Example sentences of "they [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were they complete idiots ? |
| 2 | " I mean are they mainstream novels and stories or thrillers or sci-fi or something like that ? " |
| 3 | Nor were they suffering faces . |
| 4 | Labour has a list of priorities ; the pensioners , are they Labour priorities ? |
| 5 | They bloody speakers all over the place . |
| 6 | ‘ Ray and Diana were n't revolutionaries , nor were they political dissidents . |
| 7 | They write E A R at the end do n't they some words . |
| 8 | The question that 's behind that , however , of course , is what is the language itself , what are the words ; are they English words , or are they some other kind of words ? |
| 9 | They do not represent a complete list of the ‘ traditions ’ in English curricula nor are they timeless entities ; they simply represent three clear constellations of curriculum styles which recur in the history of the school subjects under study . |
| 10 | As a result of improved communications in every sense — be they electronic communications , our airports or any other form of communication — the regions of this country have never been closer to London than they are today . |
| 11 | What motivated them , whom did they represent , were they altruistic democrats or ambitious élitists ? for Soviet historians the revolutionaries of Alexander 's reign were the authentic , if Utopian , spokesmen of the peasantry , and their Bolshevik heirs became effectively fused with the proletariat . |
| 12 | Have they different appetites , different needs ? ’ |
| 13 | Are they different kinds ? |
| 14 | oh are they different oranges ? |
| 15 | How did they old ones survive then ? |
| 16 | And were they old arms or young arms ? |
| 17 | Or are they mere voices of the bureaucracy ( which , in this third debate , is the ‘ system ’ ) ? |
| 18 | So which are they easy ones ? |
| 19 | For this purpose they second members of their departments to the project manager . |
| 20 | For instance , this whole issue of parenthood — whether it 's Dallas or Dynasty there 's the issue of who 's the real father , or children who are suddenly discovered , or sisters that were abandoned : are they real sisters ? |
| 21 | Are they distinct forms of the verb or simply variants of a single verb form — the infinitive ? |
| 22 | They three boys — and Sara — was all brought up at Trebyan and they was all at the village school . |
| 23 | They electric windows ? |
| 24 | Are they conventional rules that we learn as we learn , say , table manners ? |
| 25 | ‘ Are they natural show-offs , or what ? ’ |
| 26 | The advantages of Bt toxins are obvious : not only are they natural proteins that readily degrade in the environment , but they are highly specific for crop-destroying caterpillars ( Lepidoptera ) , flies ( Diptera ) , or beetles and weevils ( Coleoptera ) ; they do not harm vertebrates . |
| 27 | Oh are n't they lucky gits . |
| 28 | He goes on to say of course federal laws were not being obeyed in the confederacy because they 'd rejected the entire panoply of federal laws and Lincoln goes on to point out must they these laws and the confederacy be allowed to state the question more directly , are all the laws but one to go unexecuted and the government itself to go to pieces less that one be violated . |
| 29 | Are these for tomorrow , Keith , are they these strips already done ? |
| 30 | So many of them from Uni they these children in America and erm |