Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [be] all [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | A number of attempts were made to introduce such courses in the next few years , but as experiments in applied anthropology they were all failures . |
2 | erm The reason why we moved the amendment on this is er Jim been and that has , we started to query the figures I did n't get involved in the all this week and th people like Jim , David loads of my attention and the whole er exercise was a fraud they 're all bum figures and when I checked , the figures I have checked here are done by a senior officer when I showed 'im what stuff was being wrong . |
3 | ‘ No wonder they 're all banding together . ’ |
4 | I know at my age group they 're all Darren and Gary and Steven and |
5 | Well at this age they 're all tummy , going , they 're just like , big , big , big tummy , they 're |
6 | How can these men ( of course they are all men ) drive their juggernauts at such insane speeds in such dreadful conditions ? |
7 | Erm metal oxides , metal the oxides , differences see , this is the thing they 're all sort of quite keen on , so some of the important metals here . |
8 | However the author got through 3182 lines without mentioning Christ , or salvation , and yet without saying specifically that his heroes , including the kind and honest figure of Beowulf himself , were damned — though he must have known that historically and in reality they were all pagans , ignorant even of the name of Christ . |
9 | The idea they are all introverts is a myth , but they pay significant attention to detail . ’ |