Example sentences of "[adv] they [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently they are the worst floods we have had in Suffolk since 1954 . |
| 2 | Mr. Graham : Perhaps they are the professional advisers who advised the Government to sell the royal ordnance factory in my constituency for a pittance to people who later recouped the price in one sale . |
| 3 | Perhaps they were the last days before the final eclipse . |
| 4 | So they 're the only ones you want to get rid of or are they the only ones you 've got ? |
| 5 | So they 're the first up with the Christmas tree decorations each year . |
| 6 | Together they were the necessary and sufficient conditions for the surge in bank loans to the developing countries in the 1970s , and together they provide much of the explanation for the reverse flow of funds , from South to North , that followed in the 1980s ( see figure 1.3 ) . |
| 7 | On the tides of Dublin or London they were hardly more than specks of froth but together they were the aristocratic Morans of Great Meadow , a completed world , Moran 's daughters . |
| 8 | That 's what we 're looking at , these I mean normally , normally they 're the same . |
| 9 | It was a hundred and fifty years ago that the French writer Alphonse Karr said : ‘ the more things change , the more they are the same . ’ |
| 10 | More probably they were the original inhabitants of the planet , and had evolved until they were superior to the interlopers . |
| 11 | Also they are the best band in the world . ’ |
| 12 | That was n't difficult , because he was sitting in the middle of the largest and noisiest group in the room — also they were the only ones speaking English . |
| 13 | cos really they 're the only f you know they 'll be going yeah that 's my mass line alright |
| 14 | Schemes such as the furniture stores would have operated at a much more modest level whereas now they are the main providers of this service in the city . |
| 15 | Now they 're the four things that you 'll find in your tray . |
| 16 | ‘ Now they 're the same . ’ |
| 17 | Now they 're the same size as that popular teenage magazine BIG ! ! |
| 18 | Always have been until now , but now they 're the same price everywhere . |
| 19 | Both groups need very special care — yet so often they are the forgotten people in our community . |
| 20 | Both groups need very special care — yet so often they are the forgotten people in our community . |
| 21 | People in these positions did not consciously seek to become part of an elite , rather they were the unwitting members of a structure of institutions — the military , the industrial and the political — which had coincidental needs . |
| 22 | there was this er butchers , and I went in there and I got some sausages , oh , er nobody said anything about these sausages I just thought well I 'd better take something back for Fred 's dinner so I went in and got these sausages , well they were the nicest sausages I 've ever tasted in my life |
| 23 | The primary sources for the religious orders were the lives and experience of their first and founding sisters , but equally they were the early sources of Christianity itself , namely the Gospels and the experience of those primitive Christian groups whose stories are depicted in the Acts of the Apostles . |
| 24 | ‘ Surely they are the ideal people ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Or maybe they 're the only sane ones . |
| 26 | Maybe H R T was helping what her symptoms would have been if she had n't taken them , maybe they were worse because she was , maybe they were the same in spite of it , but I du n no . |
| 27 | If sometimes they 're the wrong decisions … too bad . |
| 28 | It means , for instance , that you can not announce the whereabouts of major political figures in advance which makes your presentation via the media even more crucial : sometimes they are the only people you can take into a particular venue . |
| 29 | The powers of the interim receiver may be restricted by the court but , if they are not , then they are the same powers as the official receiver would have as receiver and manager ( in the period between the making of a bankruptcy order and the appointment of a trustee ) ( s 286(3) ) . |
| 30 | And then they were raked into Well we just er If they were dry they were raked into big swathes , to be near where you could build the tramp coles But if they were n't you would put them into little coles and the and then they were the little coles was put up t t together to make a bigger one . |