Example sentences of "they [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd none of them been lucky with men . |
| 2 | These seem to be the topics that engage most of my time , and there is no evidence that any of them are freakish , minority interests . |
| 3 | However , most of them are argillaceous and have limited porosity and permeability . |
| 4 | But most of them are confidential . |
| 5 | And if Graham Taylor sticks with the Wright-Shearer partnership , England wo n't go far wrong in their World Cup qualifying group because both of them are international class . |
| 6 | In societies where there is a strong emphasis on certain goals , but where the means for obtaining them are unavailable to most citizens , the result is a situation of anomie ; a situation , in other words , where the rules and standards governing behaviour have lost their influence and force and are liable to be ignored , and where shared norms or rules no longer determine and direct behaviour . |
| 7 | I continue to have doubts about Newsome 's competence , though he is alright when the rest of them are confident . |
| 8 | Many of them are powerful gringo media barons . |
| 9 | In the terms discussed in Chapter 2 during our reinterpretation of the Chicago School , these groups convert certain districts in what for them are front regions . |
| 10 | Prison visits are too short and the facilities available for them are inadequate . |
| 11 | Other additions , we did earlier Chair , and that is we have received a mental illness specific grant , erm , on a number of schemes but they have been time limited , and they are due to cease , some of them are due to cease in the coming year . |
| 12 | Knowledgeable boxing fans know that most of them are meaningless . |
| 13 | Some of them are absolute rubbish some of them are very very very good . |
| 14 | Too many of them are visual firework displays without an emotional centre , or a coherent narrative structure . |
| 15 | In contrast , the position of an excited tactile , visual , or auditory receptor is all-important and the commonest patterns among them are spatial . |
| 16 | They only occupy 2% of the total agricultural area however , and a large number of them are part-time or retirement farms and constitute no great economic problem whilst many , particularly in southern France , are quite intensive and may provide reasonable family incomes . |
| 17 | On the staff side we have recruited nine individuals , er , but since we 've lost three members of staff at the same time , that is a net increase of six , and since most of them are part-time , there 's actually only three full-time equivalents , we 've been able to do that entirely within the we had on establishments at work . |
| 18 | Many of them are part-time workers and many have had their already small number of hours reduced further . |
| 19 | The tadpoles that develop from them are complete with mouths and external gills and they feed within the oviduct on tiny white flakes secreted from its walls , nibbling them just as though they were independent creatures browsing in a tiny pond . |
| 20 | Some of them are involved in drawing up legislation which is based on the new communication policy . |
| 21 | Some of them are involved in drawing up legislation which is based on the new communication policy . |
| 22 | To this hidden land come Leo Vincey and Holly after twenty years of wandering in search of the goddess woman and here the pair of them are involved with the rebellion of Atene and her husband against the secret ruler Ayesha , now called He s ( or Isis ) . |
| 23 | ‘ The space-time continuum has eleven dimensions , ’ Legion replied , ‘ although four of them are inaccessible . ’ |
| 24 | Most of them are illegal because two queens conflict . |
| 25 | ‘ All of them are vulnerable to coastal erosion and are being nibbled away by the sea . |
| 26 | Deferred shares obviate a reduction of capital , and the rights attaching to them are negligible . |
| 27 | Fruits and vegetables , even in their raw , unprocessed state , differ so much that you certainly ca n't say that all of them are useful sources of fibre . |
| 28 | There were seven of us from Wales er and two of them are present here this afternoon . |
| 29 | Places associated with them are identifiable in the adaptation of stathr or bolstadr , a farm , into the suffix ‘ ster ’ , as in Camster and Shebster in Caithness , and ‘ bister ’ as in Fladdabister in Shetland . |
| 30 | but some of them are repulsive |