Example sentences of "they [vb mod] be [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he has done is describe certain linguistic features of the text which distinguish it from other texts ( he refers to Yeats 's ‘ Phoenix ’ and Tennyson 's , ‘ Morte d'Arthur ’ , as well as instances of non-literary usage ) , and which look as if they may be of some literary significance ; but he leaves it to the literary specialist to determine what the nature of that literary significance is . |
| 2 | However different they may be from those involved in habituation , the training procedures used in studies of acquired distinctiveness necessarily involve the subjects in receiving repeated exposure to the critical stimuli . |
| 3 | ‘ If I do n't win , they must be in bloody good shape … |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't think they 'd be in any real danger as long as you lock up securely . |
| 5 | And although subsequent reviews found it thoroughly sane and quite uncontroversial , clerics of the Church of England publicly announced that they would be on standby alert to deal with any members of their congregation upset by the programmes . |
| 6 | And they would be like that scorched bread . |
| 7 | The former is not crucial unless time and energy efficient paddling are important ( which they will be on big open crossings ) but the latter is a more serious problem , particularly when trying to keep on a bearing in a big sea . |
| 8 | Orrell have an attractive home game with Leicester although they will be without several star players . |