Example sentences of "[adv] be [pers pn] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So were they foreigners ? |
| 4 | I 've bin dealin' wiv Johnson 's fer years now , an' so was me parents when they 'ad the shop . ’ |
| 5 | Thus are we victims of various sorts of obsession when certain parts of ourselves seek to preserve themselves even at the expense of the whole personality . |
| 6 | Now are you middles or ? |
| 7 | ‘ The only bastards here are youse bastards . |
| 8 | Well was it antiques or something cos I did n't come in ? |
| 9 | The report of the committee enunciated that whereas tribunals were not courts of law , neither were they appendages of government departments . |
| 10 | They were neither callous nor particularly insensitive , but neither were they undertakers , required to assume a professional reverence in the face of death . |