Example sentences of "they be [noun] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most perching songbirds ( passerine birds ) have to hear their species ’ songs when they are chicks in order to produce normal songs as adults . |
| 2 | To that first question , there is the answer that necessarily they are spatio-temporal-things in space and time . |
| 3 | In terms of Parry and Parry 's definition , they are professions in name only . |
| 4 | Various studies have shown that the public evaluate the police in terms of the attitude the police show them when they are victims in need of police help ( for example , Jones 1983 ; Maguire 1982 ; Shapland 1982 ; Southgate and Ekblom 1984 ) . |
| 5 | They 're they 're tongue in cheek going across the recreation ground , thinking that we 're going to pounce on them because they 're not allowed in there . |
| 6 | In other words , they were sheep in wolf 's clothing . |
| 7 | They were socialists in exile from Czechoslovakia , and unknown to them their son crept out of the house in his pyjamas every Friday and Saturday night to hear uncouth music . |
| 8 | They were hand in hand , about a yard apart , swinging their joined hands high and indulging in a tug-of-war every time they encountered a lamp-post or a tree . |