Example sentences of "be [pron] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | But young people now realise that certain buildings , for instance , are theirs and they do n't want them ruined . |
| 2 | I 'm all alone , 'cos I think everyone 's alone , like , 'cos they 're themselves and they 're different from everyone else . |
| 3 | How confident are you that they are correct ? |
| 4 | And they are something that they could probably do something about . |
| 5 | People like Niall , like Michael Morrissey , who do know what it is like to be poor and shat on , the bottom of the whole U.K. heap , they know I 'm nothing when they set eyes on me . |
| 6 | They want us to be ourselves and they themselves and to meet as friends … only after some quiet times with a dolphin do we enjoy letting it be in charge of the encounter , and see what it may decide to do next with us . ' |
| 7 | The new arrivals are steered into jobs , usually pretty menial , and told , under threat , to start repaying the huge debt that they contracted under the misapprehension that instant wealth would be theirs once they arrived . |
| 8 | Happiness can only be theirs if they honour that gift . |
| 9 | The responsibility will now be theirs and they 'd better get on with it and better show things that they 've been arguing and get along . |
| 10 | You 're trying to be everything and they 're pushing it away cos it 's not what they really want and they , I mean , all , all you can get from him is how marvellous , you 're right , how marvellous his brothers are and yet , what I 've heard of the brothers they 're not |
| 11 | they desperately want a child between them and to them a child that is born by the mother but is from a different origin than than the partner is is the next best thing an , and most of the couples , and we do n't advise them that this should all be kept secret , we leave that decision to be something that they will erm , come to later on when the child is older , and many of these couples will decide that this child will be brought as their own biological child , and I do n't really see that as being any different than many relationships where children are conceived out of wedlock , or out , with the relationship and people make a a a decision to keep this erm to themselves . |
| 12 | There had been no ceremony about any of it , for ceremony of any kind seemed to be something that they did not embrace . |
| 13 | it must be something that they 've had er they |
| 14 | Privately Captain Simcox hoped the IRA would be a match for the Tans — well , perhaps that was expecting too much — but it would be something if they could put some manners on them and give them a bloody nose now and again . |
| 15 | Oh I think it 'd be nice to have a video , because like , when Rebecca gets older erm cos I personally , my own feelings are that we might get Charles as King , but after Charles there wo n't be anything cos they 'll do away with them . |
| 16 | So in earnest are they that they do n't even recognise that being in earnest is the act . |
| 17 | Where were you when they put a man on the moon ? ’ |
| 18 | The British government er not only went along with this agreement at the time of the Edinburgh summit , they positively endorsed this arrangement er as being something that they er strongly supported and urged upon other member states in the European community er and that I think is a relevant matter with respect er Mr Deputy Speaker , I I appreciate that er there are other issues relating to these er er constituencies that are of greater concern perhaps to er honourable and right honourable members but this question of who actually is to pay for any new building in the European parliament is something that I believe the government can not avoid . |
| 19 | How old were they when they did run away ? |
| 20 | For one thing , the criticism could easily rebound on the people who run these places , when in most cases they know how bad things are themselves but they ca n't do much about it . |
| 21 | What you 've described must be something that erm that that families of people who are suffering from eating disorders must feel very much , that there 's nothing that they can do to , to help . |
| 22 | Perhaps some hon. Members will be quite content to say to their constituents that they understand their problems and sympathise , but that there is nothing that they can do about them as the matter is out of their hands . |
| 23 | and Jehovah proceeded to go down to see what they see , to see the city and they tell that the sons of man have gods , after that Jehovah said look there are one people and there is one language for the north and this is they start to do , why now there is nothing that they may have in mind to do that will be unobtainable for them , come now let us go down and their confuse their language , he 'd be speaking to angels now would n't he |
| 24 | God says it is theirs whether they want it or not . |
| 25 | The decision finally is theirs and they take full responsibility for that decision , and may erm in exceptional circumstances not follow the advice of their Clerk . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's you or them . |
| 27 | Furthermore , the resolution of both of these issues would require the court to evaluate the merits of alternative business policies which as we will see below , is something that they are most reluctant to do . |
| 28 | Logically , people live in a particular type of house because it is one that they can afford to purchase or rent and to maintain , so there is a rough and ready relationship between the value of their home and their income . |
| 29 | That 's one that they seem to ignore er , rather systematically . |
| 30 | When this happens the rest of the school , who along the way have trained with the successful runner , may have beaten him on occasion , have been course markers , marshals , timekeepers , supporters and team-mates , really feel that sport is n't just another soap opera glimpsed on television or paraded through the back pages of the newspapers — it 's something that they are actively experiencing at first hand for themselves . |