Example sentences of "they [be] [noun sg] and [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are bar and beach holidays cruelly interrupted by visits to view the spacious rooms and extensive facilities of a recently-constructed hotel , or to inspect a distant beach . |
| 2 | On the contrary , they are speculation and interpretation congealed into a tradition , and it is this tradition which is constantly mistaken for fact . |
| 3 | Should n't you put Mrs and Mr cos they are man and wife . |
| 4 | I do n't mind the idea of doing love scenes if they are part and parcel of the job and not inserted for sensational reasons . |
| 5 | It was one of the temple 's functions to produce these effects and they are part and parcel of the Minoan religious experience ; the temple itself was in a very real sense an extreme expression of that experience . |
| 6 | Awareness of environmental issues is being introduced into undergraduate teaching , across all Faculties , and not only in those subjects , such as earth sciences , biological sciences , agriculture , geography and ecology , of which they are part and parcel . |
| 7 | Ministers regularly say that the opted-out units are independent , so the Minister can not then argue that they are part and parcel of the structure . |
| 8 | where they go , and that the education they receive , they are part and parcel of it |
| 9 | No doubt people must study management or business ; but until they cross the boundaries of the social or economic sciences — until the knowledge becomes such as is sought for its own sake and organised to illuminate human life and history — management and business studies are not education ; and then they are management and business studies no longer . |
| 10 | I can not explain how it feels they may not be human , but they are flesh and blood . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Now they are husband and wife they must spend the rest of their life together . ’ |
| 12 | In our own solar system , only two planets out of nine provide conditions that could sustain life , and they are Earth and Mars . |
| 13 | Because they are diversion and deferment |
| 14 | And then they 're gas and air , they put the gas and air er er the ambulance and all . |
| 15 | ‘ Actually they 're meat and coconut , just mixed together with a touch of coriander . |
| 16 | Could be crucial this , Wall Street and the Losers , they 're neck and neck here you know . |
| 17 | ‘ They 're brother and sister . |
| 18 | You know how difficult it is for two women to live together , especially if they 're mother and daughter . |
| 19 | It was like they were strangers , and they 're mother and daughter . |
| 20 | The lions were both crowned , to show they were king and queen . |
| 21 | They were cheese and onion . |
| 22 | They were boy and girl together , as innocent as Adam and Eve . |
| 23 | In temperament , however , they were ice and fire . |
| 24 | So these women were coming Well they were man and wife aye from London Tottenham Court she lived . |
| 25 | I mean from rig to rig things work differently and I mean on on Piper , I would say there were probably things that could have been tightened up but then again I do n't think they were part and parcel of what happened and there on July the sixth . |
| 26 | Both glanced at her curiously , and she guessed that they were brother and sister , with the same large , rather vacant brown eyes , and amiable bovine faces . |
| 27 | Anyone could tell they were brother and sister they were so much alike , except that he had a little goatee beard on his chin . |
| 28 | Although there was nine years between them , there was no doubt that they were brother and sister ; they each had the same deep intense eyes that were their dead father 's legacy , and Patrick had inherited his father 's square chin , and wiry black hair . |
| 29 | The partnership between the two was never a comfortable one — as personalities they were chalk and cheese — but politically it was immensely successful and entirely crucial to the Government up to 1983 . |
| 30 | So they were half-brother and sister . |