Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [adv] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , however , being unused to the sensations of the journey , they may well be car sick . |
| 2 | They may well be animals who bite the hand which feeds them ! ’ |
| 3 | And they have a far greater proportion of the Greater York area than we do , erm as I outlined we just have three relatively modest villages , erm our , we do have a concern erm , on this , in that we do n't ac , given there 's a a district and an area have not be identified , we do n't feel that there has been a comparative assessment of the two options , we do n't dispute that they may well be harm er from peripheral development around other distric , around settlements in other districts , we acknowledged other other District Council 's concerns , and indeed , these are arguments we have used ourselves on the scale of development in Hambledon , er but we do n't feel that there has been a properly balanced assessment of the two options . |
| 4 | However , logical equivalence between two sentences differing only in respect of lexical items occupying a particular syntactic position does not guarantee that the lexical items in question are cognitive synonyms — they may well be pseudo-synonyms . |
| 5 | They should also be jobs that young people might have experienced difficulty in gaining access to , without Compact . |
| 6 | They should still be disk . |
| 7 | They 'll soon be potato picking . |
| 8 | The they were scabs then and the scabs now , and they 'll always be scabs all their lives now . |
| 9 | No matter what they do they 'll always be scabs . |
| 10 | Otherwise , they might simply be part of the background . |
| 11 | ‘ They could also be drug-runners who do n't care for strangers . |
| 12 | She says even if they look angelic , they could still be thieves . |
| 13 | Oh no , I mean the these were clients and they could never be friends after doing that I 've come to the conclusion you can either keep your money or you can keep your friends , but you 're not going to do both . |
| 14 | Twenty million of them dispossessed , twenty million told they now lived in a foreign country and they could never be Germans again , for ever more . |
| 15 | Also , she wondered if the taxi firms kept any kind of record of their more regular late-night destinations ; if she had to rely on drivers ' memories then there would n't be much hope , since on the evidence of the previous night they 'd mostly be part-timers with a high turnover . |
| 16 | They 'd still be mates of course , for there was no side to Charlie Hatton . |
| 17 | It was well under a decade ; they 'd still be kids . |
| 18 | They 'd only be evidence of her crush on Harry , not of his presence at her death . ’ |
| 19 | She 'd have to show Martin that though they would always be friends , her first loyalty lay with her husband . |
| 20 | ‘ They would always be pick-ups . |
| 21 | They would never be friends , but by keeping a great distance , they might not become enemies . |
| 22 | They would never be Spandau Ballet . |
| 23 | They would indeed be things . |
| 24 | Now in Oxford erm we actually do n't have any land like that , and the problem was that , even if we had self-build houses on the land which is available at the moment , on which we want to build council houses but we have n't got the money to build council houses , if we were to allow self- build to go ahead on those sites because of the value of the land then the sorts of people who would actually be able to afford them would not be people on low incomes , or even sort of low to medium incomes , they would actually be people who were fairly well off and therefore not the people that we would want to be directing our resources at . |
| 25 | They would start construction at the rate of one a year from 1982 onwards , and they would ideally be PWRs . |
| 26 | They would certainly be persons aggrieved . |
| 27 | In contrast with the power of a company to purchase its own shares in accordance with that Part , the power to issue redeemable equity shares has been little used and when redeemable shares are to be found they will normally be preference shares . |
| 28 | But as in these organizations , they will primarily be opportunities for advancement within the specialty , and for limited advancement at that . |
| 29 | But they will also be rivals when former Blue Peter girl Caron , 29 , presents a game show on Radio 5 — at the same time as mum is on air on Radio 2 . |
| 30 | As for these men who came here which you called volunteers , they will neither be volunteers nor will they be tied to any colours or receive any pay . |