Example sentences of "they be [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In actual fact your Pete and Margaret have moved more , in the twelve years that they were married , I know they 've been married longer now , but when , th they been married twelve years and they moved four times , |
| 2 | Tostada shells may be served with this soup ; they are flat fried tortilla pancakes which require heating in a moderate oven for a few minutes before serving . |
| 3 | They are factory-galvanised these days to prevent corrosion , and many are also available with factory-applied coloured finishes that need no decorating . |
| 4 | It is a most precocious breed , commonly calving at two years old or earlier , and many individuals seem to be predisposed to fostering alien calves so that they are good multiple sucklers if the milk is not too rich . |
| 5 | They are good educative examples of the search process , but it can be argued that they have little to do with practical intelligence . |
| 6 | Although these are n't as stylish as more expensive models they are good basic boots which will keep your feet comfortable and dry — without breaking the bank . |
| 7 | They are extinct colonial hemichordates , characterised by some of the most rapid rates of speciation and extinction known from the animal kingdom . |
| 8 | They are chronic weakening agents . |
| 9 | They are straightforward enough examples of scientific reform to convince many psychologists , and their scientificity also bestows some vicarious rigour on feminist uses of Gilligan 's work outside psychology . |
| 10 | In practice , however , failures are often forestalled by governments that fear systemic contagion from the collapse of credit institutions ; and the authorities only allow mergers between big firms where they are convinced that competition will not suffer . |
| 11 | Only the hope that their languages are being maintained sustains the minorities , because they are convinced that English , important though it is , can not and will not be the medium for the transmission of their dynamic culture and tradition . |
| 12 | They are convinced that religion must make sense to believer and unbeliever alike . |
| 13 | They are convinced anti-Diana stories are being deliberately leaked from within the Palace as part of an undercover slur campaign . |
| 14 | They are nice little letters , this one just as hard to understand |
| 15 | They are pleased that belief in God does not mean one has to believe that there is another ( evil ) god , but they do wonder whether on this view God is in control of the universe . |
| 16 | In this they are unlike medical researchers ; for example the Ethical Committee of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne monitors research with human subjects from a medical ethical perspective . |
| 17 | This does not mean that they are eminent all scholars ( a term reserved for a handful of rare spirits — like Albert Einstein , Bertrand Russell and others — who have shattered the frontiers of human knowledge , earning world-wide distinction by their intellectual endeavours ) . |
| 18 | Despite the mechanics ' worries motoring organisations say they are confident lead-free means trouble free . |
| 19 | They are tiny white worms about half an inch long which look like ‘ threads ’ of white cotton — hence the name — threadworms . |
| 20 | Among them are millions of our fellow Christians ; but whether they are Christian or Muslim or whatever , they are fellow human beings and made in the image and likeness of God — and we have a responsibility for them . |
| 21 | They are stupid that lot ! |
| 22 | They are ordinary normal persons , and as far as they were concerned their evidence is that essentially Mr. Winterbone was perfectly normal like them but suffering physically from pain from his shoulder . |
| 23 | They are essential atmospheric cladding which prevents the earth from becoming a frozen planet . |
| 24 | They are strange little creatures with a shell-like carapace and clinging feeler-like attachments . |
| 25 | SPIRITUAL — because they are not people ; they are real invisible beings , or spirits . |
| 26 | This point is exemplified with reference to tense and mood variation in Spanish si clauses ( see 50–52 above ) ; Lavandera points out that although the alternants may be defined as variants of an underlying variable in the sense that they are truth-conditional semantic equivalents , and pattern according to external social factors , they differ in modal meaning ( see Huddleston 1984 : 165 for a discussion of these semantic issues ) . |
| 27 | The levels are marked so that they are visible some feet away ; you do n't want undignified scrabbling around under a speaker 's feet . |
| 28 | They are capital intensive industries because they have a lot of money invested in machinery and equipment but relatively few workers . |
| 29 | Because they are vertical these looms allow the weaver easy access to every point across the width of the rug , and it is possible to produce much wider rugs . |
| 30 | They are pretty little cheekbones ! |