Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [conj] they [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Other feminist writers , such as Overfield ( 1981 ) , Wallsgrove ( 1980 ) and Fee ( 1983 ) have suggested that dichotomies such as nature/culture , subject/object , emotional/rational are harmful because they imply the superiority of culture over nature , the objective over the subjective , and the rational over the emotional . |
| 32 | West Ham look a good outfit , they pass the ball around well in the midfield but are crap when they get it in the box . |
| 33 | People are different and they do n't want to be treated the same . |
| 34 | Certainly the style and type of projects in the schools are different and they offer a markedly different approach to user education in schools than was prevalent before the present period of research funding . |
| 35 | Women are old when they reach 60 and men are old at 65 . |
| 36 | I am delighted that they have done so well that it is now proposed , even in these difficult times , to increase their establishment . |
| 37 | Many advice workers are unaware that they have had a democratic part in the policy decisions that have adopted these training requirements and some even see these demands on them as a personal affront . |
| 38 | Many people with HIV are unaware that they have the virus and may be unaware that they have taken risks . |
| 39 | Many involved in boxing will argue that people should be free to follow activities which are dangerous if they choose to do so . |
| 40 | A lawyer for the family said afterwards : ‘ The Bonham-Carters are sad that they have been compelled to take proceedings and they very much hope that Mr Farquharson will abide by the court order . ’ |
| 41 | This , of course , illustrates the vital necessity of keeping medical and scientific works up-to-date , and the fact that outmoded editions are worthless until they have attained the status of historical curiosities . |
| 42 | However , profit margins are tiny where they exist at all and ICI had made it clear that it was not chasing ‘ profitless prosperity . ’ |
| 43 | Some agencies are explicit that they do not deal with properties below a certain rent level , while others discriminate against students or other groups . |
| 44 | Such hill-walkers are uncomfortable unless they look like the remnants box in an Indian wedding-sari shop . |
| 45 | The Government refused to accept our arguments then and we are delighted that they accept our arguments now . |
| 46 | But the reasons for this are instructive because they illustrate difficulties that arise in analyzing attitudes to almost any new scientific theory . |
| 47 | Graham Paulter , sales manager of Ford Crouch End Motor Company , says : ‘ People still feel their jobs are insecure and they have mortgages to pay rather than get a new car . |
| 48 | They 're friendly when they know you , but not when they 're in pig . |
| 49 | I think it 's a stigma that a lot of men feel they ca n't show that they 're depressed or they 've got a problem so they 'll pick up a ph , a phone . |
| 50 | He 's he 's out yes and there are two or three in which have erm you know they 're sorry that they 've gone back and er we feel sorry sort of for them that they 've dropped into and a lot of our young lads have got mortgages and all that but there are some gone back er they need not people erm they 'd finished rearing their families and everything . |
| 51 | I mean erm you know erm when I go to the London Group erm we all know that erm actually er there 's a kind of , there 's an inner feeling you know well we 've got the right computers , we , we 're the you know , we , we believe computing and we , we 're very sorry you know we 're erm we may not actively despise them , but we , we 're sorry that they have to bother with such an awful operating system and everything else . |
| 52 | When they 're pregnant or they 've got a little baby . |
| 53 | Well yeah they 're free but they 've got their advert on it have n't they ? |
| 54 | Well , they 're different because they have them they 're really controlled by a man in a signal box so they 're |
| 55 | I do n't suppose you 're bothered whether they 've got hems and neat edges on them . |
| 56 | I do n't think that er , I think that unfortunately some of the older doctors definitely were misinformed and were n't educated and I think nowadays that the doctors are becoming very much more educated and perhaps the ones who have the bad time are the fortunate ones in so far as they 're getting the hormone replacement therapy if they 're lucky and they have sympathetic general practitioner . |
| 57 | Pedal steel players do much the same kind of thing , but they 're lucky because they 've got loads of strings to play around with ; when you 're a guitar player and you 're down to six , you have to break it down and come up with some simpler versions . ’ |
| 58 | ‘ Do you think they 're pretty when they stand up like this ? ’ |
| 59 | And then but also with the poor peasants I mean you , you 've given them a , enough land so that they , they still ca n't meet subsistence , given them some land but not enough , but you know because they 're resourceful and they 've got other things that they , they do n't need to have enough land to give subsistence , they 'd rather go and do something else and make it up . |
| 60 | Surely the whole point about Telecasters is that they 're tough , they 're basic and they sound ace , and how can you really play a Tele if you 're worried about scratching the thing ? |