Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [am/are] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it 's just a pity that they 're sitting back in their armchairs in Dublin thinking they 're immune from the situation that 's developing before our eyes . |
| 2 | And Bailey 's comments are backed up by the trainer Derek Meredith who says American jockeys are better , they ride closer to the horse they 're neater and they are stronger too . |
| 3 | And if you want them with chocolate on one side they 're one thirty nine . |
| 4 | So anyway I went to Index cos I want I want and a watch I 'm looking for a watch cos , and I thought oh aye I come to rings , I thought well I owe her a ring so I thought oh better half eternity ring they 're cheap anyway . |
| 5 | Keith Richardson says this was a game Gloucester had to win … it was a turning point and the players will now be able to relax and play the football they are capable of |
| 6 | To many people the horse 's face seems rather unexpressive , and as a result they are unaware of the emotions of the horse . |
| 7 | As an investment for the future they are cheap at the price , |
| 8 | Books , letters , documents , manuscripts — in my mind they are all indissolubly linked , members of one great family ; but it is far from the general feeling . |
| 9 | Whilst this is undoubtably true — men , even when they 're in the minority , take up proportionally more space and time and attention than in equity they are entitled to — but it is not the reason why radical feminists argue for their exclusion . |
| 10 | The Jehovah 's Witness they 're opposed to all sorts of tyranny , the Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 11 | erm The reason why we moved the amendment on this is er Jim been and that has , we started to query the figures I did n't get involved in the all this week and th people like Jim , David loads of my attention and the whole er exercise was a fraud they 're all bum figures and when I checked , the figures I have checked here are done by a senior officer when I showed 'im what stuff was being wrong . |
| 12 | ‘ As a baroque chamber ensemble they are unrivalled in terms of technical mastery and sheer vitality … |
| 13 | ‘ It 's not their fault they 're young . |
| 14 | When you see those wildlife programmes on telly they 're all either fucking or eating each other . |
| 15 | allow and they reckon that soft ones are better suited too sports because , because of the great action they 're harder to , to knock out , whereas soft ones er , have better other qualities , I 've got this little fucking book , book that I picked up in the Boots in Farnborough the other day yes , its quite interesting . |
| 16 | They put up a prize at the awards ceremony they 're prepared to do all the art work for nothing or at cost price for the awards ceremony they laid on this evening for us now if three people turn up at their evening they gon na say as we putting our money in the right organisation |
| 17 | And er Notts are pressing through again and er two down , of course Pisa are beginning to pull players back but on the break they are dangerous and here they come again . |
| 18 | They see labour as something which can be bought and sold and , for them , that is all there is to it ; when they use that idea of labour they are unaware of and unconcerned with what has caused it . |
| 19 | For blue light they 're close together , for red they 're wider apart . |
| 20 | Most men read them as prose but to the poet they are transcendent poetry or music that finds a response in the soul . |
| 21 | How individuals come across on television usually depends on how much understanding , effort and practice they are prepared to give to it . |
| 22 | In practice they are those cases in which the plaintiff seeks to enforce or protect some right vested in him ( eg , an injunction to restrain a breach of contract ) rather than those where he merely invites the court to exercise its powers to grant him some statutory relief ( eg an application by a debtor for a " time order " under Consumer Credit Act 1974 , s 129(1) ( b ) ) . |
| 23 | Even though glowing reports of fund raising efforts will have some public relations spin-off they are unlikely to overcome any serious doubts the local community might have about the school . |
| 24 | One of the advantages of pension funds — both company and individual — is that provided they are approved by the Inland Revenue they are exempt from paying tax on the growth of the fund . |
| 25 | From this mockery they are unable to set free the immortal soul , even after it has attained wisdom , and believe it to be proceeding unceasingly to false blessedness and returning unceasingly to true misery … . |
| 26 | I suppose grief , loneliness , loss they 're all interconnected , are n't they , so any one of those could come into it . |
| 27 | In the summer the working conditions are bad enough ; in the winter they 're tortuous . |
| 28 | No wonder they 're touchy when you pick on them the way you do . ’ |
| 29 | I thought no wonder they 're one pound thirty odd ! |
| 30 | ‘ No wonder they 're all banding together . ’ |