Example sentences of "they [be] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These editorial policies are not the result of idiosyncratic requirements on the part of journal editors ; they are simply part of the disciplinary culture , which every aspiring academic has to pick up . |
| 2 | They are simply part of the Government 's plan to dilute the tribal population — to promote nationalism by standardizing the Bengali language , culture and the Muslim religion . |
| 3 | Since the left- and hence the right-hand sides of this equality are polynomials they are simply shorthand for ( 2 , -3 , 1 , 0 , … ) and ( 0,0 … ) respectively . |
| 4 | All examples show similar characteristics ; they are generally stone vaulted — an unusual feature in so early a period and rare in southern Europe — the majority have cupolas supported on squinches and/or intersecting barrel vaults ; the stonework is solid but crude ; ornament generally includes interlacing in bands of carving on stone borders and the patterns are made up from circles , diamonds or zig-zags — the interlacing is like a prototype of the later Romanesque basket work patterns . |
| 5 | The scaup in flight is almost identical but although scaups are common enough around the coast they are exclusively winter visitors and not often seen on inland waters . |
| 6 | They are just service outlets providing anything from hire cars to hair dressing , hamburgers to hotels . |
| 7 | So this was a new strange quantum number , and I think really what happened as new quantum numbers became necessary to describe the new types of particles , people just began to think of more sort of strange names like charm and beauty and erm things like this , but they have no real connection with what we normally understand by charm and beauty , they are just quantum numbers . |
| 8 | They are scarcely adult , some men : they wish women to understand them , and to that end they tell them all their secrets ; and then , when they are properly understood , they hate their women for understanding them . |
| 9 | They are normally working days . |
| 10 | They are normally impact systems , ie a wire is fired at a ribbon in order to leave an inked dot on the page , but thermal and electro-erosion systems are also used . |
| 11 | In most cases they are partly class parties and partly status parties , but sometimes they are neither ’ . |
| 12 | Such remarks are irrefutable ; but , quite deliberately , they are also propaganda . |
| 13 | They are also part of certain styles of Indian dance where gestures are explicit in conveying the beauty of the world , of women and of - love . |
| 14 | Parliamentary Labour Party — are not only the largest national group in European Parliament ; they are also part of the largest political group , the Socialist Group , within the European Parliament . |
| 15 | They are also idea for rooms with sloping ceilings , where a normal wardrobe will project some way into the room , leaving a gap behind it . |
| 16 | They are also pressure impregnated with wood preservative to give rich colour and guaranteed life of 15 years without rotting . |
| 17 | DEC and Microsoft said that they expect NT-on-Alpha , which they are jointly engineering , to be a high-volume , multi-sourced platform for users , software developers , systems designers and chip manufacturers — exactly the same thing ACE was supposed to be . |
| 18 | It is as if not too many new churches are wanted because they are rather unanglican . |
| 19 | They are largely monotone engravings but around the beginning of the 19th century a series of itinerant Irish artists recorded the Gorge in all its glory and colour . |
| 20 | But although they are largely self sufficient , needless to say livelihoods in these sort of conditions and communities are on a knife edge . |
| 21 | In George Square the original buildings dating from 1776 still stand on the west side , but elsewhere they are largely modem . |
| 22 | But Mr. Holman is right to point out that they are strictly obiter and were in neither case supported by any corresponding observation on behalf of the other members of the court . |
| 23 | Though they are neither statist nor paternalist , the authors see a larger role for democratic central and local government in the reduction of urban poverty . |
| 24 | They claim they are neither punk nor heavy metal , but can change tack from rock n' roll to thrash at the drop of a hat . |
| 25 | If she dies or leaves , they are instantly ware of it , and soon develop eggs and start constructing cells ready for the new queen . |
| 26 | In other words , we need to recognize that many apparently independent units of production are , without being legally owned subsidiaries , so dominated through subcontracting and purchasing arrangements , that they are effectively part of a single unit of capitalist production . |
| 27 | They are mainly grammar schools ; there are separate Protestant and Roman Catholic schools . |
| 28 | Although the two main architects of the group , brothers Maurice and Charles , are still very much in charge at the top , they are essentially ad men and not financial experts . |
| 29 | They are essentially government jobs . |
| 30 | Although there is an intention to use these parts in the business they are essentially part of the operating cycle of the business and should be treated as current assets . |