Example sentences of "[be] a [noun sg] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , I think every women sho , here should be proud to say they 're a feminist if they believe in equal rights for theirself , and it 's only men that use in the derogatory way . |
| 2 | I , I get the feeling that because they do n't really know especially if you 're caught pissing around in quad , yeah , and er it 's by a teacher that you do n't know , a ma or a master or something they do n't pay much attention to it because you 're a girl and they do n't know you and I get that feeling anyway , I feel slightly like we c could actually get away with more . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , Charity , your whole problem is that you 're accustomed to people bowing down before you because you 're a doctor and they assume you walk with the gods . |
| 4 | In Maggie 's heart there had always been a prayer that they might be reconciled . |
| 5 | On some mornings the ducks on Three Island Pond would take off in great arcing flights against the sun , round and behind the Cages and out of sight , round again and behind the distant trees and then suddenly back again as if it had all been a mistake and they had never meant to fly off in the first place . |
| 6 | I put it to Andy that it must have been a blow when they split in 1988 , but he , ever the voice of reason , says , ‘ There was no point in trying to keep them together , it had gone as far as they wanted it to go and they wanted to do something different . |
| 7 | Place has been a wreck when they 've got it back . ’ |
| 8 | Coghill , who had been a friend since they read English together as undergraduates in 1923 , was now the English tutor at Exeter College . |
| 9 | When Gloria complained , there 'd been a tiff and they 'd had to leave . |
| 10 | Vera asks me : ‘ Why did you stay a Communist for so long , even after your friend was executed in 1950 ? '' ’ The friend in question had been a schoolmate and they had worked together in the resistance . |
| 11 | There had been a moon when they 'd first arrived , but the clouds had come while they were chopping wood , and the rain while they 'd cooked dinner on the two little primus stoves . |
| 12 | There has been a feeling that they would compromise with Chelsea to the extent of accepting half the £22.85 million valuation . |
| 13 | For a while there had been a feeling that they were asking the right questions and that at any moment the individual answers would shuffle themselves into a significant total . |
| 14 | But company executives accept that there must have been a leak as they put together a financing package to back their bid for Dixons . |
| 15 | It had been a puzzle that they could be knocked around in interaction with each other and yet emerge unscathed , the same as they had been at the beginning . |
| 16 | Flamboyant clothes are a mistake unless they are a genuine part of the interviewee 's personality . |
| 17 | Cable breaks are a nuisance because they almost always result in having to retrieve the glider from mid-field . |
| 18 | I know the rats are a worry because they are so dangerous and can contaminate food . |
| 19 | The racists are a problem because they are descended from the brown- and black-shirted enemies of earlier days . |
| 20 | For the cichlid community aquarium they are a boon as they will remove all and any debris in the water , have a large filtering area and therefore can hold much more waste than an internal filter . |
| 21 | They are a lottery but they probably waste less of your money than gambling on horses , and , as vices go , will not wreck your health as smoking or alcohol will . |
| 22 | A Customs and Excise spokesman said they can not tell if there has been an offence as they are not sure if an import licence was ever necessary . |
| 23 | It would have been an injustice if they had taken it away from me . ’ |
| 24 | It 's a pity in a way that we did n't have this discussion before , because I do think it 's important and I think parties these days , goodness knows what we 're matching is to , should be a bit and they want more , sort of less than putting in less fifty percent . |
| 25 | Under section 245A , where copies of the annual accounts have been sent out , laid , or delivered to the Registrar and it appears to the Secretary of State that there is or may be a question whether they comply with the Act he may give notice to the directors indicating the respects in which it appears to him that the question may arise and specifying a period of not less than one month for the directors to give him explanations or prepare revised accounts . |
| 26 | The celebrations that marked United 's third major Cup — four if you count the European Super Cup — in two calendar years could just be a rehearsal if they land the First Division title in the next three weeks . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , it 'll be a while before they — ‘ |
| 28 | It may be a while before they discover the paragraph and then the sentence . |
| 29 | Because er , inevitably man has got ta leave their home , even if they 've had a father erm who 's been a if they 've had no father at all , they 're gon na leave and they 're gon na face a world where they have to be a man and they 're gon na have to find their own male morals , and I think the , the responsibility , basically , has got ta come to men to change not for us to change them . |
| 30 | Students use Form M39 to indicate whether they wish to be awarded a BA or BSc should there be a choice because they are taking two neutral fields or a combination of arts and science fields . |