Example sentences of "they [adv] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( B ) in their design office and the three defendants ( A ) were officials of the A.E.S.D. Union , two of them also being employees of B.O.A.C. C had been but was no longer a member of the Union . |
| 2 | It is interesting therefore to note that the chief emotional and behavioural characteristic of them both is timidity , fearfulness , and retreat in the face of perceived danger . |
| 3 | What surprised them both was Rosemary 's reaction on retesting food . |
| 4 | There are one or two clerks , er that have male , purely because it 's , it 's their job anyway , and er the chief clerk headquarters is a male but the majority of them now are women yep , and they do well er , headquarters staff do it very well I think , that side of it . |
| 5 | The strips of course are not complete , exact rectangles ; that would be asking too much , but they obviously are strips , and obviously are symmetrical about the ridge axis — each black strip left of the axis can be matched with a similar black strip of equal width on the right of the axis , at the same distance from it . |
| 6 | Should they be seen as the overall enforcers of the regulations , or should they merely be ombudsmen or watchdogs that only act on customer complaints ? |
| 7 | And most of these folk , were they just being farm workers or croppers or |
| 8 | The paper asks : ‘ Can they just be traders on some sort of spot market or ought the release to be limited to those intending to sell to the final consumer ? |
| 9 | we 're talking about abortion , who 's responsibility it was , erm they just were nay prepared to put forward their opinions . |
| 10 | But I 've left that sort of civil liberty out of this motion today , because we ca n't deal with all the , because we ca n't deal with everything all at once , but perhaps it can be tou touched at council , because we had Colonel , who also does n't like to be confused with the facts , trying to tell us that next year the , or the year after next , budgets will be cash limited , but I 've got news , they already are cash limited . |
| 11 | Are they still being smartarses ? |
| 12 | Well er , well they were they always was rubbers since they was , it 's proba it 's a teatle actually . |
| 13 | These men — these Europeans -were not Han , nor had they ever been Han . |
| 14 | The biologists and applied scientists are involved in the schemes in that they also are part of the resource that one would consider in the university to give talks to school children . |
| 15 | ‘ And even if they really are fakes — synthetic fur — ’ she was on a roll now' — it 's made from petrochemicals and they 're non-biodegradable and therefore damaging to the environment . ’ |
| 16 | Most of those ones you can audit , they really are procedures we 've had in place for a year but have been audited before and have had minor changes to erm , the wording . |
| 17 | They really are entertainers . |
| 18 | They really were part of the unquestioned reality of the culture of the state . |
| 19 | The clothes one wears , the ‘ room of one 's own ’ in the Sunday Supplements : one may , apparently , now ‘ try on ’ identities as if they really were clothes . |
| 20 | They really were rejects , zero contributors , the unlovely and the unemployable . |
| 21 | ‘ What a beautiful young woman , ’ the young man thought , and , unaware of their own narcissism , they sat on either side of the pinewood table for all the world as if they really were twins , recently separated and reuniting in astonishment . |
| 22 | Indeed , many of them experienced agonies of self-doubt ; all too aware of their inadequacies as Christians , they threw themselves headlong into acts of piety and charity in order to prove to themselves that they really were God 's elect . |
| 23 | But even so , if they really were super-beings , how could anyone manage to steal from them ? |
| 24 | These unlicensed patches make unwarranted claims of therapeutic efficacy and imply that they are comparable with licensed products in all but price , yet they either are placebos or deliver nicotine in amounts unlikely to relieve withdrawal significantly . |
| 25 | They run in the opposite direction to the positive reactions , although there is a sense in which they too are fixations to the original trauma . |
| 26 | They too are part of the Nature which brings life into being . |
| 27 | To equate the will of the people with the will of the majority may often be a justifiable piece of political shorthand ; but those in a minority , whether it be on a particular issue or in a more long-term and fundamental way , are always entitled to remind the rest of society that they too are part of " the people " . |
| 28 | Dulé took a path westwards , following the shore , with Belmont on their right to the north and the burning ship behind them ; as they drew nearer , the sounds of battle made the ground shake , and when they stood still , the percussion of the fighting vibrated through them , as if they too were strings stretched over shells and struck . |
| 29 | The British , it says in effect , were like the Nazis ; they too were war criminals . |
| 30 | They too were six-wheelers . |