Example sentences of "they be [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other issue is that of the choice between saying that believing , expecting , hoping , and so on , are inner things ( mentalism ) and saying that they are outer things ( behaviourism ) . |
| 2 | Saying that they are outer things involves the denial of the autonomous status of self-testimony . |
| 3 | They turned out not to be elementary at all , they are complex things . |
| 4 | They are nice , they are good things to have |
| 5 | ‘ They are one thing we all have , ’ she replied , opening her eyes . |
| 6 | Scientists contend that the principles of natural law that govern our universe can not be turned aside , you can not ignore them , they are fixed , they are great things that , that you can not alter God can not do anything about them . |
| 7 | Plans evolved for new trains for the 1990s Channel Tunnel workings between British provincial centres and Paris , Brussels , and beyond being formed into eighteen coach trains with a power car at each end like an extended electric version of the InterCity 125 diesels , but with the capability to split into nine-coach trains push-pull style with a single power car , perhaps they are all things to all men . |
| 8 | Saying that they are inner things brings scepticism in its wake . |
| 9 | For them , however , the involuntariness , vivacity , and coherence of certain ideas is evidence that they are caused by real things ; for Berkeley it means they are real things . |
| 10 | Right , so they are these things known as data processing specification ? |
| 11 | They are interesting things to erect since one rushes round doing things to apparently little effect and then suddenly it 's all there . |
| 12 | There is no single way to measure creativity or industrial innovation ; they are complicated things . |
| 13 | Cos I mean , I mean I think that , that there is , there are two things , one is the excesses in terms of , of landlords being killed , and the other is , is the encroachment on middle peasants er er er they are different things . |
| 14 | They are beautiful things , guns . |
| 15 | They are active things which perceive , think , and will , and these properties can not be represented in a passive idea . |
| 16 | They 're all things that have been found in York . |
| 17 | You know they 're all things that you , they d expect you to know . |
| 18 | And the encouraging thing was that they 're all things that a few years ago in the Green Party sort things out they 're all there . |
| 19 | X-rays are n't something you can talk about , they 're visual things . |
| 20 | They 're awful things to paint are n't they ? |
| 21 | And th they 're marvellous things . |
| 22 | I mean they 're heavy things are n't they ? |
| 23 | When a man goes to work , he might be only making things , but at least they 're different things … |
| 24 | No he can be an American dream and he can also represent Russia because they 're different things that you 're talking about . |
| 25 | They 're smaller things , good . |
| 26 | Usually they 're silly things were you have n't quite clipped in correctly to the rope and suddenly , zap , you realise you 've missed death by only a hair 's breadth . |
| 27 | But they 're hopeful things will pick up : |
| 28 | Well I think it 's been awful interesting to see the pictures develop and like they 're so rough at first and they 're and more developed and they 're more things in them and the colours are getting more definite and everything . |
| 29 | They 're those things that uncurl , are n't they ? |
| 30 | They 're funny things : I 've heard of rabbits living almost on top of them and coming to no harm . |