Example sentences of "they [am/are] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the mere fact that they are appointed executor does not of itself increase the size of the bill . |
| 2 | Saying that they are outer things involves the denial of the autonomous status of self-testimony . |
| 3 | They are accessible women to aspire to in the Nineties . ’ |
| 4 | History has brought them together as a phenomenon without compare , and it is Pakistan 's good fortune that they are surviving fitness scares long enough to bring many honours to their country . |
| 5 | They are flat strips cut from young shoots of the bamboo plant and can be eaten straight from the tin or stir fried . |
| 6 | Technically , they are European institutions carrying on home-regulated investment business in the UK for the purposes of the Banking Co-ordination ( Second Council Directive ) Regulations 1992 ( the Banking Co-ordination Regulations ) . |
| 7 | On the one hand , they are experienced officers drawn from operational units with whom they keep in close touch ; and , on the other , they are advised by the Defence scientists and by the technologists in British industry . |
| 8 | For in that they are living in the modern world , and in so far ( one must say ) as they are good persons seeking to do what is right , conservatives must see much of the critique of past patriarchal relationships to be justified . |
| 9 | They are nice , they are good things to have |
| 10 | We get our horses from a dealer and if they are good horses to learn on we buy them if we can afford them . |
| 11 | They are generalist carnivores adapted for both the crushing and slicing of food . |
| 12 | The point , however , is not whether exploitation of women or men occurs in TNC factories , for they are capitalist institutions predicated on the exploitation of all the factors of production . |
| 13 | The answer is to elicit not intuitions OF meaning , but intuitions ABOUT meaning , which , although they are one step removed from the primary object of interest , can , if properly chosen , be clear and reliable . |
| 14 | But fortunately most people who are asked to help in surveys are prepared to accept that they are appropriate people to answer questions on the survey for which they are approached , and particularly where people feel that they are being asked to give ‘ expert ’ information this can be seen as rather a compliment : ‘ If you want to know about how a housewife organizes her day I can tell you everything you need to know . ’ |
| 15 | If they are right profits increase . |
| 16 | A spokesman for Midland said : ‘ They are technical rule breaches that happened three years ago . |
| 17 | What they all have in common is that they are all attempts to go beyond appearances . |
| 18 | They are fifty foot frames on four wheel bogies . |
| 19 | They are grazing carnivores using a rasp-like tongue to scrape off the flesh of the unfortunate prey . |
| 20 | Often they are multi-coloured stars stuck on a wall chart . |
| 21 | Saying that they are inner things brings scepticism in its wake . |
| 22 | Largely because of their native climate and sparse grazing , they are small animals standing perhaps 100–110cm at the withers on the islands and weighing 300–350kg , but in improved mainland environments they reach 116–122cm and can weigh 50 per cent more than the island cattle . |
| 23 | They are hot favourites to win the title for a fourth successive time , in fact no other association have had their name inscribed on this trophy . |
| 24 | 353 , 355 , Lord Mansfield explained that the true ground why no mandamus will lie to the Inns of Court is ‘ that they are voluntary societies submitting to government , and the ancient and usual way of redress is by appeal to the judges . ’ |
| 25 | They are partisan accounts furthering the cause of certain strands in the common tradition , by developing and producing new or newly recast arguments in their favour . |
| 26 | Ministers as a professional group tend to be averse to data-gathering because they are more people focused than organisation orientated . |
| 27 | Sexual maturity is not normally attained until they are three quarters grown . |
| 28 | A frequent complaint from companies using distributors is that , because they are independent businesses acting independently , they can decide the final selling price to the customer . |
| 29 | They are magnificent birds to watch in flight , soaring effortlessly on wings which can be over two metres from tip to tip . |
| 30 | Right , so they are these things known as data processing specification ? |