Example sentences of "they [be] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are simply the total number of biomorphs in the space . |
| 2 | To regard motives themselves as good or bad is idle ; they are simply the raw material of human psychology with which the legislator or social engineer must deal . |
| 3 | But they are n't the they are n't the Californian ones where they 're sort of big , fat and juicy |
| 4 | That makes the rare ones more difficult to find , but they are n't the main thing anyway . |
| 5 | They are normally the senior employees and therefore the high earners of the business and it is important for the purchaser to assess the cost at an early stage . |
| 6 | He agrees that if public services expand then something in the industrial sector must decrease — profits or investment — but ‘ it does not follow that the former is the cause of the latter ’ ; rather they are both the joint results of the non-competitiveness of British goods in the international market . |
| 7 | The significance of the allusion to Freud in this famous passage is to suggest that to conceive of the economic as operating in isolation is as illusory as to imagine that the ego can operate without the unconscious : they are both the reciprocal products of the other . |
| 8 | They are also the only ones to be successful in recent years in winning seats in England . |
| 9 | This confirms that although the junctions a subject recalls are the ones at which they reported subjective risk , they are also the busy ones and the ones the subject regards as likely to be the most dangerous in other conditions ; this means that actual feelings of risk may not be solely responsible for the effect . |
| 10 | They are also the continuing decline of parliamentary politics and political control increasingly orchestrated by a small clique within the Cabinet . |
| 11 | They are also the very elements which have often been cruelly denied to Latin America 's millions of indigenous communities during the past five centuries . |
| 12 | They are also the very wishes which in total welfare states lead to what we may justly term the externalization of paranoia : for in these totalitarian societies the delusions of the paranoiac become actual , tangible realities . |
| 13 | There 's an ecological number sung in typically spacey fashion ‘ The world 's spinning round , like a looney balloon ’ ; there 's an anti-Thatcher song summarising the Prime Minister 's lack of sensitivity in the one charge that she does n't like rock n roll ; and , proving that they are probably the only pop band ready for the single European market , there is an EC tribute : ‘ Down All The Days ( to 1992 ) ’ . |
| 14 | Clearly , despite their terribly twee name , pudding-bowl haircuts and crap clothes , they are not the washed-up jangle group their detractors would have you believe . |
| 15 | But , unlike Britain , France and the United States , they are not the traditional homes of liberal thought . |
| 16 | These do not have the sophisticated pan-and-tilt heads of the full tripod , so they are not the complete answer . |
| 17 | They are not the rich bachelors or the yuppies that the Labour party fears ; two thirds of single people entitled to discounts will be over 60 , single pensioners , widows and widowers , and many more are single parents . |
| 18 | They are not the perfect team . |
| 19 | They are not the perfect team . |
| 20 | They are not the perfect team . |
| 21 | Economic factors may be fundamental to rural out-migration but they are not the sole explanations . |
| 22 | Moreover , unless the United Kingdom is taken to be consciously disregarding the very international obligations on the basis of which it claims that the requirements at issue are compatible with Community law , the fact that those requirements are applicable only to fishing vessels tends to show that , in the United Kingdom 's eyes also , they are not the sole requirements suitable for ensuring the existence of a ‘ genuine link ’ as required by international law . |
| 23 | They are not the monolithic structures which they are often presented as being . |
| 24 | No , they are not the real world champions ( a ridiculous claim in the first place ) . |
| 25 | The Romans may be the chief enemies in the books , but they are not the only ones who would like to suppress Asterix . |
| 26 | It can help older people realize that they are not the only ones with problems , a belief which the isolated and depressive nature of personal circumstances can sometimes encourage . |
| 27 | While arguments about equity are important in overthrowing the Thatcher tax regime , they are not the only ones . |
| 28 | Economic and social position , of course , can be important bases of political power , yet they are not the only ones . |
| 29 | These are perhaps the most important distinctions in the use of deictic terms , but they are not the only ones . |
| 30 | He added : ‘ Our members find that they are not the only ones out there with Parkinson 's Disease and they are eager to find out more about the condition and ways that they can be helped . ’ |