Example sentences of "they [adv] [be] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finns and Poles were the flavour of the month as I recall — they still are for that matter . |
| 2 | Before that time , knowledge and wisdom were passed on through the spoken word , as they still are in much of the world . |
| 3 | Early models of the cosmos were based on concentric spheres ( they still are in most minds ) . |
| 4 | The mechanism by which animals might integrate these various events , spread out as they usually are over several sessions of training , and by which the critical conditional probabilities might be computed , are not considered . |
| 5 | No I 'm sorry but they really were like that when I went to Kent . |