Example sentences of "they be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | They are processes which , once started , end up producing a particular outcome at a later point in time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But Stainforth understands mountains as well , and while they also have their own structure , they are changelings which we can not take for granted . |
| 5 | And they are gulls they are invisible they are human |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | That they are solicitors who would have handled the situation differently from er the defendants . |
| 9 | They are actions which appear irrelevant to the circumstances , and are generally performed at times of motivational conflict . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In other words , they are abuses which are very common , and can be generally reduced by better health understanding . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Those coke ones are yours now , they 're not , they are ones we do n't do without . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They are writers who have parted company , but who are in some ways at one . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If they are members they would find it difficult to refute charges of a breach of the Code of Conduct . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They are commodities whose exchange can be analysed like that of any other . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | Freud came to see , later , that human beings are not predisposed to admit that they are organisms which die and are destructive any more than they had been prepared to admit that young children , under five years of age , were sexual . |
| 26 | Possibly they are birds which have failed to breed successfully and have assembled here to moult . |
| 27 | If they are voluminous , they are not notes — if they are notes they are not voluminous . |
| 28 | They 've got several in erm I suppose they are sport they are sport shoes covers running . |
| 29 | Well if I know who they are and I do n't know where they come from I 'll just put who they are day I were talking to them and dash it . |
| 30 | They are women who have learnt to defend themselves , who are directly affected by central and local government policies , price speculation and the economic situation of the country . |