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

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1 ‘ All of them are groups who work together on specific tasks under a single section head or foreman .
2 Do you think some of them are ones which genuinely religious people would not adopt ?
3 For a start , right , erm all her clothes then right and I mean loads of them are ones they 're really horrible like but she just hangs them here , I thought well you ca n't wear them , you know , all horrible , you do n't wear them fold them , put them away
4 Most of them are rubbish I should think .
5 Sandwiched between them are Gloucester who lost their 100 per cent record at Saracens , the London club holding them to a 12–12 draw .
6 well I mean you 're right in a way Bob those people who seem to get on within a company some of them are people who seem to be able to say the right words at the right time do n't they ?
7 That surviving half-page on Alexandria with its three classes of people is memorable : the Egyptians , " an acute and civilized race " ; the mercenaries , " a numerous , rough and uncultivated set " ; and the Alexandrians themselves , " a people not genuinely civilized … but still superior to the mercenaries for though they are mongrels they came from a Greek stock and have not forgotten Greek customs " ( 34.14 ) .
8 They are processes which , once started , end up producing a particular outcome at a later point in time .
9 Because they are mouthbrooders it does not matter if a male holds only a small or temporary territory , as the eggs are safe in the female 's mouth .
10 But Stainforth understands mountains as well , and while they also have their own structure , they are changelings which we can not take for granted .
11 And they are gulls they are invisible they are human
12 His past is made up very largely of futures — plans , expectations , anxieties , fantasies , dreams and visions — but they are futures which are closed : every forward thought is stalked by death .
13 But in his analyses of kinship relations or of cooking , for example , Lévi-Strauss 's approach is based entirely on the assumption that they are systems which are structured like a language ; that is to say , that their individual elements have meaning only in so far as they are part of an overall system .
14 That they are solicitors who would have handled the situation differently from er the defendants .
15 They are actions which appear irrelevant to the circumstances , and are generally performed at times of motivational conflict .
16 It is early days yet to see how the ideas of Total Quality Management will affect the way in which schools operate but I have no doubt they are concepts which are of great usefulness to education .
17 In other words , they are abuses which are very common , and can be generally reduced by better health understanding .
18 To take examples from either side of the Atlantic , both Tom Peters ( 1988 ) and Charles Handy ( 1989 ) are beginning to suggest very different approaches to management , and interestingly they are approaches which reflect far more accurately the needs for collegiate management in schools .
19 They are forces which are spreading wealth faster than at any time in human history and in one 's political approach I think you either are an enthusiast anxious to embrace the forces that are at work or you are a sceptic , perhaps inclined to resist them , hoping that you can frustrate them .
20 In general terms the narrow range of investments are fairly , very safe and secure investments , but they are ones which are less likely to secure higher returns but of course also , less likely to secure risks of low returns .
21 Those coke ones are yours now , they 're not , they are ones we do n't do without .
22 ‘ Easily the most promising , ’ judged Pacey , in 1961 ; and George Woodcock added that Leonard was one ‘ who could write lines which are no longer good imitation Yeats ; they are lines which only Yeats could have imitated . ’
23 And while it 's very reassuring that schools have n't changed too much — I do n't think we want everything to change overnight — I think you could say that schools are open to the same criticism as of British industry at the moment , that they are institutions which perhaps are changing too slowly for the demands of the modern world .
24 They are writers who have parted company , but who are in some ways at one .
25 On the one hand , if they are mothers they are more likely to delay seeking help from their GP for fear that their children will be taken into care .
26 If they are members they would find it difficult to refute charges of a breach of the Code of Conduct .
27 That is , he maintains that while they are soldiers it is their duty to fight , but should they choose the way of non-violence then it would be their duty to refuse to fight .
28 They are commodities whose exchange can be analysed like that of any other .
29 And she said erm where they have their big discos in the universities er you know , about two thousand five hundred of them come round of course they 've got fire alarm systems there , then she said you get the underground so called Mafia , whatever you like to call them she said , they are chaps she said in their thirties , and forties , arrive in shiny big white and red Porsches this that and the other and deliberately , cos they 're club owners
30 They are phrases which indicate a topic of interest ( i.e. your focus ) and at the same time point towards a particular kind of discussion ( i.e. your mode of argument ) .
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