Example sentences of "they be [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 None of this is a matter of syntax ; the intensional relations and the syntactic constructions which realize them are just the ones we have discussed in previous chapters .
2 The largest of them are also the country 's teaching hospitals , affiliated to the faculties of medicine in the universities .
3 While the functions of the primary and secondary markets differ it is no accident that the financial institutions participating in them are often the same , because an efficient secondary market , in which existing securities can be bought or sold easily , contributes in several important ways to the strength of the primary market .
4 In another sense most of them are quite the opposite , namely rejections of modern modes of political organisation , both national and supranational .
5 Now many people seem to think that technology means machines and equipment , but machines and equipment and the software that run them are only the products of technology .
6 However , recently a spokesman for a well-known oil company claimed that they were really the Davids in this country and that the boot WAS on the other foot' Doubtless , central and local government would also claim that they are simply the servants of the public and not their masters .
7 Noting the claim of central and local government that they are simply the servants of the public and not its masters , the discussion paper for this seminar raises the question of whose values inform policy decisions which affect local communities .
8 To regard motives themselves as good or bad is idle ; they are simply the raw material of human psychology with which the legislator or social engineer must deal .
9 Well they are simply the most direct spontaneous images drawn from his personal drama , which had little to do with the war .
10 They are simply the total number of biomorphs in the space .
11 They are simply the best in the business , ’ admitted Ipswich veteran John Warke but until Campbell 's treble blast yesterday , Arsenal manager George Graham was worried that Wright was getting all the best lines .
12 In both cases , units are shown as ‘ dotted line ’ boxes indicating that very little expenditure is actually paid for by the units , even though , of course , they are where the bulk of resources are deployed .
13 Indexed files take a little longer to access than random files and it is necessary to have a separate index file , but they are generally the best space/speed compromise for files holding a large amount of data .
14 What is even worse , however , is that as the two fonts may have been prepared from different masters there could be subtle variations between them — even though they are notionally the same typeface .
15 That makes the rare ones more difficult to find , but they are n't the main thing anyway .
16 They are n't the ones I would have chosen .
17 They are n't the same .
18 Chris believes in teaching children about snakes , showing them that they are n't the horrible slimy things they 're sometimes portrayed as .
19 But they are n't the they are n't the Californian ones where they 're sort of big , fat and juicy
20 But they are n't the they are n't the Californian ones where they 're sort of big , fat and juicy
21 To anyone who has been driving on the planet earth within the last 75 years , they are just the same .
22 They are just the means by which one refers to clusters .
23 They are just the tools , ’ said Hargazy contemptuously .
24 They are numerically the largest group of people at risk , they present the most complex problems and their needs have the most impact on families and communities .
25 They are normally the senior employees and therefore the high earners of the business and it is important for the purchaser to assess the cost at an early stage .
26 Although a small number of inter-denominational schools have been built in the UK , they are normally the result of neighbouring schools coming together from weakness and threat of closure .
27 They are both the product of good intentions : old-Etonian William Waldegrave has promised to speak up for the ‘ little guy ’ .
28 Mykines has some similarities to Foula in Shetland : they are both the farthest westerly island of the group , largely cliff-bound and lacking a good , all-weather landing-place .
29 The significance of the allusion to Freud in this famous passage is to suggest that to conceive of the economic as operating in isolation is as illusory as to imagine that the ego can operate without the unconscious : they are both the reciprocal products of the other .
30 He agrees that if public services expand then something in the industrial sector must decrease — profits or investment — but ‘ it does not follow that the former is the cause of the latter ’ ; rather they are both the joint results of the non-competitiveness of British goods in the international market .
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