Example sentences of "they [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And if Graham Taylor sticks with the Wright-Shearer partnership , England wo n't go far wrong in their World Cup qualifying group because both of them are international class .
2 Many of them are powerful gringo media barons .
3 In the terms discussed in Chapter 2 during our reinterpretation of the Chicago School , these groups convert certain districts in what for them are front regions .
4 Some of them are absolute rubbish some of them are very very very good .
5 Too many of them are visual firework displays without an emotional centre , or a coherent narrative structure .
6 Many of them are part-time workers and many have had their already small number of hours reduced further .
7 Fruits and vegetables , even in their raw , unprocessed state , differ so much that you certainly ca n't say that all of them are useful sources of fibre .
8 Most of them are petty tradesmen .
9 internal business shuttles but a lot of them are long haul passengers who could n't get a direct flight to their nearest regional airport and with the nineteen ninety three directive liberalising the E C erm or European Union Airways , more and more passengers from the North and the Midlands are going to take a shuttle to Europe not to Heathrow , they are going to fly from Ringway or East Middlesbrough t to Europe and catch a long haul from Charles De Gaulle or Frankfurt and indeed Amsterdam which you probably know is now advertising itself as Britain 's third airport .
10 But some of them are bad-tempered ratbags who should be locked away in a cellar with a lot of other feminists .
11 Thirty words in addition are phonic alternatives : most of them are reasonable attempts :
12 These particles , this particular matter is generally given the sort of generic term seston some of those particles are mineral particles some of them are colloidal aggregates as the iron tends , iron , iron , ions tend to come together to form colloids in solution and some of them are particles of biological origin .
13 Some of them are potent ganglion blocking agents and were introduced into clinical medicine , but they had grave disadvantages .
14 Both of them are rotten drivers and I 'd had enough painful experiences for one day .
15 Most of them are poor people who give their services to their neighbours and communities for little or no charge .
16 Among them are outstanding objects from the Olmec , Aztec and Maya civilisations including a turquoise Aztec mosaic mask in the form of two intertwined rattlesnakes , painted codices from pre-Hispanic times , among them the Codex Zouche , stone architectural fragments from Mayan sites and jades from the Olmec period .
17 The changes taking place are manifested in diverse forms , and have very different starting points , but underlying them are similar sets of questions and pressures .
18 They form an incomparably useful line on which to trace the gradual mastery of natural forms , and a few of them are great works of sculpture .
19 Some are caverns , but most of them are tiny pores — such as the spaces between grains of sand in a sandstone , or networks of equally fine cracks .
20 Remember , many of them are married men with families and jobs .
21 That , I mean , the , the appointments what Jane and Linda do make me , I 'll be honest , they 're quality appointments , not all of them but I would sixty , seventy percent of them are good quality appointments .
22 Although I believe they are improved as a class , many of them are rough diamonds ; at times they are light-fingered , they are not invariably sober , their education leaves much to be desired and it is impossible to allow them the run of the works after closing hours .
23 Most of them have never been involved in politics before , though all of them are Labour voters .
24 Among them are Spanish actress Angela Molina and directors Almodóvar and Geraldo Rivera .
25 And erm a lot of them are retired business men , or , or people still , people in business who give their time freely to it .
26 ‘ They have never been in that position before some of them are classic cases of Thatcher 's children .
27 There is also the option of using wild flowers , although that is only feasible if you live in or near the country , and you must be very careful about which flowers you pick — some of them are protected species .
28 ‘ Most of them are bloody wars .
29 of them are such dickheads
30 Among them are such features as the screes of the Lake District , which may be fossil forms due to frost shattering in the closing phases of the Pleistocene ; dry valleys in Chalk areas , which have been discussed in Chapter 7 ; some of the gravel river terraces , which , although composed of coarse gravel , have gradients less than those of present rivers , which appear to be capable of transporting no material coarser than sand and mud .
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