Example sentences of "they be an [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stellenbosch Farmers may sound like some sort of village team but they are an invitation XI , most of whom have played representative cricket in South Africa or abroad . |
| 2 | Big'uns do have to test as they are an Orc Mob . |
| 3 | In a number of ways they are an elite group who have reached the pinnacle of academic achievement by securing one of the scarce places in one of the 1,054 institutions of higher education . |
| 4 | Admittedly , Interpol 's writ does n't run worldwide — they would have zero clout in places , say , like Tripoli , Tehran or Beirut — and they are an information gathering and dispensing agency not an executive unit , and they know more about bad people than any other group in the world . |
| 5 | Well they 're an insurance company are n't they ? |
| 6 | They were very much caught up in the opinion that if they were an indie band , it could n't possibly be worth a major record company taking them seriously . |