Example sentences of "[conj] they [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Where they are all students , they will be exempt and no payment will have to be made . |
2 | Bobs : Taken from the Amiga , where they are Blitter Objects . |
3 | The change , which affects sellers and buyers where they are both VAT registered or are liable to be registered as a result of a transaction and the buyer is making the purchase in connection with his or her business , was made in an effort to combat the growing number of serious VAT frauds involving smuggled gold . |
4 | Soon Diana and Mary would leave Moor House to return to the wealthy families in the south , where they were both governesses , and St John would go back to the vicar 's house in Morton , with Hannah , his housekeeper . |
5 | Beginning their new season in the third division of the Paisley & District League , the Stoddard Carpets football team are fighting to get back into the second division where they were last year . |
6 | Erm because in fact quite funny seeing they 're all being er to laugh erm see what servants in . |
7 | Either Gibson know something we do n't , or they 're one fret short of an octave … |
8 | Torturers were either trained policemen or soldiers , or they were special commando units , or they were trained in USA or Panama , or they simply carried on the tradition of civilian torture . |
9 | Although they are good birds for many beginners , they cost about £700 , which makes them too expensive for all but the most dedicated . |
10 | The answer is to elicit not intuitions OF meaning , but intuitions ABOUT meaning , which , although they are one step removed from the primary object of interest , can , if properly chosen , be clear and reliable . |
11 | Although they are rarer fossils , some of them are of such interest that they are worth mentioning here . |
12 | According to the dictionary the name bonsai is Japanese , although they are relative newcomers to the art . |
13 | Although they were both Mississippi bluesmen , with John Lee you 'd never know when he was gon na change chords ! |
14 | Although they were public servants answerable to the Home Secretary , the Prison Commissioners had a separate existence going back to the reforms of the late Nineteenth Century . |
15 | But a report from the London Society of Chartered Accountants says that firms among the 250 quizzed are even less optimistic than they were four months ago about the general business outlook . |
16 | Do you think things are better now than they were five years ago when you started your help line ? |
17 | This is not the picture of starvelings about to arise from their slumbers , but neither is it a picture of men and women ‘ better , immensely better , than they were fifty years ago ’ , still less of a class that ‘ had almost all the material benefit of the last fifty years ’ ( Giffen ) as self-satisfied and ignorant liberal economists maintained . |
18 | Some of the clothes , I mean , are definitely cheaper than they were fifteen years ago so I |
19 | The present slump has also hit manufacturing hard , though companies are undoubtedly more efficient and better able to cope than they were 10 years ago . |
20 | Football can be a cruel game and the undeniable , unpalatable truth is that Robson 's key players are not getting any better than they were two years ago ( with the arguable exception of Shilton ) , and certainly no younger . |
21 | Since no mines , oil wells nor factories have invested in significant modernisation few are making appreciably more convertible currency than they were two years ago . |
22 | ‘ They are ten times easier to deal with today than they were six months ago , ’ said Mr Murray . |
23 | The people in the street outside may tell the market researchers that they are more confident than they were six months ago , but that does not take them into the shop , put their money over the counter or pay the staff wages of the retailer . |
24 | One of our more perceptive archaeological historians , Malcolm Todd , could write in 1981 in his survey of Roman Britain 55 BC — AD 400 : ‘ Archaeologists are now much more confident of their ability to demonstrate urban occupation until well into the fifth century in many of the cities and towns of Britain than they were twenty years ago ’ , but hastily adds ‘ though this confidence is not shared by all historians of the period . ’ |
25 | The birthrates of Liverpool , with its big Catholic tradition , are much closer to those of the South East than they were twenty years ago . |
26 | Although some of our rivers are cleaner now than they were 30 years ago , there is still room for considerable improvement . |
27 | Research studies in the US and the UK have found that young people are drinking no more than they were 20 years ago and that the vast majority drink sensibly . |
28 | In fact , teenagers in the UK are less likely to become pregnant and less likely to become mothers than they were 15 years ago and far less likely to do so than teenagers in the United States . |
29 | Job vacancies are still 10,000 lower than they were this time last year . |
30 | An analysis of high-altitude lakes in New Hampshire in the 1980s revealed that 110 out of 214 were more transparent than they were 30–40 years ago . |