Example sentences of "they be [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they formed the Army Education Corp , during the war , they er , they wore uniform , most of them were warrant officers , and soldiers but in uniform you could come out I mean , they been ordinary soldiers , but they 'd been put put on a charge every time the saw them , you know . |
| 2 | They are deeply-felt songs of pioneering days ; for instance : |
| 3 | Organisations are complex social systems , but must be seen in the context of their technology — ie. they are socio-technical systems . |
| 4 | While victim studies and self-report studies overlap to some extent and are sometimes used in conjunction , they are distinct approaches which need to be defined separately . |
| 5 | Geordies and tykes have never got on particularly well — they are always friendly to one another , but they are distinct groups . |
| 6 | These are rather like undated gilts in that they are perpetual instruments , but interest can be waived or reduced if it would cause the issuer to breach capital adequacy requirements . |
| 7 | Lion prides on the Serengeti are among the largest in Africa and , although some individual animals weigh upwards of 180 kg , they are alert hunters . |
| 8 | This problem is , in practice , not too important because best execution would normally apply to mere counterparties only if they are private customers ( which perhaps should be required ) ; this is because other customers can waive it and it does not apply to market counterparties ( see page 29 below ) at all . |
| 9 | In some countries they are private industries subject to state regulation ; in other countries they are state-run or nationalized industries . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Now , to do that , it means you tax the polluter , you make the polluter pay and you encourage people to do good environmental things by giving them grants or subsidies , but they are financial mechanisms and there is no proposal in here that allows any financial mechanisms . |
| 13 | They have slipped from the standards which have earned them recent success and even though West will be without half back stars Jonathan Wrigley and John Stabler , both injured , they are strong favourites . |
| 14 | For instance , all four operators U , D , L and R of the eight tiles problem are reversible , but they are partial functions on the set of states and so they do not have inverses . |
| 15 | Although somewhat dim-witted they are marvellous workers and willingly light fires , cook and clean . |
| 16 | ‘ It means they are anti-social elements . |
| 17 | They are cunning devils . ’ |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | Saying that they are outer things involves the denial of the autonomous status of self-testimony . |
| 20 | They are swiftly-moving animals and not easy to get hold of . |
| 21 | The witch-hunt then moved on to try to unseat the editor of Borba and it is clearly the intention of the Serbian nationalists , who have seized control of the Serbian Party , that they should control all newspapers and journals published in Belgrade , even if they are federal organs such as Borba . |
| 22 | Most churches , when asked , claim that they are friendly churches . |
| 23 | Defenders of camp and machismo point out that they are parodic critiques — in the first case of what is allegedly insulted ( femininity ) , in the second of what is allegedly aped ( masculinity ) . |
| 24 | Partly because the words are muffled by a warm , dense wall of flesh ; partly because they are rhyming couplets of multiple hexameters , mouthed in an obscure Baltic dialect now lost . |
| 25 | They are dry-cell plants ( sprouted and packed in peat ) . |
| 26 | In general they are one-way tracks on both sides of main roads between intersections , at which there are grade-separated flyovers or level junctions with traffic light priority for cyclists ( Figure 9.11 ) . |
| 27 | Bobs : Taken from the Amiga , where they are Blitter Objects . |
| 28 | ‘ They are modern classics , simple styles and very fairly priced . ’ |
| 29 | In the 1945 general election , a mass meeting of 1,200 pensioners endorsed Barbara Castle and John Edwards , ‘ not because they are Labour candidates , but because they will support YOU ’ . |
| 30 | Unlike chemical antiseptics , essential oils are harmless to tissue , yet they are powerful aggressors towards germs . |