Example sentences of "they [be] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of these people have not been baptized yet , others have , and some of them are already Catholics who are seeking full union with the Church through the sacrament of Confirmation . |
| 2 | And the reason they are not up to the job is that those in charge of hiring them are mostly men . |
| 3 | ‘ Some of them are just minutes from the road . |
| 4 | Provided that the restrictions are all independent , none of them are just rearrangements or multiples of other restrictions , we proceed as before . |
| 5 | ‘ An ’ the bastard even went on to confirm that the bombs are set on time fuses , just sufficient to allow him an' his staff to escape , but not enough to allow them to be de-activated , or to evacuate the ordinary members from the building … an' most of them are just kids . ’ |
| 6 | I think a lot of them are just fads really . |
| 7 | Erm sometimes er I have n't mentioned much about the gender of the therapist but sometimes it can help a great deal if the therapist 's the same gender as the same person who 's undergoing therapy and it also helps if it 's er sometimes you ca n't very easily with some therapists , y'know it sometimes erm helps if it 's somebody you can trust and confide in and stuff like that and obviously , having met various psychiatrists and clinical psychologists , er quite a number of them are not people I 'd particularly like to talk about about being abused as a child . |
| 8 | They , the vast majority of them are not Shire Hall based er , administrative staff or what I think is generally er , the view , er , the general view of , of management and support . |
| 9 | The figure was mentioned to me by the manager of a gay bar who was justifying the role of the establishment , but added , ‘ some of them are not angels you know . |
| 10 | There are of course exceptions of those who are neither councillors nor magistrates er and are prepared to do these jobs , but there are n't very many in relation to er the numbers of people that would be required for this sort of task and there are many other activities for which there are required , like school governors who like helping on various health bodies and er they have n't got the time to do them all , and if they have , they probably are n't suitable , because I have to my Lords that a lord of people who volunteer for these sorts of tasks and I have experience of them are n't people that locally we would like to have sitting on these various bodies and we have to discourage them one way and another . |
| 11 | Do you want a fire retardant one or just in interestingly enough , the ones that have got price offers on them are n't fire retardant . |
| 12 | Some of them are also Companions of Honour , an order additional used as a way of rewarding prime ministers ' political friends , so ‘ that Norman Tebbitt and Lord Whitelaw , neither known as retiring aesthetes , rub shoulders with Anthony Powell , Lucien Freud and Dame Ninette de Valois . |
| 13 | Well they did a lot of them are actually country songs that were like Old Flames and and even the Black Sheep was was an American song which we you know and yes you know if you send them back to America , Old Flames for instance is often back on the American those that played on the Irish programme . |
| 14 | They 're both , they 're both , neither of them are actually warts , okay ? |
| 15 | Erm I suppose what we ought to focus on , is not so much the details of the ethnography so came up from the study , but erm but some of them are almost thieves |
| 16 | Temporary workers are also considerably younger than the generality of workers , largely because a high proportion of them are still teenagers . |
| 17 | Some of them are only fighting because they think they 've got nothing left to lose . ’ |
| 18 | Lewis 's eldils , for instance , are little more than the angels of Judaeo-Christian tradition ; but by confusing them linguistically with Tolkien 's eldalie ( in The Silmarillion ) , he implies that the elves of mat mythology are angelic , which they are not — they are simply elves . |
| 19 | They are the guiding fictions which we repeat to ourselves so often , and with such conviction , that we forget that they are simply themes in a script we have written , and act as if they were true . |
| 20 | These editorial policies are not the result of idiosyncratic requirements on the part of journal editors ; they are simply part of the disciplinary culture , which every aspiring academic has to pick up . |
| 21 | They are simply part of the Government 's plan to dilute the tribal population — to promote nationalism by standardizing the Bengali language , culture and the Muslim religion . |
| 22 | They are simply cases of men accumulating several women who themselves are in the same situation as monogamous wives . |
| 23 | Their quality seems to be exhausted by the ‘ conditions of their production ’ , which suggests they are simply impressions of heat , etc . |
| 24 | They are simply extensions of the previous examples which illustrate the handling of mixed data . |
| 25 | They are simply people who are lucky enough to have landed a free trip to a holiday destination , a trip paid for by an airline , a tour company , a hotel chain or any combination of the three . |
| 26 | To her , they are simply rooms , and her dead mother chose her name . |
| 27 | Nothing sinister is implied by the portrayal of weapons in advertisements , we are constantly told , they are simply props . |
| 28 | Since the left- and hence the right-hand sides of this equality are polynomials they are simply shorthand for ( 2 , -3 , 1 , 0 , … ) and ( 0,0 … ) respectively . |
| 29 | Though they are contemptuously referred to as ‘ page turners ’ , they are nevertheless texts and can engage the attention of those reading them , even developing patterns of thought which may affect the real world , as Disraeli 's novels did in the last century . |
| 30 | The High Court is also used for pursuing unpaid accounts provided they are over £600 . |