Example sentences of "[that] they be [pron] " in BNC.

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1 That they 're what this is all about . ’
2 Yes yeah it 's basically a question there to ensure that people do n't just put down that they 're whatever they 're doing just purely
3 against them on the grounds that they 're they 're crawly
4 Having lived on the flats , how do you feel about the fact that they 're they 're going to be coming down ?
5 Well presumably the reason why the men do the hunting is that they 're they figure they 're more aggressive and are not gon na be pregnant or incumbent to children .
6 I think that 's true what Yona says you know it it is Cos you know I the sort of the political people of the town tend to be councillors who are er men mainly and set in their ways and think that because they 've got the label councillor behind you know b front of their name that they 're they are for life you know it 's And they 're sort of respectable inverted commas members of the community and you know and I mean I hope that out of out of all this I mean it 's it 's a shame it has to happen in such a desperate situation you know because I mean none of us can really feel glad that Because to be on strike is I mean each day is is hard I 'm sure for well I mean I can only say because to be close to people on strike it 's quite a unique thing really for me and i you become so involved and close to people and you realize how hard it is for them .
7 Er that they 're they 're not the figures that ei either the county or ourselves started from .
8 You have a set of notes here now I 'm not gon na start at page one and work right through to page whatever it is erm they are there for you to take away for you to make notes during these two days er and for you to take away so that they 're they 're for revision and er there are as Bob 's just discovering pages where a I 'll ask you to make make specific notes er that I 'll supply to you as we go along .
9 So he suddenly found that he preferred to write poems but what he 's actually saying in that essay , is that he thinks poems are living things , just as animals are and that they 're they 're difficult to catch .
10 Er I 've got the text of those here , I do n't propose to go through it all now , but if anybody er you know wants to have a look at that they 're they 're welcome .
11 I know that they 're they 're
12 I 'll give you a dish , yeah I know , I know you 're not to open them but I 'm just making sure that you know that they 're yours , now do you want a dish or not ?
13 Erm , this was in fact something you know , coming from , I think the feminist movement and very much a a it was quite new for middle class women to go out and work , and you know they are now aghast that they 're you know , having to juggle all these things but these were traditions that had in fact , been handed down .
14 It 's not that they 're his nappies and he wets them — it 's nothing to do with that — it 's just that they 're endless .
15 It 's quite a while now since I 've bored you with a few observations about our friends the dumb animals who share their lives with us on the planet and the more you observe them the more convinced you become that they 're anything but dumb .
16 And it appears from what the county council has said that they are they 're not necessarily opposed to this sort of development that we 're we 're looking at here but that er the case would have to be proven as an exception to normal planning policy .
17 When these feelings are internalized , ageing people too readily believe that they are what they are , and they are likely to remain that way .
18 That they are their own sun
19 If you are going to take notes , let the candidate know at this stage , explain that you do it for all the candidates , and that they are nothing sinister but simply a memory aid .
20 We can only guess at Allan Lamb 's motives for his article in the Daily Mirror , but we hope that they are nothing so base as money or even worse our nationality .
21 According to Dunsire ( 1982 , p. 15 ) , ‘ quango-hunting ’ has since 1979 ‘ become a Conservative blood-sport , under the illusion that they are nothing but wasteful ‘ empire-building ’ ' .
22 This ‘ bad faith ’ operates among the doctors and pharmacists who allow their knowledge and skill to be abused ; among the politicians who wish to see themselves as community benefactors , while knowing full well that they are nothing of the sort ; and even among the poor who are so often critical of the medical ‘ care ’ they receive yet continue to hold out for a medical solution to their social and economic problems .
23 It is , emerges that they are her cousins and that Jane has inherited money from an uncle .
24 The view that they are one appears mainly in the writings of the British and Irish Communist Organization ( 1972 ; 1973 ) .
25 Of the many marble figures offered to Athena on the Acropolis some have attributes of the goddess , but the great majority are girls with nothing to suggest that they are she ; many have inscriptions showing that they were given by men ; and they seem to be simply themselves , servants or companions for the deity .
26 Nothing that they can do can alter the fact that they are our responsibility .
27 And , and the same is true with , with the economic bit , that they are there 's a prohibition on sending grain out to the market , out of the area because that will help the peasantry within the area y your prohibition on increasing rents and deposits , agitating for , for reduced rents and deposits , prohibition on cancelling tenancies reduction of interest , it , it , it 's the cl it 's the classic restorationist position is n't it ?
28 And therefore most people are , are , are so , you know , concerned about their , their particular out , you know , what 's going to happen , are , does their government know that they are there ? er What 's going to happen when they get back into India , Sri Lanka , Bangladesh , Philippines or , or Pakistan or wherever .
29 That 's what a great library is all about … books so magnificent that they are your pride and joy … a statement about you .
30 Most drama books write of children ‘ playing a part ’ , ‘ playing someone else ’ , ‘ taking on a character ’ , whereas what is required of children in drama ( or at least , in the dramatic playing mode ) is that they be themselves , functioning in whatever way the situation demands of them .
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