages . |
| 9 | Linfield are keen to get him ; so are their fans . |
| 10 | But if you start putting down investment in new plant and equipment when interest is at 8% , and you find in a year 's time that you 're paying 15% — and so are your customers , and they 're not buying — it screws the numbers up . |
| 11 | " You 're welcome , and so are your friends . |
| 12 | I 'm asthmatic and so are my children . |
| 13 | So are there criticisms ? |
| 14 | So are his sisters . |
| 15 | Not only are its policies extremely wasteful , but one of the companies that it set up is just collapsing , insolvent , and this is costing £8 a head to every community charge payer in the area . |
| 16 | The double-voicedness of the novels examined in this chapter is thus itself double : not only are they illustrations of how the voice of an individual interacts with the anonymous collective voice of a discursive system , they also stage the confrontation between the language of fiction and that of the human sciences which have the same object but different methods . |
| 17 | Not only are their resources in demand , but they make powerful appeals to instinct and emotion . |
| 18 | Not only are their sties roomy and warm , but they are allowed to forage around in a large orchard . |
| 19 | So not only are your jobs consistently exceeding your limitations , but the limitations themselves are getting greater . |
| 20 | Not only are our brains equipped by nature to assess risks of things in a short time ; they are also equipped to assess risks of things happening to us personally , or to a narrow circle of people that we know . |
| 21 | Not only are there dangers that a particular tab of E contains strychnine or whatever , there is also the chance that it is not E at all . |
| 22 | Not only are there differences between schools within the same local authority area but there are differences in the ways in which each local authority organises its schools . |
| 23 | Not only are there problems in making relevance judgments on surrogate documents , i.e. , titles of books ; but also the interactive nature of the search process whereby the query may be reformulated makes it very difficult to see how recall can be applied . |
| 24 | Thus , not only are there ambiguities in practice in terms of the organisational design of public sector organisations but they do not tell us very much about the power and status that attach to particular departments . |
| 25 | Not only are there examples of extreme rarity , a large ‘ Christ driving the money changers from the temple ’ in coloured chalk by Jacopo Bassano , two handsome brush drawings by Carpaccio , a ‘ Thebaid ’ by Costa , the only drawing which can be attributed with any reason to Desiderio da Settignano , Pordenone 's superb red chalk ‘ Martyrdom of Saint Peter Martyr ’ , drawn in competition with Titian and Palma Vecchio , which comes from Chatsworth and should never have been allowed an export licence from Britain , Albert Cuyp 's delightful ‘ Milkmaid ’ , Saenredam 's ‘ Choir and north ambulatory of the Church of Saint Bavo , Haarlem ’ , Altdorfer 's ‘ Christ carrying the cross ’ , but also many of great beauty , Turner 's finished watercolour ‘ Long Ship lighthouse , Land 's End ’ , the anonymous Swiss ( Bernese ? ) |
| 26 | Not only are there vines as far as the eye can see from its brand-new winemaking centre in Vertus , but the company also owns nearly 310 acres of its own vineyards , most of them sited on the Côte des Blancs . |
| 27 | Not only were we children interested in primroses but in other small flowers of spring such as violets , cowslips and later daisies , buttercups , bluebells and honeysuckle . |
| 28 | As Ross monopolised her company , and claimed her for every dance , Laura was dimly aware that not only were her friends amazed , and frankly envious , but that she and Ross were the focus of all eyes , and much gossip . |
| 29 | Not only were her savings gone , but so was Aunt Jane 's legacy and the money Mike had pressed on her as an early wedding present … |
| 30 | Not only were their needs felt to threaten the living standards of other groups , but it was argued that these needs should be given less priority : ‘ It is dangerous to be in any way lavish to old age , until adequate provision . |