Example sentences of "[adv] they [be] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To that first question , there is the answer that necessarily they are spatio-temporal-things in space and time . |
| 2 | Perhaps they are pests to a lot of people , but we did n't see too many flies around our estate during the hot summer , so they had their uses . |
| 3 | Perhaps they are nighthawks from space ! |
| 4 | Maggie had never bothered to resist their reasoning , and she folded her clothes partly from the natural instinct of obedience , and partly because she had never been entirely sure that these external appendages did indeed belong to her , Maggie Petherington , or if perhaps they were loans from the mysterious outer world ; loans that would doubtless be called in some day . |
| 5 | exam erm exam was double marked with , the question arose as to whether the essay should be double marked , because obviously they are part of the assessment . |
| 6 | We must return to the world , I fear , but first — ’ And he kissed her cheek , so gently that her tears flowed again , only they were tears of joy , not pain . |
| 7 | So they are victims of pressures about looks , too , but in a different way . |
| 8 | So they 're nieces from |
| 9 | In doing so they were part of their time . |
| 10 | And like a big body on small legs , i in a away they 're sort of rather wobbling and crumbling . |
| 11 | Thus they are struggles for modernization . |
| 12 | Collectively they are evidence of a coherent , deeply felt , formidable body of opinion within the present Conservative parliamentary party . |
| 13 | She crawled along to it , and a moment later they were face to face through a large chink , Tristram grinning , his teeth white and his face sun-darkened , and the sight of him made her feel safe and loved again , as if she had arrived home . |
| 14 | Where once Tory MPs were made at Eton , now they are graduates of home counties motels . |
| 15 | At the top , county council second metropolitan councils , that is all metropolitan councils that is of course if you remember , a metropolitan council in the area , in , in the area of the old former Mer Merseyside county council , the metropolitan councils would be Liverpool , Sefton , Wirral , Saint Helens , Southport , now they 're examples of metropolitan er councils . |
| 16 | Now they 're sort of things that you 've probably seen yourself quite frequently I would think . |
| 17 | By now they were part of the endless stream of traffic speeding towards west London . |
| 18 | Often they are questions on which the hierarchy of the family ( in so far as it exists in Britain ) has to be consulted . |
| 19 | Some are true , some are false , most have been embroidered in the interests of enjoyment and several have been told so often they are part of the apocryphal armada of football . |
| 20 | In doing this it is likely that much of the richness of the uncontrolled interview will be lost , but the aims of the formal interview are not richness , rather they are uniformity of question from a team of fieldworkers , and rapid quantification of answers for analysis and testing . |
| 21 | Our crews felt no great satisfaction when Pakistani nationals were intercepted on these operations , rather they were subjects for sympathy . |
| 22 | They are direct they 're clear they 're simple and most importantly they are words of one syllable . |
| 23 | Erm well they 're part of the G C S E syllabus . |
| 24 | Yeah well they 're agents for Bradley , Bradford and Bingley |
| 25 | Erm well they 're colleagues of mine , I work at the so these are colleagues of mine who are coming around |
| 26 | Yeah well they were kind of after erm the erm thing . |
| 27 | Well they were sort of like rough , rough figures given in relation to er |
| 28 | Undoubtedly they were places with magnetic stones and high natural radiation — things much rarer than in our modem technological society . |
| 29 | Maybe they were pests to humans , but humans were much bigger pests to them ; now there are no thylacines left and a considerable surplus of humans . |
| 30 | Sometimes they were illustrations for serious study or important social statements . |