Example sentences of "they [be] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He points out that even at Poole the two spits are not aligned with each other as one would expect had they been remnants of a former baymouth bar . |
| 2 | ‘ But they are cowards at heart and hang back until they are sure they are safe , even then leaving themselves a route for escape . |
| 3 | They are cases in which only one type of disposition is involved , but it is then misdescribed as the other . |
| 4 | They are cases in which a promise was made which was intended to create legal relations and which , to the knowledge of the person making the promise , was going to be acted on by the person to whom it was made , and which was in fact so acted on . |
| 5 | They are communities of interest , sharing opportunities and obligations . |
| 6 | They are communities in the sense that one has a sense of ‘ belonging ’ in them , and in the sense that Shetlanders belonging to each are said to be distinguishable by special characteristics in dialect or , less often ( and more humorously ) , by difference in mentality and general attitudes . |
| 7 | They are north of here , |
| 8 | Warnings of eco-wars and the flight of hundreds of millions of refugees can not be dismissed as fantasies : they are probabilities in situations which become more and more apparent as the century nears its end . |
| 9 | But most overseas buyers of the clothes are not sports fans — they are slaves to the fashion for Americana . |
| 10 | They are Rossifloor in Italy , Balsan in France and Cabrita in Belgium . |
| 11 | Executive Job Clubs have been set up , but for many they are havens of retreat where preconceptions can be themselves an obstacle to the need for change . |
| 12 | Thus Marco Polo confidently assures us that the Andaman Islands were inhabited by dog-headed cannibals , while the Amazon women , whom he reported as living on an island near Socotra , turn up again , in identical form , in Columbus ' report on his second voyage to the West Indies , only this time they are inhabitants of Martinique . |
| 13 | They are Board of Trade President Michael Heseltine , Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind , Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke and Foreign Office Minister Tristan Garel-Jones . |
| 14 | In Britain this is reinforced by such practices as attending a number of dinners a term in the Inns of Court while they are students for the Bar ; in both Britain and the United States there is the shared experience of dealing with problems from a legal perspective and extensive contact with other lawyers . |
| 15 | Many British readers will not feel such change directly if they are students from a more prosperous area ( as is likely since higher education places are filled largely from non-manual social groups ) . |
| 16 | Everybody wants to hear you because they are your friends , or because they are friends of the happy couple and want to hear what you have to say about them . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't know much about their private affairs , ’ said Melissa guardedly , ‘ except that they are friends of many years ’ standing and have shared a house since they both became widows some time ago . ’ |
| 18 | We ran out of water and some other friends ran out of water and we had to help each other and we were getting stuck in the sand and the heat was very high because it was in August and it was around noon time , so erm some people actually turned back erm they could n't continue , unfortunately ; they are friends of ours . |
| 19 | Beside me they look even slimmer , and I start thinking : maybe that 's the only reason they are friends with me ? |
| 20 | They are friends from the old days . ’ |
| 21 | Erm I would like to say a few words about the Fire and Rescue Service , er the Fire Cover Review Panel er which rests erm with couple of months before Christmas er it 's first meeting , received a report from the Chief Officer that in restructuring the Fire Service to get better use out of it to er spread the cuts could find savings of up to nine hundred thousand pounds in that process and they are friends in the Labour , Liberal Democrat groups have simply taken the good aspects of that the plus side of it and rejected the side what faces the side anyway . |
| 22 | Either those laws , from Martin 's Act of 1822 to modern legislation against gin-traps … recognize that animals can be wronged or else they are laws of manners , dealing with the vice or virtue of the state 's citizens . |
| 23 | In any case , virtually no heterosexual feminists have an analysis of heterosexism , which would enable them to deny they are lesbians without making it seem as if they are happy not to be . |
| 24 | Instead , attitudes are stances taken in matters of controversy : they are positions in arguments ( Billig , 1987a ; Billig , in press ) . |
| 25 | They are Calibans without the gift of language waiting with hands outstretched patiently , hopelessly , haplessly , for the boons of the new colonialism to drop into their laps , inshallah . |
| 26 | Italy has been blessed with more great cities than any other European country — they are home to some of the most famous landmarks of the continent , they are unique and they are truly special . |
| 27 | Particulars qua ontological existents are not in space and in time ; they are slices of physical space-time . |
| 28 | Whether they 're the citizens ' charter , whether they are response to people from the press or from the public or constantly ringing in to the switchboard , or whether it 's by all the other ways in which we disseminate information . |
| 29 | They are instances of a method called hill climbing , which will be explained shortly . |
| 30 | Perhaps they are pests to a lot of people , but we did n't see too many flies around our estate during the hot summer , so they had their uses . |