Example sentences of "be [pers pn] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Well they have erm three bottles of lager on a Saturday night and they 're them big bottles like that , you know them plastic bottles ?
2 Why are you such cowards ?
3 Why are you such cowards ?
4 So he said , are you two friends ?
5 Are you two Brownies , then ? ’
6 The seventy nine of you who voted for banning hunting , a are you all townees , do you not understand th the fabric of er , of the country ?
7 Are you cold Dolores ?
8 I do n't know when this story star are you ready boys ?
9 Right , are you ready girls ?
10 She said where 's that fucking Tara she gone for a fucking blow again and they 're all laughing and she said what are you fucking bastards laughing at and there 's Tara there with tears down her face Tara tried to tell her she fell off the chair well that was it .
11 ‘ Say , Annie , are you both bi , or just Kelly . ’
12 Are we all slaves ?
13 Are we all drivers here ?
14 Are we true apostles in his grand design , as I hope we are ?
15 Given Berkeley 's immaterialism , however , the idea that things have real essences ( be they scholastic forms or corpuscular constitutions ) , which are the cause of their properties , simply has no place .
16 As a result of improved communications in every sense — be they electronic communications , our airports or any other form of communication — the regions of this country have never been closer to London than they are today .
17 Are they distinct forms of the verb or simply variants of a single verb form — the infinitive ?
18 Are they familiar ones ?
19 Locke was not much interested in their exact nature : are they mental states or modifications , like waves in the sea , or mental entities in their own right , like flotsam on it ?
20 Or are they mere voices of the bureaucracy ( which , in this third debate , is the ‘ system ’ ) ?
21 For instance , this whole issue of parenthood — whether it 's Dallas or Dynasty there 's the issue of who 's the real father , or children who are suddenly discovered , or sisters that were abandoned : are they real sisters ?
22 Labour has a list of priorities ; the pensioners , are they Labour priorities ?
23 " I mean are they mainstream novels and stories or thrillers or sci-fi or something like that ? "
24 Are they good jobs ?
25 So , basically , I want to know are they taken from erm a team which is already in the health service , or are they new posts funded , and funded by whom , bearing in mind the constant complaints we get from the health authority about lack of funds ?
26 Are they recent arrivals from Norway , or birds which have been around since the autumn migration ?
27 So which are they easy ones ?
28 Are they rational decision-makers of the kind proposed in microeconomics and Game Theory ?
29 Are they well-rounded individuals who can cope with the stresses and strains of public life , domestic pressures , and constant travelling ?
30 Are they all students or
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