Example sentences of "they be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All around the oval churchyard can be found the sunken tracks that were once the village streets and paths and raised above them are the grassy mounds that cover the foundations of houses and cottages long since gone . |
| 2 | Necessarily some favourites have been left out of the selection and among them are the two larger than life , cast stone sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck — the ‘ Kneeling woman ’ of 1911 and the ‘ Standing youth ’ of 1913 ( two of the museum 's earliest acquisitions , by the way ) — which have always within living memory afforded a moment of tenuous serenity in the same room with Kokoschka 's simmering double portrait of the Tietzes and Max Beckmann 's horrific ‘ Departure ’ . |
| 3 | The most powerful ‘ lessons in wizardry ’ are those taken for the learning of shamanic powers , and in the Piaroa theory of knowledge , men who do undergo them are the best hunters in Piaroaland , even if they rarely hunt ( Overing 1988 ) . |
| 4 | Gone too from both of them are the dark circles under the eyes , the complexions grey with tiredness and lined with worry . |
| 5 | Tristan has two near neighbours , both uninhabited , Nightingale and Inaccessible , and a third a couple of hundred kilometres further south , Gough Island ; all of them are the battered remains of extinct volcanoes . |
| 6 | All that 's left for them are the smallest triumphs , revenges or consolations — together with a fascination for the England of 15 or 20 years ago . |
| 7 | At any instant , three of them are the current required settings of the three motors ; three are the previous required settings , a third of a second earlier ; three are the required settings a third of a second before then ; and so on . |
| 8 | Between them are the tall , narrow , round-headed windows . |
| 9 | Among them are the four remaining pictures shown by Betty Parsons , whose checklist notes seventeen works , the complete set of five White Paintings conceived in 1951 and recreated , under Rauschenberg 's instructions , by Brice Marden in 1968 , twelve Black Paintings , three gold leaf paintings , fifteen collages created in Rome and North Africa in the last months of 1952 , and thirteen box sculptures incorporating stones , thorns , an insect and other material . |
| 10 | Below them are the four archdeacons ( Wiltshire , Sarum , Dorset and Sherborne ) who , Bishop John says , are ‘ key people in the modern church ’ . |
| 11 | The Kuwaiti population is about one point seven million erm about six to seven hundred thousand of them are the Kuwaiti nationals . |
| 12 | Suspensions and the risk of them are the common denominators of today 's European proceedings . |
| 13 | Not all of them are the high mileage though are they ? |
| 14 | Whatever your Dreams , the steps towards achieving them are the same . |
| 15 | Musicians and artists to them are the same as tramps and winos , whereas , in a place like Germany , musicians are respected for their occupation . ’ |
| 16 | The variation in name appears to be the major difference between the two types of minor authorities : the functions allocated to them are the same . |
| 17 | Amongst them are the last great wild gardens of the earth still harbouring uncatalogued varieties of creatures and man . |
| 18 | ( The scheme applies equally to women if they are the absent parent but the vast majority of absent parents are in fact men . ) |
| 19 | I commend them , and the area over which they preside , to adventurers and explorers of all ages , and especially to sufferers from urban depression for which they are the perfect tonic . |
| 20 | Fast as the wind and loyal unto death , they are the perfect mount for Elf nobility . |
| 21 | Thus we see in sociology two strikingly different analyses of crimes of violence against women : one in which they are the infrequent consequence of a few mentally deranged men ( which is supported by the low incidence of such crimes in the criminal statistics ) ; and one in which they are an institutionalized set of practices which are part of an overarching system of gender inequality ( in which the low number of convictions for such crimes is merely evidence of the state 's collusion ) . |
| 22 | They are the external effect of the internal fight to get well , recover and heal . |
| 23 | Myths form a large part of poetry or music for they are the ancient background of man 's thoughts which the materialist world has spurned , but which a few poets and mystics have jealously guarded and preserved . |
| 24 | Dressed casually in button-down-collared shirt , faded denims and suede cowboy boots , she sat behind the mixing console of one of PWL 's studios and said : ‘ My parents are fantastic , they are the stabilising influence in my life . |
| 25 | They are the final active phase in the lives of many intermediate mass stars : the core has by then contracted to a neutron star and in the same process the outer layers of the star have rebounded as a supernova explosion . |
| 26 | They are the final arbiters , as to where the motions passed at the Apex Conference are acceptable under the advisory element of the rule , my branch are only too aware of this . |
| 27 | The report of the ( then ) Social Science Research Council 's exploratory Panel on Addiction in 1982 argued that addiction problems are not trivial , that they are the legitimate concern of the social sciences and that a multi-disciplinary approach may reasonably be expected to produce insights , information and analyses which will enable addiction problems to be dealt with more effectively . |
| 28 | They are the ultimate in ‘ selfish genes ’ . |
| 29 | Neil Tennant may wonder how they can expect to be taken seriously but , to millions of record buyers the world over , they are the ultimate realisation of the rock dream ; tribal passion , myth , commitment and the belief that guitars really can bring down governments . |
| 30 | They are the ultimate jugglers , but they have to manage without the help of disposable nappies , supermarkets and freezers . |