Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [be] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 These ‘ id-impulses ’ may be either for ‘ perverse ’ sexual acts which sometimes can not even be admitted to consciousness as acts which the person desires , or they may be impulses of sadism and destructiveness .
2 But he is also aware that they may be conceptions of the good life for people generally and for society as a whole .
3 According to this conception , ideas may be internal sensations like pain ; they may be perceptions of external objects and their qualities .
4 Second , even if nuclear families do inhabit separate houses , they may be part of a joint family : ‘ A joint family may consist of several branches living as separate households in different residences but pooling their incomes , all the major decisions relating to finance , ceremony performances and marriages , etc. being taken jointly ’ ( Anwar , 1979 , p. 55 ) .
5 Other addictive relationships such as some sexual practices may be branded by society as being definitely abnormal or even criminal , yet there is evidence that they may be part of the broad spectrum of addictive disease and therefore outside the personal control of the individual sufferer .
6 This is particularly true of regulations in heavily regulated fields such as agriculture , where they may be part of a long string of related measures or be limited to implementing a regulation of broader scope .
7 The receptor for TGLP-1 in the rat gastric mucosa seems to be different from that for glucagon-29 , but they may be part of a closely related family .
8 They may be remnants of severe tidal encounters or even mergers between normal stars .
9 They may , for example , all be functions of time , so that we must write A = A(t) ; they may be functions of a parameter , typified by unc when the elements are rational integral functions of{ gl } , the matrix is called a lambda-matrix ; or the elements may themselves ( especially for vectors ) be independent variables .
10 She may know that her tears will relieve her tension more effectively than shouting back or pretending not to notice , or they may be tears of anger rather than the vulnerability so despised by her colleagues .
11 ‘ We 're headin' for the guys who 're doin' all the shootin' up ahead … the ones we hid from in the tunnel back there … they must be friends of his … maybe cops or somethin' … if Angel One did n't want them to find us … ’
12 They now had no idea where they were except that they must be east of the Ridgery and well to the west of where they believed the outlaws ' Camp to be .
13 They now had no idea where they were except that they must be east of the Ridgery and well to the west of where they believed the outlaws ' Camp to be .
14 They must be parts of a united attitude .
15 Cavity wall insulation is one of those difficult jobs which has to be left to the experts and , ideally , to make sure the job is done properly , they should be members of the National Cavity Insulation Association .
16 In other words , the basic premise behind the establishment of RMCs was that they should be centres of excellence , performing a co-ordinating role for the provision of management education and its development in their regions .
17 But they 'll be carvings of a most odd nature . ’
18 They 'll they 'll be part of erm either Nottinghamshire County Council or
19 If this new regulation comes through they 'll be part of a new seat but if in fact they do n't have this regulation come into effect they 'll belong to another s and when you 've had in fact in Southend say the lowest recorded percentage voting of any constituency in England at the last Euro elections I think it 's terrible important we should in fact explain to people whether this is likely to happen .
20 Many of the famous escape tunnels still exist , they 'll be part of the attraction .
21 and they 'll be loads of room to fit in
22 and they 're gon na be , they 'll be sort of down in this area you know
23 I 'm worried that they might be school maths teachers ; but the really terrifying prospect is that they might be designers of ships or bridges .
24 His strength was his obsessive single-mindedness , his refusal to be diverted by what at that moment were secondary issues ( even though they might be issues of far greater importance in the medium or long term ) .
25 Cleveland Police are warning smokers to beware of offers of cheap cigarettes as they could be part of a hoard stolen from a storeroom in Morgan Drive , Guisborough .
26 It is possible they could be copies of a well known make called Valentino .
27 It has even been suggested that some coral reefs , which it will be recalled are mostly dead coral and debris , are being destroyed rather than built up : they could be relics of higher sea levels .
28 So even though they could be sort of twenty five ?
29 Well he 's sold her a set of patio doors and told them they 'd be sort of six to eight weeks delivery .
30 One-Year courses represented a prestigious category and the formal requirements for grant-aid were similar to those for preparatory Tutorial Classes without the expectation that they would be precursors of three-year Tutorial Classes .
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