Example sentences of "they be [noun] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they are characters they can not move or fight on their own , because they are part of their Mob . |
| 2 | For individuals , they are decisions about their personal life-style . |
| 3 | The Government fail to appreciate — although they are prisoners of their own rhetoric and ideology — several important points which others readily grasp and would clearly like to do something about . |
| 4 | That 's doubtless because originators Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick are writing about themselves and their friends : like Michael Steadman , who is at the centre of this universe , they are Jews in their mid-thirties married to non-Jews and with young children . |
| 5 | They are classics of their time , as relevant today as ever they were to people climbing at that grade , with every move a gem where it counts . |
| 6 | She was to refer to them wryly as her ‘ yearly knitting ’ , but they are classics of their kind , deftly constructed with strong characterization and a meticulous prose style . |
| 7 | They are children in their love of pictures and music . |
| 8 | And they while they reckon condoms , by far the most popular form of contraception for teenagers , are sensible they are victims of their own self-consciousness because they are too afraid to buy them . |
| 9 | Pupils and teachers at Cheney say they 're victims of their own rigourous adherence to guidelines for working out the figures . |
| 10 | No there 's they were , they were called but they were agents for their own ships . |
| 11 | They were slaves of their own chemistry , following a blind biological urge . |
| 12 | ‘ When I first saw them I thought they were costermongers with their black and white trousers . |
| 13 | And for the second week running , the encouraging thing about this game , was that Town still managed to win , even though they were way below their best and that 's the hallmark of a successful side . |
| 14 | In doing so they were part of their time . |
| 15 | One famous example of this was when he asked students to pretend that they were boarders in their own homes , and to behave accordingly . |
| 16 | At this point , inevitably , they were dissidents from their class , and in one sense rebels against it , but in a specializing way , in that they found in the arts of painting and poetry an alternative to the dominant social and cultural order . |
| 17 | Until 1958 , females , even though they were peeresses in their own right , were not admitted . |
| 18 | He only realised they were vibrancers by their costume , for their postures were lax and their hair , unlike the tidy short haircuts of Por Tanssie students , very long . |
| 19 | All the girls I used were n't bimbo model types — they were people in their own right . |