Example sentences of "they [adv] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This dual usage makes them seem to fill the limbo-land that lies between rhythm and lead approaches , and therefore an ability to play them fluently is a more-or-less essential guitar skill . |
| 2 | My original idea of telling them together was a bad one . |
| 3 | And by her expression the wound he was dealing the pair of them now was a mortal one . |
| 4 | They always were a mad lot , she told herself ; and what was she to say to Mr Paul ? |
| 5 | Barbara Rich , who looked after Prince Charles 's hunters , said of the saboteurs : ‘ They really are a dirty and smelly bunch . |
| 6 | They really are a special breed . |
| 7 | Talk was intense among the youngsters , and the young actors and actresses roaming Sunset Strip were no different to the youth of America , if not the world , in that they too were a disoriented bunch in search of idols ; Clift , Brando and Dean were providing them with a whole new repertoire of sayings , postures , stances and gestures . |
| 8 | They certainly were a rough lot . |
| 9 | Algorithms detect most high risk patients , both young and old , and risk factor stratification shows that in about a third of them there is a likely or predominant initiating mechanism that is amenable to specific treatment — for example , paroxysmal atrial fibrillation with amiodarone ; an accessory pathway with ablation ; a gradient with β blockers , calcium antagonists , or myectomy ; conduction disease with a pacemaker ; refractory sustained ventricular arrhythmias with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator ; and relative ischaemia in the presence of normal coronary vessels with nitrates and calcium antagonists . |
| 10 | For them there is a needless , lifelong fear of encountering a strange cat , a fear that sometimes ends with them refusing to go out of doors at all . |
| 11 | Two large leather-covered armchairs were placed near a cast-iron stove , and between them there was a low table with a chessboard , the pieces set up ready for play . |
| 12 | Between the two of them there was a fundamental issue at stake . |