Example sentences of "[coord] they [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Listening to the R5 commentary I did n't think that we played that well ( better than Norwich … but they were at home & they 're shit there usually ! ) . |
| 2 | or they 're landladies from Llandudno |
| 3 | They all s they stand there at the door going lighter as if it matters they have to get off the train with a cigarette in their mouth or they 're uncool , some shit like this |
| 4 | Whether I or they 're exhibits . |
| 5 | They either function as addressees , marking the important " conversational " or " interpersonal " character of the Odes , or they are figures from the world of gods and heroes . |
| 6 | Either identical particles are fermions , which means that their wavefunction has to change sign under interchange , or they are bosons , in which case they have the even simpler property that their wavefunction is completely unaltered by an interchange . |
| 7 | We are the true human beings , they lack something or other , or they are witches , or cannibals ( see Arens ( 1979 ) for a discussion of this theme ) . |
| 8 | Either they are doing the work that younger people could and perhaps should be doing ; or they are part of a growing population of retired people whose idleness is creating social and financial difficulties for the rest of the productive population . |
| 9 | Most record-company chiefs had risen to their position by one of two ways ; either they were ‘ record men ’ born and bred , who by their own taste and judgement had quietly built their own companies , or had risen through the sales and marketing ranks of some multinational to positions of prominence ; or they were lawyers or accountants , practised in the art of negotiation and creative bookkeeping . |
| 10 | Now that was er , it was er or they were oranges what had been cut in half and they had the centre taken out so it was just the orange peel and that was pressed into these barrels , filled with water and that was then brought up on to the quay , left on the quay and that used to go to . |
| 11 | Today there is dispute about how far he caused his and his followers deaths , or they were victims of a needless tragedy . |
| 12 | And they 're kind of lasting . |
| 13 | A lot of people think that they 're housewives and they 're cabbages ; I do n't like to think I 'm only a housewife … |
| 14 | And they 're ornaments today , they are n't working horses . |
| 15 | And they 're nieces from they says , Uncle Tom we hear that you 're going er er back to Northern Ire or to Ireland . |
| 16 | Now it did n't mean that you build his war machine , but the Kuwaiti people being so close , or actually bordering , we helped the economy of Baghdad , we helped the economy of the Iraq , and we contributed thirteen billion dollars , just the government alone , to their economy and the people of Kuwait also helped with their own private donation to help the schools , the hospitals , the food , whatever they needed , and the country of Kuwait was erm trying to be , as my friend said , as neutral as possible because there is Irani interest in Kuwait , very great through trade , through Iranis who work in Kuwait , so we had a very difficult position with respect to keeping both parties erm sort of in sight , not lose sight of them from our humanistic point of view , but it was erm difficult to avoid being on the side of the Iraqui , mainly because they 're neighbours and they 're Arabs , and you 're part of the league of Arab states , so you ca n't draw the line and say the government was pro or against , but that was the atmosphere which we were leaving . |
| 17 | and quite a lot of the nurses used to walk their nurses , I mean they 're er war trained and unarmed combat and they 're wardens , let's face it , they 're not nurses , and one of them was saying to me , oh we had a fellow in the other day , he 'd , he 'd a , fallen up the police stations steps I think erm , he said that he 'd been to see the do gooders , he had this interview |
| 18 | Okay , all of those things are important when you answer the telephone , and they 're things to bear in mind . |
| 19 | and they 're attendance patterns look excellent ! |
| 20 | Yeah , and they 're blow dryer . |
| 21 | and they 're Sun readers from Sidcup |
| 22 | and they 're loners and he were very nice though |
| 23 | Enterprise Allowance payments were £40 a week in 1983 , and they 're £40 a week today . |
| 24 | When I go to the sauna I see these women and they 're Mum 's age , but they 're overweight , and Mum is fitter than them so she does n't have much to worry about . |
| 25 | thank you Denis … two season tickets to the manor for you Mr. Mullins … we 're also giving away a United shirt apiece to six runners up … and they 're Lee Lowe … |
| 26 | So this On on these general points like this you could pick up quite a few marks , but a lot of the questions are not that technical erm and they 're stuff that you do know . |
| 27 | They were four , five pound there and they were only three pound and Wickland And they 're beauties ! |
| 28 | And they 're C S Ws . |
| 29 | And they 're attributes possessed in ultra-abundance by The Heathers , an elite clique of vacuous High School beauties who specialise in ‘ being popular ’ and making life hell for socially inadequate ‘ dweebettes ’ and ‘ pillowcases ’ . |
| 30 | So erm N T is significant to Sequent and to Digital and they 're target platforms for us as well . |