Example sentences of "[vb base] they are [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six Arabs — their headdress and robes suggest they are Bedouin — rest beside an ancient well of translucent blue water . |
| 2 | Even when you realise they are dummies , they could still be considered offensive . ’ |
| 3 | They say they are Jean . |
| 4 | Try to believe it when I say they are PLUMBERS . |
| 5 | Some players find Goblins hard to use because they imagine they are fighters and commit them to combat as if they were Orcs . |
| 6 | They , you know they are members . |
| 7 | I can not find much information on these fish , I only know they are meat eaters , and will grow big . |
| 8 | Include pupils , teachers — even caretakers and dinner ladies if you know they are Christians . |
| 9 | There are those who know they are sinners , confess and try to pursue the good . |
| 10 | ‘ If you feel compassion for the Palestinian women and children , ’ Abu Arz proclaimed , ‘ remember they are communists and will bear new communists . ’ |
| 11 | Some clients , usually the more ignorant ones , stupidly assume they are experts . |
| 12 | They 've got several in erm I suppose they are sport they are sport shoes covers running . |
| 13 | One said that while the pool 's new staffing levels give greater flexibility and save on overtime pay they are 25pc below the minimum safety standards . |
| 14 | I particularly try and develop an atmosphere of autonomy in the subsidiary companies where they feel they are part of a team and can look across at the other companies and can see admirable things going on . |
| 15 | , can I , can I just say , thank you Chairman , but could I just say on two three , I think that one of things that built the partnership was actually the launch of Ludlow , and that all those organizations were there , and helped part of the process , and I think one of the things we need to think about , Chairman , is now we 've got that B status , even though we 're arguing at the fringes , we 've actually got it , is perhaps doing another event like Ludlow , to involve all the organizations that , that , that will be participating in the programme , to give them a , so that they feel a , a common ownership of the programme , they can put forward the projects they want , they feel they are part of the process . |
| 16 | I do n't want to be picky about this but but I mean they are government based . |
| 17 | Anson agrees they are illegal whilst Cheshire and Fifoot specifically claim they are void — but not , illegal . |
| 18 | At the Mediterranean end , the inhabitants on either side of it are Catalans and very aware of the historical and linguistic bonds which transcend the national frontier ; while at the northern , Atlantic end they are Basques , similarly aware of their distinctiveness as a people . |
| 19 | To make it worse , they feel guilty about it ; they think they are failures to themselves , traitors to their sex and threats to their babies . |
| 20 | Stockbrokers , politicians and company chairmen hanker after retail investors for the same , simple reason : they think they are chumps . |
| 21 | They are also totally anti-trade union , even half of the contractors think they are cowboys , gangsters amongst cowboys . |
| 22 | Some people think they are Jesus Christ or Napoleon , but they ca n't all be right . |
| 23 | Personally I think they are window-dressing as usual for the benefit of their Scottish support . |
| 24 | I think they are part of the consideration . |
| 25 | I 'm sure you have men you think of in that way too , people you see from a distance and you think they are angels , or at least heroes . |
| 26 | A special frisson seems to be guaranteed for readers who think they are readers if the object of the mystery is itself a literary ( or artistic ) artefact — the manuscript in The Name of the Rose , the novel in Francesca Duranti 's The House on Moon Lake ( 1987 ) , the unwriting writer in Del Giudice . |
| 27 | This does not mean that I am not going to suggest some home truths : only that I think they are truths , and not another uncomprehending outsider 's attempt to cajole , belittle or malign people who are struggling to do their best in a complex and stressful situation , and who know better than anyone else that their best sometimes is n't very good . |
| 28 | Maybe they think they are flowers ! |
| 29 | The basic texts which explain them are Tukey ( 1977 ) and Erickson and Nosanchuk ( 1977 ) , who supply an exploratory counterpart to every confirmatory technique . |
| 30 | In Gregg Araki 's The Living End , two guys discover they are HIV positive and abandon themselves to violence . |