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 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Have they different appetites , different needs ? ’ |
| 12 | Are they different kinds ? |
| 13 | oh are they different oranges ? |
| 14 | How did they old ones survive then ? |
| 15 | And were they old arms or young arms ? |
| 16 | Or are they mere voices of the bureaucracy ( which , in this third debate , is the ‘ system ’ ) ? |
| 17 | So which are they easy ones ? |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | Are they distinct forms of the verb or simply variants of a single verb form — the infinitive ? |
| 20 | They electric windows ? |
| 21 | Are they conventional rules that we learn as we learn , say , table manners ? |
| 22 | ‘ Are they natural show-offs , or what ? ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Oh are n't they lucky gits . |
| 25 | There is a recognition in the notion of scale types that any effort to measure human attributes , be they psychological traits , attitudes or social properties , is unlikely to attain the standards of measurement typical of the natural sciences ; indeed , they are seldom used in their most developed form . |
| 26 | Are they little boys and girls ? |
| 27 | and they 'll get very worried , and it 's quite a difficult area because you have to be on the look out for something that 's not right , but you do n't want people to get er very worried because those feet are going to be very mobile and doing non walking thing until the child walks , they 're also very fat and podgy are n't they little babies ' feet ? |
| 28 | Are they good jobs ? |
| 29 | ‘ Were they good neighbours ? ’ |
| 30 | Are they well-rounded individuals who can cope with the stresses and strains of public life , domestic pressures , and constant travelling ? |