Example sentences of "they be almost the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are almost the only people about . |
| 2 | Just a T at the front they 're almost the same . |
| 3 | At first he did not identify Maud Bailey , and he himself was not in any way remarkable , so that they were almost the last pair at the wicket gate . |
| 4 | They were almost the last to leave ; as they were leaving they paused , of course , to say goodnight to Mother . |
| 5 | Craftsmanship in wood , leathern iron and silver was quite highly developed among the Yakuts in the seventeenth century , and they were almost the only north Siberian people to make pottery . |
| 6 | Under the surface draining or thorough water-draining of the land had to be undertaken on a more planned and workmanlike scale than had been done formerly ; for now the below-surface drains had to take off most of the water and conduct it to the ditches , and had not merely to assist the wasteful system of frequent water-furrows on the surface , as the old bush-drains had done when they were almost the sole method of under-draining . |
| 7 | Then she leant forward — they were almost the same height — and caressed his cheek with her lips . |
| 8 | I hardly ever see her now because she does n't go out and neither do I. But I used to see her when her husband was alive , indeed they were almost the only people I ever saw . |