Example sentences of "[conj] they be [noun] of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government fail to appreciate — although they are prisoners of their own rhetoric and ideology — several important points which others readily grasp and would clearly like to do something about . |
| 2 | She realized she had never seen the servants before except as part of the backdrop of Summer Lodge , now she saw that they were part of her life , real people with loves and loyalties especially to her and it made her feel suddenly humble . |
| 3 | Because the device drivers operate at DOS level , the new drives appear as additional drives to the client machine — in both DOS and Windows — so much so that you could be forgiven for thinking that they were part of your machine . |
| 4 | but er I think that they were part of your pay rise one year was it ? |
| 5 | Owing to Amal 's seclusion as a female , she could not identify her attackers by name , only that they were acquaintances of her brother . |
| 6 | The tentative explanation came to be accepted by the men that they were victims of what they called ‘ the Northern Ireland Office 's numbers game ’ . |
| 7 | Yeah well I du n no I 'm dreading the Easter holidays cos I 've got like erm we 're probably gon na have about two hundred pieces of coursework to mark over Easter then there 's , and they 're sort of you know projecty things and things like that erm and then there 's first week next term there 's like all these second year social , which is well over a hundred of them plus about forty final year projects will come in , plus about I 'm hoping it 'll only be twenty things from Loughborough but it might be as many as , as fifty if the other person gives me all their marking er as they have , they 've given some indication that they will |
| 8 | It 's like this film I seen about these penguins — you know , how they all lived together on this island , and they was loads of them , all jammed together . |
| 9 | I think perhaps not if they are part of our mystery . ’ |
| 10 | The skills and disciplines to deliver each of these elements is available in Scotland , but will only be effectively utilised if they are part of our overall tourism strategy under one board and not , as now , with a variety of organisations working in partial isolation , and indeed often in competition . |
| 11 | She had seen them through a strange fuzzy blankness , as if they were constructs of her subconscious which were being projected against her closed eyelids . |
| 12 | Yeah , they 're quite soft anyway it just felt as if they were sort of my toes were sort of jammed up against the end but |
| 13 | She was to refer to them wryly as her ‘ yearly knitting ’ , but they are classics of their kind , deftly constructed with strong characterization and a meticulous prose style . |
| 14 | But they were symptoms of what was happening , not an analysis of the problem . |
| 15 | Although they are characters they can not move or fight on their own , because they are part of their Mob . |
| 16 | We want them back because they are part of our livelihood . |
| 17 | Yeah , yeah , more immediately , but I mean when they 're sort of it has |
| 18 | Thus , contemporary peoples living in distant areas are viewed as though they were relics of one 's own past ( Fabian 1983 ) . |