Example sentences of "they be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | men who are heavily involved in jural-political , overt and conscious structure are not free to meditate and speculate on the combinations and oppositions of thought ; they are themselves too crucially involved in the combinations and oppositions of social and political structure and stratification . |
| 2 | The withdrawal of earlier death has been so marked that today most English people will have no direct experience of the grief of bereavement until they lose their own parents , when they are themselves well into middle age . |
| 3 | Fear of rejection by one or both parents experienced in early life will make this person seem outwardly aloof and totally in control , fiercely independent , never showing weakness to the outside world and rejecting others before they are themselves rejected . |
| 4 | They are themselves helical , with a pitch that decreases uniformally towards the outside , and they are torsion structures held together in part at least by forces generated by the attempts of individual bacteria to untwist . |
| 5 | Not only do they record the history of their localities , they are themselves the product of history , played on a far wider stage . |
| 6 | But they assume that deep down , ‘ human potential ’ is universal , and that because they address this potential , they are themselves irreproachably feminist . |
| 7 | Thus , despite their apparent primacy and the universal significance given to them in criminological research , they are themselves dependent on the pre-existence and effective operation of other controls . |
| 8 | Not surprisingly , therefore , they are themselves drab creatures dressed in browns and greys , olive green and steel blue . |
| 9 | Children who come into care through the courts are committed to the care of the local authority either because they are themselves offenders , or because they are the victims of offences or because they are found in need of care . |
| 10 | There are a number of tortured perspectives on how to get round this problem , but they are themselves fraught with problems . |
| 11 | They are themselves prominent actors in the rationalization of a number of industries in crisis , notably steel and shipbuilding . |
| 12 | They have move from the rock into her eyes and into her head and so they are hers . |
| 13 | No , they are their allies . |
| 14 | Rawls often writes of individuals ' conceptions of the good as if they are their views of the good life for themselves . |
| 15 | Players can be real snobs about names , too , so they are their own worst enemies . |
| 16 | That they are their own sun |
| 17 | she was one of the first anyway , so er , but it took a long time before she had them , five years ' wait , and she said , that , at the last attempt she said to her husband that 's it now , if it does n't work this time , that 's it , I 'm not having any more attempts , that 's it definitely , and they had that successfully and that 's how they had the twins , so they 're her children , they are their children , it 's just they were fertilized outside the womb , in a glass dish it 's fascinating i n't it ? she said it 's really fascinating I can assure you I said oh I can see |
| 18 | I 'm not , I 'm not just blaming them all the time , I mean , the situation is , when they go out on the field , they are their own men , I ca n't do anything about there , I ca n't talk for them out there ; I can only put it on in training , and when they get out there , they 've got to do it theirselves . |
| 19 | The view that they are one appears mainly in the writings of the British and Irish Communist Organization ( 1972 ; 1973 ) . |
| 20 | They are one in nine hundred similar food outlets in Cotswold District we deal with them all even handedly but where there are problems we have a statutory responsibility to deal with them |
| 21 | Political polls account for only six per cent of the research industry 's business , but they are its most visible — and accountable — manifestation . |
| 22 | The Crime Survey is a victimisation study and its main conclusion is one that has been noted , in a less systematic way , many times before : working-class crime is a problem , and it is a problem for the working class , since they are its principal victims , as they are of all types of crime : |
| 23 | The sums of money that have to be paid for these efforts and sacrifices will be called either its money cost of production , or , for shortness , its expenses of production ; they are the prices which have to be paid in order to call forth an adequate supply of the efforts and waitings that are required for making it ; or , in other words , they are its supply price . |
| 24 | When Nietzsche is quoted directly as arguing that " tropes are not something that can be added or subtracted from language at will ; they are its truest nature " , de Man 's paraphrase seems innocuous : The mode of paraphrase frees de Man from the obligation of theoretical presence in his discourse while still allowing him to translate Nietzsche 's text into the terms of his own problematic . |
| 25 | New-sightedness , the timeless standpoint , ‘ hitherto unknown reality ’ — these have an air of mystical hubris when dragged into the open , but they are what Dostoevsky is really talking about . |
| 26 | Perceptions are not the same thing as knowledge , but they are what the holder of the perception believes to be knowledge . |
| 27 | Though they are what is commonly called our enemies , yet , if they make proper use of what I have laboured for , let them enjoy it with the blessing of God . |
| 28 | A duvet is more practical than sheets , blankets and eiderdown , although the patient may prefer them if they are what he is used to . |
| 29 | In the broadest sense they are what Edington and Edington ( 1986 ) describe as ‘ active physical pursuits ’ such as skiing , climbing and sailing . |
| 30 | If they are what one might call the ‘ young ’ elderly , who are still keeping afloat very happily in the mainstream of life and enjoying their independence , the problems are few . |