Example sentences of "they be [noun pl] [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are actions which appear irrelevant to the circumstances , and are generally performed at times of motivational conflict . |
| 2 | To take examples from either side of the Atlantic , both Tom Peters ( 1988 ) and Charles Handy ( 1989 ) are beginning to suggest very different approaches to management , and interestingly they are approaches which reflect far more accurately the needs for collegiate management in schools . |
| 3 | Those coke ones are yours now , they 're not , they are ones we do n't do without . |
| 4 | They are writers who have parted company , but who are in some ways at one . |
| 5 | They are phrases which indicate a topic of interest ( i.e. your focus ) and at the same time point towards a particular kind of discussion ( i.e. your mode of argument ) . |
| 6 | Freud came to see , later , that human beings are not predisposed to admit that they are organisms which die and are destructive any more than they had been prepared to admit that young children , under five years of age , were sexual . |
| 7 | Possibly they are birds which have failed to breed successfully and have assembled here to moult . |
| 8 | Of course , many workers in adult education are also feminists — they may be the anti-sexist male variety — but on the whole they are women who want adult education to respond to the concerns of the women 's movement . |
| 9 | They are women who have learnt to defend themselves , who are directly affected by central and local government policies , price speculation and the economic situation of the country . |
| 10 | They are idealizations which serve to ‘ cover and to evade the actual and bitter contradictions of the time ’ ( Williams , 1973 , p. 45 ) . |
| 11 | They are siblings who feel they have to disagree violently with mother to demonstrate their own independence . |
| 12 | They are things we tell our eyes or our muscles and limbs to do : much practised , they probably come more readily , but the body needs constant reminding . |
| 13 | They are things we know about ; God knows what else there is ! ’ |
| 14 | They are dervishes who call upon the name of God . |
| 15 | They are beings who live in plants , trees , and flowers . |
| 16 | The examples of ( 32 ) are simply associatives , as treated above in Chapter 2 : ( 32 ) a criminal lawyer subterranean explorer electrical worker 6.6 This leaves us with a small number of other phrases such as those in ( 33 ) , which turn out to be worth further investigation : ( 33 ) a true poet our late president a sheer fraud a real friend the future king my old school We certainly agree that there is an intuitively different " feel " to these , and a few others which can be found in the corps of English adjectives , and we would agree also that this has something to do with the distinction between referent ( or entity ) and sense ; however , we can not agree with Bolinger 's verdict that they are adjectives which qualify sense only . |
| 17 | According to pragmatism what we call legal rights are only the servants of the best future : they are instruments we construct for that purpose and have no independent force or ground . |
| 18 | They are books which bring together all three of the worlds we inhabit , and they are books which appear to thrive on being seen through — on the transparency of their suggestion that tyrannies , that sycophancy , conspiracy and repression , courts and courtiers , are all on the royal right , and in the bush , and running into the sand . |
| 19 | They are books which bring together all three of the worlds we inhabit , and they are books which appear to thrive on being seen through — on the transparency of their suggestion that tyrannies , that sycophancy , conspiracy and repression , courts and courtiers , are all on the royal right , and in the bush , and running into the sand . |
| 20 | These are not baby habits , but they are habits which have a link with babyhood experiences . |
| 21 | ‘ They have been treated , therefore , as persons in a different situation from mere contractors for then they would have been exempt , but in truth they are purchasers who have acquired an interest not in a mere chattel , but in a subject of a permanent nature … ’ |
| 22 | They are practices which ensure that those who have the advantage of a network of friends and relations in secure employment will have a better chance of obtaining jobs than those who have a network of friends and relations who have suffered long-term unemployment . |
| 23 | They are immigrants who travel across the world breaking down the moral order , bringing chaos to organized society . |
| 24 | Looking back , they would have done a few things quite differently , but they certainly did not conform to the view taken by some authorities that they encountered , that they are children who have ruined their lives and wasted their education . |
| 25 | If they were working they 'd be going to discos , but because they ca n't work they stay at home , and because they 're girls they do the housework , though they feel they are doing somebody else 's housework . |
| 26 | There are games in our region and as you rightly say they 're great for us but er I would n't say that they 're Derbies I mean the Derbies are are Birmingham West Brom and West Brom |
| 27 | Oh they 're diggers I think they 're diggers . |
| 28 | They 're strippers you know . |
| 29 | But they do n't speak any English , I do n't speak any Arabic , so I 'm gesturing away about the bar-tailed lark and not being able to go into the forbidden zone , and somehow or other the leader understands what I 'm going on about and makes me understand that because they 're nomads they do n't have to follow international boundaries . |
| 30 | But they 're , I do n't think they 're seconds I think they 're over makes . |