Example sentences of "[verb] they [am/are] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How do we know they 're the proper people to have sight of these — documents ? |
| 2 | The administrator , Tilahu Walle , says they are the lucky ones of the 200 000 people in the area who need assistance . |
| 3 | ‘ You have to remember they are the current league champions and had been training three nights a week . |
| 4 | By ordering the fourth Trident submarine , the Conservatives show they are the only party to be trusted with defending Britain . |
| 5 | Erm but you know they are the actual Inland Revenue . |
| 6 | As far as I know they are the original studs , measuring 23mm across . |
| 7 | Paul 's wife , Caroline , and David 's wife , Carol , could n't care less about the subject and their friends reckon they 're The Odd Couple ! |
| 8 | " We believe they are the male and female principles of existence . |
| 9 | Yeah , it 's just pure coincidence , it 's just the way that trotting around , I think what we 're trying to do was to say , something wrong in exam book , plus , plus , which is not liked , but , I do n't think they are the alike . |
| 10 | Some of them pretend they 're the illegitimate sons of noblemen , and some of them pretend someone else did the murder . |
| 11 | I bet they 're the other mob . |
| 12 | Well I think they 're the only people who |
| 13 | I think they 're the wrong size actually , I think they 're a size too big |
| 14 | Then on the third page , some wards with very high rates of unemployment , I think they are the top twenty if memory serves me right . |
| 15 | INCONTINENCE is not generally the sort of thing people chat merrily about which means that there are , apparently , a lot of silent sufferers thinking they 're the only one . |
| 16 | What brings all of the x86 family together , primarily because of MSDOS , is that they can all pretend they are the original 8086 , if a bit faster . |
| 17 | The couple are legally required to show they are the prospective parents . ’ |
| 18 | See they 're the only teeth Tony 's got left . |