Example sentences of "[be] the [noun] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gust becos I cud not spel It did not mean I was daft When the boys in school red my riting Some of them laffed But now I am the dictater They have to rite like me Utherwise they can not pas Ther GCSE Some of the girls wer ok But those who laffed a lot Have al bean rownded up And have recintly bean shot The teecher who corrected my speling As not been shot at al But four the last fifteen howers As bean standing up against a wal He has to stand ther until he can spel Figgymisgrugifooniyn the rite way I think he will stand ther forever I just inventid it today |
| 2 | The opportunity , rather , is this : apart from lean production and quality control , one of the big domestic advantages of the best Japanese manufacturers has been the way they garner information within their own firm and use it to take decisions . |
| 3 | Have they taken a step back in time , or are the programs they have available up-to-the-minute ? |
| 4 | Motor roads in Sutherland are few and far between and so are the villages they serve . |
| 5 | They , on the contrary , the police authority have a working party which had four very long and very detailed meetings and went through their budget line by line by line , and these are the figures they came up with . |
| 6 | Women are being urged to re-train and re-learn but what are the obstacles they have to overcome to give themselves that second chance ? |
| 7 | Or rather , those are the notions they volunteered unprompted . |
| 8 | If a husband and wife are the adopters they have the same rights as against one another , and as against the adopted child , as if they were the child 's natural father and mother . |
| 9 | This , these are the arguments they present , I mean I I 'm not inclined to , I 'm , I 'm inclined to think they 're somewhat bogus these arguments but the argument of continuity is there . |
| 10 | Are the subjects they write about simply not engaging to the editors of these magazines ? |
| 11 | He said ‘ Yes he s a very good little goalscorer — hell always score goals — Wimbledon know he s the man they have to look after ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're the man they sent up from Rome ? ’ she asked . |
| 13 | Perhaps you 're the boss they love to hate . |
| 14 | ‘ But they 're the terms they 've set . ’ |
| 15 | This could be the year they do , though they say that around the Cam every year and have been wrong for 15 of the last 16 . |
| 16 | Cos that 'll be , that 'll be the bit they show on the news . |
| 17 | Some people try to force their partner to be the person they want them to be . |
| 18 | One of the Sharmas ' own witnesses even admitted on the stand that the dogs could n't be the ones they claimed . |
| 19 | For Rose , of Argyll Court , Norton , and her second husband , Maurice , it will be the trip they have always dreamed of taking together . |
| 20 | Can we honestly assume that the way they are in school will be the way they relate to an employer , or to younger children in an adventure playground ? |
| 21 | This may be the way they soothe their young . |
| 22 | Experiments with captive eels suggest that they can navigate by the stars , just as some migrating birds can , and on the first stages of their journey away from Europe , when they swim near the surface , this may be the way they guide themselves . |
| 23 | It is for someone to support the person whilst they try to unravel their thoughts in such a way that it becomes clear that they can say anything , no matter how bizarre or odd it sounds , because that will be the way they sort out their feelings in order to cope with them . |
| 24 | I think had we managed to stick it together a bit longer , all fifty of us , and just prove to the management that we were n't gon na be starved back to work which seemed to be the way they wanted us to go back , you know because the board had you know escalated , you know I think had we managed to stick it together , certainly the result would 've been different . |
| 25 | Reaction-diffusion could well be the way they arise in development . |
| 26 | The dilemma can be expressed as follows : the more accessible teachers seek to make themselves to all their pupils as individuals , the less time they have for direct , extended and challenging interaction with any of them ; but the more time they devote to such extended interaction with some children , the less demanding on them as teachers must be the activities they give to the rest ; and the less demanding an activity is of their time and attention as teachers , the more the likelihood that the activity in question will demand little of the child . |
| 27 | There was restrained optimism among Wickham 's team that this could be the lead they had been waiting for . |
| 28 | The Army had taught him that , too , and the SAS acceptance tests had rammed the lesson home by sending him out over the damp Brecon Beacons with a 55-lb Bergen rucksack knowing he had to cover a certain distance in a certain time but not knowing that when he had done it , there would n't be the trucks they had promised but a vague assur-ance of a cup of tea if he kept on marching a few more miles in that direction . |
| 29 | Car dealers say the world 's fastest production car may not prove to be the sellout they 'd expected it to be . |
| 30 | At what they supposed to be the rendezvous they sat down to wait , unaware that a relief patrol of the LRDG had been sent out to pick them up — from a different place . |