Example sentences of "[adv] they [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Graham : Perhaps they are the professional advisers who advised the Government to sell the royal ordnance factory in my constituency for a pittance to people who later recouped the price in one sale . |
| 2 | So they 're the only ones you want to get rid of or are they the only ones you 've got ? |
| 3 | Together they are a vital , but a very scarce resource : police centralisation , of which the Federation disapproves , could help optimise the use of available talent . |
| 4 | Together they were the necessary and sufficient conditions for the surge in bank loans to the developing countries in the 1970s , and together they provide much of the explanation for the reverse flow of funds , from South to North , that followed in the 1980s ( see figure 1.3 ) . |
| 5 | On the tides of Dublin or London they were hardly more than specks of froth but together they were the aristocratic Morans of Great Meadow , a completed world , Moran 's daughters . |
| 6 | Admittedly they 're a little bit less streamlined but if you 're going to say that that makes a serious difference |
| 7 | As adjacent word positions are also looked up in the word look-up tree , they are checked for whether or not they are the appropriate words to complete the compound . |
| 8 | Still they were a generous , friendly bunch and they told me to make myself at home until the editorial meeting later in the afternoon . |
| 9 | It was hanging on so I had to take it off they are a bloody nuisance them racks you know , dangerous |
| 10 | More probably they were the original inhabitants of the planet , and had evolved until they were superior to the interlopers . |
| 11 | That was n't difficult , because he was sitting in the middle of the largest and noisiest group in the room — also they were the only ones speaking English . |
| 12 | cos really they 're the only f you know they 'll be going yeah that 's my mass line alright |
| 13 | Unknown in 1986 , they made their UK debut at Brighton Festival — now they are a worldwide sensation . |
| 14 | Schemes such as the furniture stores would have operated at a much more modest level whereas now they are the main providers of this service in the city . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , Aylesbury United , they 're at home to Harlow Town in the AC Delco cup , first round replay , now they 're a nice club , they even let me know if one of their supporters is ill Jane . |
| 16 | Both groups need very special care — yet so often they are the forgotten people in our community . |
| 17 | Both groups need very special care — yet so often they are the forgotten people in our community . |
| 18 | Originally they were a crude if effective attempt to get the plumbing right . |
| 19 | Henceforward they were a minor annoyance on the very fringes of European politics rather than a serious menace to British security . |
| 20 | Used properly they are an effective barrier against HIV . |
| 21 | People in these positions did not consciously seek to become part of an elite , rather they were the unwitting members of a structure of institutions — the military , the industrial and the political — which had coincidental needs . |
| 22 | Well they 're a full record of all the deductions and so on and so forth are n't they ? |
| 23 | But then you come and tell us well they 're a charitable trust I would of thought that a charitable trust would of been very er , happy to have seen the some rented accommodation ? |
| 24 | Well they 're an oldish couple as well . |
| 25 | Well they was an old cargo boat , that were n't like a naval boat , they do n't call it now , they do n't call a naval boat a tramp , well the other ones cos they 're faster and th th the old tramp , tramps it was like an old tramp on the road and erm because we used to go very slow , well th the Japanese after the war , they bought these old ships up , we loaded them with scrap iron and they took the whole lot over to Japan , and cut the whole ship up scrap iron . |
| 26 | I was with them in Glasgow as well they were a national company and I came down here from Glasgow . |
| 27 | But while the upper edges of the thickening cloud were bright as polished brass , underneath they were a sullen purple . |
| 28 | The primary sources for the religious orders were the lives and experience of their first and founding sisters , but equally they were the early sources of Christianity itself , namely the Gospels and the experience of those primitive Christian groups whose stories are depicted in the Acts of the Apostles . |
| 29 | Today they are an important source of food all over the world . |
| 30 | A group of teachers asked Hinrich Medau if he could find a use for some wooden clubs — gradually every possibility was explored , and today they are an indispensable part of the Medau movement equipment . |