Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [be] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They may be mostly kids who still worry about spots — facial as well as first team — but they performed with commendable maturity , resolve and verve at White Hart Lane .
2 It seemed that all the intelligence had gone to Constance , leaving her brothers with only wariness and guile to see them through the vicissitudes of life , although , Scarlet had to admit , they could be surprisingly kind .
3 They need be only manilla , since they will rarely be taken out of your room .
4 Ian Clarke , a Bank of England executive , and his wife Jacqueline promptly turned back to Surrey so they would be nearer Heathrow and Gatwick airports — and better placed to take off for Australia .
5 Now they would be only threads in a tapestry of regrets .
6 It is uncommon for schools to use processes such as critical path analysis because they can be very time consuming unless used by experts , although simpler versions may be worth considering for example stocks and flows models .
7 They can be extremely irritant to the skin and have a very low degree of bio-degradability in purification plants .
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