Example sentences of "they [be] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above them are the Doctors of the Church and some wonderful vases . |
| 2 | The only characters which appears to separate them are the scaling of the disk , which is formed of imbricating plates in O. retecta but non-imbricating plates in Ophiochondrus , and the covering of thick skin over the jaws and ventral part of the arm in O. retecta which is absent in Ophioxhonseua . |
| 3 | It is this that bears on my father 's second question-how to contain the uncontainable : producing these extremes and then controlling and containing them are the problems . |
| 4 | Below them are the fuel cock levers , and ahead of them are the emergency undercarriage buttons and extend/retract knob for alternate airbrake operation . |
| 5 | The indifference of Limnititzkers to the great outdoors is well-known ; the only landscapes that interest them are the hills of a totally discorporeal Zion . |
| 6 | Foremost among them are the Queen and the class bully . |
| 7 | The latter measures are much more difficult to obtain , and relationships between them are the subject of this chapter . |
| 8 | The only ‘ heartless muggers ’ who will really try to stop them are the likes of Norman Tebbit . |
| 9 | All around them are the forestastes of the Europeannesswhich , even if they do n't opt for it , is certainly the one they are going to get . |
| 10 | Among them are the India Mark II , Britain 's Consallen , the Madzi pump ( a modified version of the Zimbabwean Blair pump ) and also the lesser-known but very promising Malawi handpump . |
| 11 | Beyond them are the also-rans , other disaffected characters , who were on the receiving end of tempting , exciting , ego-boosting telephone calls which were never subsequently followed up , from headhunters of whom they never heard anything again . |
| 12 | All chintz curtains and birdcages in the windows , many of them are the homes of old railwaymen who sit by the fire , dreaming of Gresley Pacifics and Stanier Jubilees . |
| 13 | if we book er , any , er , erm , a deal with them through P & O European Ferries , if we book one car and a person on a standard return fare crossing , they 'll give you a free five day return to be used on the same route in the autumn them are the deal with exclusive to the A A so do n't just get across once , cruise across twice |
| 14 | Among them are the burgeoning of musical writing ; the involvement of an increasing number of people in making music ; in some places the improvement of quality , and the dedication of many choirs , organists , directors , instrumentalists , composers and clergy to the cause of music in worship . |
| 15 | Beneath them are The Rowdies , a group of boys aged between 12 and 17 . |
| 16 | Below them are the fuel cock levers , and ahead of them are the emergency undercarriage buttons and extend/retract knob for alternate airbrake operation . |
| 17 | Among them are the Tim Burton-produced Family Dog , the ‘ fish noir ’ ( really ) Fish Police from Hanna Barbera , and the Whitehouse-set satire Aristocritters from Steven Hill Street Blues Bucho |
| 18 | ‘ Them be the Barnes family , ’ whispered Tom as a group of men and women came on in behind them . |
| 19 | Again the response to the violent forging through the press and public outside the court by the accused 's ‘ minders ’ had they been the heavies of more traditional villains is open to speculation . |
| 20 | Religious ideologies also might prepare their adherents to believe that they are the élite chosen to be saved . |
| 21 | They are the fraction of whom we know most . |
| 22 | They are the inclusion of the Asylum Bill and the absence of any commitment to action against what we still — inappropriately — refer to , as the Home Secretary did today , as joyriding . |
| 23 | They are the spectacle , the no longer simple but excessive , ‘ perverse ’ pleasure of current cinema . |
| 24 | They are the chimes and clocks and calendars of the trees for they mark the seasons and arouse the trees from their long slumbers and announce the dawns . |
| 25 | Such statements are culturally and historically specific , and while their meanings are not fixed or static , in the twentieth century they are the products of capitalism , imperialism , and patriarchy . |
| 26 | The categories of both science and materialism are abstractions from reality , they are the products of consciousness and as such must be , to follow Marx and Engels ' rubric , ‘ sublimates of their material life process ’ . |
| 27 | Since they are the products of continuous evolution , the practices which survive are those which enhance the reproductive fitness of those groups . |
| 28 | They are the rules which enable members to choose between possible modes of conduct available to them and to maintain a sense of propriety and social legitimacy . |
| 29 | In the first place , the rules by which the group lives will not form a system , but will simply be a set of separate standards , without any identifying or common mark , except of course that they are the rules which a particular group of human beings accepts . |
| 30 | According to Kmart 's senior management , it also helps to reassure employees in each of the company 's 2,300 discount stores that they are the masters of Kmart 's computer universe , not its servants . |