Example sentences of "they be [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | of them are such dickheads |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Other than their having the same employer , what does it mean to say that they are each members of the same community ? |
| 4 | Miller pointed out that ‘ Oranges , jesmines , capers , olives and pomegranites … are annually brought from Italy and , if skilfully managed , very few of them miscarry , notwithstanding they are many times three or four months out of the ground . ’ |
| 5 | Reports of sea serpents say they look like smooth snakes , but they are many times larger than the biggest snakes on earth : the longest seem to be about 200 metres . |
| 6 | They are many thanks , thank you . |
| 7 | But until we understand how and why they are such reasons and how they differ from ordinary reasons we will not begin to understand the nature of authority . |
| 8 | Every few years the gap is filled with a useful directory , but handy as they are such titles rarely survive for more than three editions : witness the demise of the Antique Collectors ' Club 's sadly missed Guide to Specialist Nurseries . |
| 9 | This is n't meant to be a test , a mental MOT for your man , but they are all topics you can talk about , which will help you get to know each other better . |
| 10 | Many graduates seem unaware of Convocation , yet they are all members of it . |
| 11 | The College has about 400 students , all of whom are full-time ; like those in the nearby Welsh Agricultural College and Aberystwyth College of Further Education , and indeed the University College , they are all members of the Aberystwyth Guild of Students . |
| 12 | They are all members of the ninety six club . |
| 13 | They are all achievers in their own right and the Profitboss knows it and appreciates it . |
| 14 | And remember , they are all products of Pakistan 's domestic cricket competitions , which are competed for by the commercial organisations and regional teams which have always been condemned by Imran — who for the last decade had not played domestic cricket in Pakistan . |
| 15 | Barth introduces seven correspondents , or rather reintroduces them since they are all figures from his earlier works , and Barth himself is projected into the fiction as an updated form of ‘ Mr. B. ’ , Pamela 's seducer in Richardson 's novel . |
| 16 | They are all filter-feeders , drawing water in through one opening , passing it through a bag with slits in its wall , and then discharging it back into the sea through the other tube . |
| 17 | seems to be producing more than just cereals and soups at the moment … the baby business is booming and so far they are all boys . |
| 18 | ‘ And they are all about the same age and they are all boys who have never been in trouble with the police , but the people who taught them and their family were not exactly surprised at what happened . ’ |
| 19 | Determination , success and profit are all inter-related , they are all attitudes of one mind . |
| 20 | Plans evolved for new trains for the 1990s Channel Tunnel workings between British provincial centres and Paris , Brussels , and beyond being formed into eighteen coach trains with a power car at each end like an extended electric version of the InterCity 125 diesels , but with the capability to split into nine-coach trains push-pull style with a single power car , perhaps they are all things to all men . |
| 21 | ‘ But they are all cousins of Duke William as well . |
| 22 | These libraries … they are all instruments with which a war is carried on . |
| 23 | Where they are all students , they will be exempt and no payment will have to be made . |
| 24 | It may be that , in a very loose , family resemblance sense , they are all institutions of the same general kind . |
| 25 | And they are all widows now . |
| 26 | They are all product-believers . |
| 27 | They are all murderers . |
| 28 | I gather them all , unapologetically , into the same disreputable fold because they are all substances we use to change the way we feel . |
| 29 | Here 's a clue : they are all countries which have Brownies and Guides . |
| 30 | But this implies that if we regressed C t on the three variables and entered separately , rather than as a sum as in equation ( 3.18 ) , we should observe that the coefficients estimated on these three variables are approximately all the same , as they are all estimates of α t , provided that we have specified the model correctly . |