Example sentences of "they [vb base] be a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the Food Safety Act , they have an obligation to show everything they sell is a wholesome product on which the consumer can rely . |
| 2 | what they want is a regional dialect as well . |
| 3 | All over the world ordinary people are marching , demonstrating , making their voices heard , letting the people in power know that what they want is a peaceful world for themselves and their children . |
| 4 | Now that I 'm famous , whenever I speak to my family , all they want is a signed photo for Enid or Ethel or someone at the office . |
| 5 | With our long history , with our traditions , what they have decided they want is a constitutional monarchy . |
| 6 | What they want is a quick response facility to deal with emerging issues , and if the IASC is not prepared to do it , they will take it on themselves . |
| 7 | The group make use of Farnham 's musical facilities , including the Warehouse , which they say is a great place to rehearse in . |
| 8 | Fans of the great British sausage have formed an appreciation society to protect what they say is a healthy and nutritious food . |
| 9 | What they seek is a quiet , undisturbed family life . |
| 10 | Organiser John Morgans said it was the biggest and best ever and confirmed the festival will go ahead next year , though where is not certain as Darlington prepare to move from McMullen Road to start what they hope is a new era of success . |
| 11 | What they add is a new perspective , one that is broader , more experienced and , most important , one that extends further in time . |
| 12 | The beach where they lie is a crowded place . |
| 13 | A recent accident in Sweden when a runaway tram killed 11 people has heightened concern over safety but Manchester 's LRTs have five separate braking systems and the steepest gradient they face is a 1-in-20 up Balloon Street . |
| 14 | Faith is a drab and joyless affair to many Christians because what they presuppose is a sorry mixture of Christian and non-Christian ideas . |
| 15 | Naturally no professionals and professional bodies have full freedom to act in what they believe is a professional manner on all occasions . |
| 16 | This is proving not to be the case , as feelings run increasingly high over what is evolving into a conflict of classes — between pro-hunting locals and what they feel is a wealthy Parisian clique . |
| 17 | They can execrate someone whom they decide is a useless clown and they do this by making him a Lord , giving him the chairmanship of a quango and telling the chaps at the Athenaeum to hand him non-executive directorships in 15 companies and a merchant bank . |
| 18 | Liberal Democrat To keep up with the growth of the elderly population LibDems are hoping to increase health expenditure by two per cent compared to what they claim is a current increase of only half a per cent . |
| 19 | In a Commons motion they say they deeply regret the decision to shut the hospital which they argue is a direct result of Government reforms in the National Health Service . |
| 20 | In a Commons motion they say they deeply regret the decision to shut the hospital which they argue is a direct result of Government reforms in the National Health Service . |
| 21 | Some of the musicians are people with disabilities , others are not ; what they share is a collective outrage at the handicaps a lackadaisical world puts on disabled people through attitudes and actions . |
| 22 | Erm this time everyone 's at Wembley and you 're asking people , Right , if you draw this time we draw three big circles in the middle of Wembley , okay , and ask people to come and say which football team they think is a good one . |
| 23 | Do you know I was thinking this the other day , do you think , say there was some girl like , let's just take Flick no , somebody , who do , who do , who do the people think 's real , who do the blokes always , yeah Flick they think is a real frump do n't they ? |
| 24 | At a recent meeting of Somerset and South Avon NFU 's executive committee , members were concerned about what they think is a growing population of badgers . |
| 25 | The next song they play is a slow one — Silent Night . |
| 26 | The main vehicle for the information they publish is a bi-weekly bulletin , Haiti Info , which will initially be distributed in English and Spanish to some 500 organisations and media throughout the world . |
| 27 | He does n't now , whether they 've been a super star for a long time or if he 's never heard of them . |
| 28 | They 've been a great help , actually . |
| 29 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |
| 30 | The man they follow was a fine storyteller himself by all accounts — and there is no question they have some very good basic material . ’ |