Example sentences of "they [be] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some of them are 1,000 miles away in Florida and as far west as Wichita , Kansas . ’ |
| 2 | Among them are three paintings by Paul Klee : ‘ Full Moon ’ ( 1919 ) , ‘ Nocturnal Plants Growing ’ ( 1922 ) and ‘ Garden with Birds ’ ( 1929 ) ; two by Max Beckmann : ‘ Woman with a Mandolin ’ ( 1950 ) and ‘ Winter Landscape ’ ( 1934 ) ; Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 's ‘ Mardersteig Brothers ’ ( 1922 ) ; Emil Nolde 's ‘ Girls in their party dresses ’ ( 1918 ) ; Alexei von Jawlensky 's ‘ Mediterranean Coast ’ ( 1907 ) and Ludwig Meidner 's ‘ Suicide ’ ( 1912 ) . |
| 3 | cos some of them are three ply and I thought I 'm not gon na sit and knit three ply . |
| 4 | When they are eight weeks old , for example , mouse pups that have been conditioned using mild electric shocks to their feet readily learn to swim through a simple water maze . |
| 5 | ‘ We are always on the look-out for promising pups because every year up to a dozen of our most experienced dogs retire when they are eight years old , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 6 | WHETHER THEY ARE 8 weeks or 8 years old SCOTT-ADIE HAS A RANGE OF CLOTHING TO FIT YOUR SMALL PERSON AND YOUR BUDGET . |
| 7 | As an example of unreliable sensory feeling try closing your eyes and , using your senses and feelings only place your feet so that they are twelve inches apart , parallel with each other . |
| 8 | A recent survey of church youth groups shows that 1 in 4 have had sex by the time they are eighteen years old , 1 in 10 under the age of sixteen . |
| 9 | They are two strokes ahead of Spain 's Rivero and Miguel Jiminez , but Dunhill Cup finalists England and Scotland trail by nine shots . |
| 10 | However , from a computer resource management viewpoint they are two procedures and when both are invoked b ) must be queued behind a ) . |
| 11 | Erm they are two Americans who 've , who are involved with working in , in urban er aging and provision for aging , geriatricians . |
| 12 | They are two sides of the same coin , or , let us say , being as there are so many of us , the same side of two coins . |
| 13 | Indeed , they are two sides of the same coin : the inability of the Scots to articulate their feelings and politics , which is then manifest in blind hatred of opponents . |
| 14 | And we always let our prospective stallions have five mares when they are two years old so we can see what type of stock they throw . |
| 15 | By the time they are two years old they are sufficiently jungle-wise to live a completely independent life and find home ranges for themselves . |
| 16 | IT SEEMS like only yesterday that the pages of FlyPast were helping to launch the Friends of the Fighter Collection , but they are two years old this month . |
| 17 | So there undoubtedly a temptation to think , well let's not bother about that , let's pick them up when they are two years old and they 've survived this particularly hazardous first period . |
| 18 | You might say they are two levels of the same thing , like the high and low churches of Christianity . ’ |
| 19 | They are two points behind Portadown and would need to beat City of Derry by a landslide in their final match . |
| 20 | ‘ Although Lebanon and Syria are two countries they are one people of the nation … which was partitioned by colonialism . ’ |
| 21 | Since bats are considered by the Chinese to be symbols of good luck they are one creature that is likely to remain safe when the British hand over Hong Kong . |
| 22 | But the Cup finalists ' plight they are one point above a relegation spot means acting manager Malcolm Crosby is considering plunging Bracewell into his side 's battle against relegation . |
| 23 | However , Feargal Quinn makes a valid point when he argues that to talk about farm-based commodity production and the factory based processing to meet consumer demands as if they are one industry is a misleading simplification . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | SCIENTISTS believe they are one step nearer to discovering the cause of Cot Death Syndrome , which kills hundreds of babies every year . |
| 26 | But they are one example of white South Africa 's debt to Soweto . |
| 27 | They are one wheel lighter than two-wheeled carts , and more manoeuvrable since they are able to turn on the spot and negotiate narrow gaps on rocky ground . |
| 28 | ‘ They are one thing we all have , ’ she replied , opening her eyes . |
| 29 | IN THE two or three minutes before kick-off Graeme Souness will make his players believe they are 10 feet tall and can walk through fire . |
| 30 | The brochure stated clearly that while some children transferred back to mainstream schools , ‘ the majority remain until they are 16 years of age ’ . |