Example sentences of "[be] they the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are they the hired entertainers , Mummy ? ’ a North Oxford brat inquired in piercing tones . |
| 2 | These are not new issues ; nor are they the only important issues for users . |
| 3 | So they 're the only ones you want to get rid of or are they the only ones you 've got ? |
| 4 | And are they the right conditions ? |
| 5 | But are they the right questions ? |
| 6 | Are they the right size ? |
| 7 | Are they the right size then love ? |
| 8 | But are they the Labour Party 's ? |
| 9 | But are they the inevitable companions of hierarchy , or perhaps a product of the misuse of hierarchy that would disappear if hierarchy were properly understood and structured ? |
| 10 | Were they the only agent or were there other agents ? |
| 11 | Were they the only people that used to use it like that ? |
| 12 | Elections were not the only occasions when those below the level of the elite could give voice to their political inclinations , nor were they the only points of contact between the world " out-of-doors " and that of Westminster . |
| 13 | The moral discourses of purity feminism were neither a reactionary barrier to feminist progress nor were they the simple expression of militant feminist consciousness . |
| 14 | Now what were they the other week from |
| 15 | Crudely put , authority and leadership began to move from traditional leaders , be they the old pro Jordanian élite or the post-1976 pro-PLO mayors ( most of whom had been eliminated by the authorities ) , into new but less visible hands . |