Example sentences of "they [be] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no details on the vouchers as to how much they are worth just a note saying that vouchers must be redeemed before 12 on the matchday . |
| 2 | As the two components have a common motion through space they seem to be physically associated , but they are at least a light-year apart , and possibly much more . |
| 3 | They are at once a replication of and a threat to the unitary governing structures of the society in which he lives . |
| 4 | ‘ She takes her golf very seriously ; she told me her clubs are a matched set and I imagine they 're worth quite a lot of money . |
| 5 | None the less they were at once a part and a symptom of a great expansion of European wealth . |
| 6 | Fearful anticipation had proved somewhat worse than the event , and most Viennese were coming round to the opinion that , whatever the failings of Napoleon 's men , they were at least an improvement upon the Hapsburgs ' Russian allies , whom everyone loathed . |