Example sentences of "[verb] they be the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , of course , when a crime was reported they were the ones who had to notify the Parquet in the first place . |
| 2 | But just a mile across the city , their rivals say they 're the originals . |
| 3 | They have fiery red eyes and some say they are the Devil 's own pets , roaming the countryside with him each evening in search of the newly dead . |
| 4 | He says they are the fires of rascals roasting the King 's deer . ’ |
| 5 | He says they 're the items left over from a large number of burglaries . |
| 6 | It seemed they were the couple with everything . |
| 7 | Tory governments that have said they are the champions of the individual , but have eroded the rights of individual workers over the last fourteen years . |
| 8 | As can be seen they are the work of school librarians and teachers working in partnership . |
| 9 | Dyson assumed they were the company 's directors , bankers , and financial advisers ; they all had an air of unassuming integrity and human dignity which in Dyson 's experience was acquired only by daily contact with very large sums of other people 's money . |
| 10 | ‘ Look , Superintendent , I assumed they were the source of the information in the first place . ’ |
| 11 | FURIOUS Millwall claimed they were the victims of a controversial penalty decision yesterday . |
| 12 | Where there are dramatic differences of incidence for different groups , where the social pattern investigated is simplex ( for example , class difference only ) , and where the differences virtually always tend in the same direction , it is often unnecessary to test for significance , because the patterns revealed are so clear that no one could believe they are the results of pure chance . |
| 13 | Four middle-aged women got out of it , and she guessed they were the Women 's Institute members who had been checking the bush walk on behalf of the Institute . |
| 14 | Of course , ’ he smiled , ‘ you know they are the Sons of Dives ? |
| 15 | Cos I know they 're the things that seem |
| 16 | But can we altogether blame the children when from the moment they are born they are the focus of adoration ? |
| 17 | Generally speaking they are the ones who do not wear suits — or look rather uncomfortable when they do . |
| 18 | I just wonder what 's I last I heard they were the receiver was trying to pull it into the collapse but er |
| 19 | Said a pollster : ‘ Frenchmen still like to believe they 're the world 's greatest lovers . ’ |
| 20 | For as long as they continue they are the issue , rather than a grievance for which many people might instinctively have some sympathy . |
| 21 | After all , I feel they are the ones responsible for my misery not my boyfriend . |
| 22 | Nor should the other partner feel they are the object of the charity of some ‘ big benevolent bread winner ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ We feel they are the targets for extreme abuse . |
| 24 | Women themselves feel they are the group most at the mercy of current development strategies and are willing and keen to create their own people-centred , self-sufficient development schemes . |
| 25 | On odd nights that would worry me but in time I realised they were the kind of neighbours who never caused a disturbance . |
| 26 | But as former Darlington and Stockton Times typesetter Malcolm and housewife Judy walked into Sadberge Village Hall on Saturday night they realised they were the guests of honour at a surprise party . |
| 27 | I mean they 're the ones who are badgering me for , for qualifications , they 're badgering me for , I , I , I just told them straight that I will do it for them because I , I wo n't get paid for it |
| 28 | Er I mean they 're the kinds of things I 'm interested in knowing . |
| 29 | At least , Denise and Jean-Louis Lavergne claim they are the lovers in the world 's most romantic picture taken on a spring morning in 1950 . |
| 30 | Probably we felt they were the sort of client that we wanted or that there was already er a connection that we had er or there was a particular service that we thought we could offer and penetrate them in that way . |