Example sentences of "they be the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All around the oval churchyard can be found the sunken tracks that were once the village streets and paths and raised above them are the grassy mounds that cover the foundations of houses and cottages long since gone . |
| 2 | The most powerful ‘ lessons in wizardry ’ are those taken for the learning of shamanic powers , and in the Piaroa theory of knowledge , men who do undergo them are the best hunters in Piaroaland , even if they rarely hunt ( Overing 1988 ) . |
| 3 | Gone too from both of them are the dark circles under the eyes , the complexions grey with tiredness and lined with worry . |
| 4 | Tristan has two near neighbours , both uninhabited , Nightingale and Inaccessible , and a third a couple of hundred kilometres further south , Gough Island ; all of them are the battered remains of extinct volcanoes . |
| 5 | All that 's left for them are the smallest triumphs , revenges or consolations — together with a fascination for the England of 15 or 20 years ago . |
| 6 | Below them are the four archdeacons ( Wiltshire , Sarum , Dorset and Sherborne ) who , Bishop John says , are ‘ key people in the modern church ’ . |
| 7 | The Kuwaiti population is about one point seven million erm about six to seven hundred thousand of them are the Kuwaiti nationals . |
| 8 | Suspensions and the risk of them are the common denominators of today 's European proceedings . |
| 9 | Not all of them are the high mileage though are they ? |
| 10 | ( The scheme applies equally to women if they are the absent parent but the vast majority of absent parents are in fact men . ) |
| 11 | I commend them , and the area over which they preside , to adventurers and explorers of all ages , and especially to sufferers from urban depression for which they are the perfect tonic . |
| 12 | Fast as the wind and loyal unto death , they are the perfect mount for Elf nobility . |
| 13 | Thus we see in sociology two strikingly different analyses of crimes of violence against women : one in which they are the infrequent consequence of a few mentally deranged men ( which is supported by the low incidence of such crimes in the criminal statistics ) ; and one in which they are an institutionalized set of practices which are part of an overarching system of gender inequality ( in which the low number of convictions for such crimes is merely evidence of the state 's collusion ) . |
| 14 | They are the external effect of the internal fight to get well , recover and heal . |
| 15 | Myths form a large part of poetry or music for they are the ancient background of man 's thoughts which the materialist world has spurned , but which a few poets and mystics have jealously guarded and preserved . |
| 16 | Dressed casually in button-down-collared shirt , faded denims and suede cowboy boots , she sat behind the mixing console of one of PWL 's studios and said : ‘ My parents are fantastic , they are the stabilising influence in my life . |
| 17 | They are the final arbiters , as to where the motions passed at the Apex Conference are acceptable under the advisory element of the rule , my branch are only too aware of this . |
| 18 | The report of the ( then ) Social Science Research Council 's exploratory Panel on Addiction in 1982 argued that addiction problems are not trivial , that they are the legitimate concern of the social sciences and that a multi-disciplinary approach may reasonably be expected to produce insights , information and analyses which will enable addiction problems to be dealt with more effectively . |
| 19 | They are the ultimate jugglers , but they have to manage without the help of disposable nappies , supermarkets and freezers . |
| 20 | Neil Tennant may wonder how they can expect to be taken seriously but , to millions of record buyers the world over , they are the ultimate realisation of the rock dream ; tribal passion , myth , commitment and the belief that guitars really can bring down governments . |
| 21 | In the latter , they are the political-economic structures within . |
| 22 | They are the great Temptation in themselves , for they present a Messiah whose credentials are established by miracle . |
| 23 | They are the four soldiers of the Ulster Defence Regiment who were convicted of the murder of a Catholic man in Armagh in 1983 . |
| 24 | ‘ There 's no doubting they are the best pair in the world , ’ he added . |
| 25 | It is argued that the law results in employers unwillingly or unwittingly engaging or promoting minorities , regardless of their abilities or qualifications , and whether or not they are the best person for the job . |
| 26 | These double-polished thin sections ( DPTs ) can only be satisfactorily produced by machine ; they are the best sections for research work and critical petrographic studies . |
| 27 | ‘ Ipswich and Leicester lead the promotion race but this does not necessarily mean they are the best teams . |
| 28 | It 's because they are the best memories of my life . |
| 29 | At any rate , they are the best marks that were to appear on his performance schedule over the next four years , when his average ran at 56.4 per cent . |
| 30 | Also they are the best band in the world . ’ |