Example sentences of "they [am/are] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Add red lentils and cook for a further 10 minutes until they are tender but still retain their shape . |
| 2 | But in the Guardian 's case they are fortunate to have such high reserves . ’ |
| 3 | When this happens , sometimes it is because they are fortunate enough to have similar interests and standards of behaviour , plus warm , easy-going personalities , with a good tolerance of other people 's ways and opinions . |
| 4 | If they are fortunate enough to become involved in an initiative which supports their progress into employment , this can lead them into another level of experience . |
| 5 | First the drummers come on — I may say that no women are allowed to take part in this ritual and the ladies here will perhaps agree with me that they are fortunate in that omission . |
| 6 | They are fortunate that , for the most part , the increasing personal contact at work , the continuing isolation of farm workers from other occupational groups and the increasing proportion of workers living in tied housing out on the farms are providing opportunities for this identification to be retained , should farmers choose to cultivate it . |
| 7 | People recovering from addictive disease are not special and different from other people ( although they are fortunate in having a positive programme by which to live ) but they are now able to take their place alongside others . |
| 8 | If they are fortunate to have enough money , where are they to find out that that helpline exists and obtain the numbers ? |
| 9 | Teachers will understand and support the way in which management decisions are made if they are fortunate enough to receive any management training and any assistance in their professional development , especially if it is linked with their working experience ( DES 1990a:9 ) : Training opportunities increase in value to the degree that they are planned to integrate with and enhance the experience of management in school . |
| 10 | Now for some of our members choice is is not something that they are fortunate enough to have because they are very needy and they do not have perhaps all the education that some of the tory party perhaps have , that they have been less fortunate in many , many ways . |
| 11 | any other financial arrangements contained in the agreement shall not thereby be rendered void or unenforceable and shall , unless they are void or unenforceable for any other reason ( and subject to sections 35 and 36 , below ) be binding on the parties to the agreement . |
| 12 | They are deeply-felt songs of pioneering days ; for instance : |
| 13 | Organisations are complex social systems , but must be seen in the context of their technology — ie. they are socio-technical systems . |
| 14 | She argues that one 's feelings are a source of knowledge as well as being a result of understanding , and that for both social and biological reasons they are gender-related . |
| 15 | They are distinct from the cell 's main store of DNA , the bacterial chromosome , yet still multiply during cell growth . |
| 16 | While victim studies and self-report studies overlap to some extent and are sometimes used in conjunction , they are distinct approaches which need to be defined separately . |
| 17 | It is true that human beings share some things in common with other species , such as sexual reproduction , but they are distinct in some major ways , above all in their capacity for symbolic communication , as distinct from a sign system of communication used by some other species . |
| 18 | In this recording the orchestra is in the foreground most of the time ; and during this time we often hear the singers as though looking at them on stage through inverter opera glasses , where they are distinct but tiny . |
| 19 | In the ommatidia they occur as proteinaceous granules in the pigment cells surrounding the crystalline cone and retinulae ; they are distinct from and sometimes masked by the ommochrome pigments that may also be present . |
| 20 | ( 1.4 ) They are distinct , however , from causal generalizations , which will be of some importance in what follows . |
| 21 | They are distinct , but they overlap in certain respects , albeit in areas that do not challenge their basic theoretical viewpoints . |
| 22 | Yet they are distinct from general art history and criticism in their conscious introduction , if in varying ways , of active social concepts as necessary elements of description and analysis . |
| 23 | The complexity of the problems encountered in a particular task , project or strategy is a function of the variables involved — their number , their clarity or ambiguity , the rate at which they change , and , overall the extent to which they are distinct or tangled . |
| 24 | Geordies and tykes have never got on particularly well — they are always friendly to one another , but they are distinct groups . |
| 25 | They are distinct from the longer stories not only in terms of content , but in graphology also : most are italicised , which separates them visually from the other material . |
| 26 | ‘ They are big , they are still , they are noble ’ he said . |
| 27 | Tell your children why they are necessary and explain how the dose is carefully worked out . |
| 28 | Similarly , the punctuation of changes of state , such as window frames , doorways , bearings and edging strips are as expressive in painting and music as they are necessary in architecture and mechanics . |
| 29 | All the houses in the neighbourhood have these alarms , and Vic admits that they are necessary , with burglaries increasing in frequency and boldness all the time , but the system they inherited from the previous owners of the house , with its magnetic contacts , infra-red scanners , pressure pads and panic buttons , is in his opinion over-elaborate . |
| 30 | ‘ When they are necessary I try to arrange that they cause as little disturbance as possible . ’ |