Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [am/are] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They might laugh when I wave my hands in the air , but what they do n't understand is , my fingers are dancing to high hat rhythms . ’ |
| 2 | My teeth are chattering like mad . |
| 3 | My thanks are owed to countless sportsmen and women for providing ammunition for my fortnightly meanderings . |
| 4 | My feet are tangled in old cans and cardboard boxes . |
| 5 | Whenever I take hold of a woman I feel as though my feet are slithering on tufted grass and goat willow . |
| 6 | My glasses are creased by running water and I can no longer see past the end of the boat . |
| 7 | ' It is just that my friends are coming under great pressure from their communities over the incident . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ My friends are coming under great pressure , ’ said the kadi . |
| 9 | Q EVERY year my onions are ruined by small grubs eating the roots . |
| 10 | It would be helpful if responses could indicate the extent to which their views are influenced by conceptual issues , practicality or the desirability of international harmonisation of accounting requirements . |
| 11 | However , while agreeing with Bolinger in almost every instance on his raw data , as to which adjectives are limited to prenominal position and which are ambiguous , we disagree with him in almost all cases as to the underlying reasons . |
| 12 | At the federal level the highest organ of state authority is the bicameral Federal Assembly , comprising the Chamber of the People ( 101 seats for the Czech Lands and 49 seats for Slovakia ) , and the Chamber of Nations ( 75 seats for each republic ) , to which deputies are elected by universal adult suffrage . |
| 13 | Its programmes are presented by well-established ‘ personality ’ broadcasters , some of whom are very music-oriented . |
| 14 | And , in any case , it is ridiculous to condemn boxing itself for attracting black aspirants when the reasons for their involvements are rooted in historical and social processes . |
| 15 | Unisys does n't regret its decision to eschew RISC and stick with Intel , and is making sure its products are enabled for multiple levels of Intel chips , including the P6 , now expected at the end of next year . |
| 16 | Nonetheless , Bonfield attributes the relative success of the company to a strategy dating from the mid-1980s — one of expanding into Europe ; targeting particular industries , such as retail and finance ; growing its services-related business ; and ensuring that its products are based on open systems standards . |
| 17 | Their houses are coloured in weathered pastels and ochres set amidst silvery olive trees . |
| 18 | In this type of survey a sample of people is recruited to a panel and their attitudes are surveyed at different times . |
| 19 | Their surfaces are covered with tiny pores through which water is drawn into the body by flagella , and then expelled through larger vents . |
| 20 | These suggest unsteadiness and imbalance ; brittle textures and hard yellow-greens evoke the dazzling clear-cut light of reason , but their surfaces are marred by thin wounds and blemishes which , camouflage by the paint 's substance , present an insidious challenge to the perfect symmetry of composition . |
| 21 | Her pyjamas are made of thin translucent cotton . |
| 22 | As its name implies , this is a market in which funds are lent to local authorities . |
| 23 | Chemical analysis has indicated which compounds are associated with different hop flavours . |
| 24 | Such basic matters as what people believed about their own bodies — made up of humours — or their pasts are juxtaposed with fascinating excursions into such areas of belief as the fairies and mythical beasts . |
| 25 | Its schools are set in green-lawned campuses , and for years its teachers have been among the highest-paid in Texas . |
| 26 | Holists and individualists may both be said to have an overarching interest in understanding the mechanisms which operate in the social world , but beneath this unifying umbrella their eyes are fixed on different features on the landscape , and their respective theories are to be judged in relation to the tasks they set themselves . |
| 27 | Their subtle colouration quickly blends into the aquarium , and many of their designs are modelled from actual logs and rocks . |
| 28 | Their addresses are listed in local telephone directories . |
| 29 | Here , I want to discuss the principles on which variables are selected for quantitative analysis . |
| 30 | Before Morris introduced this type of maze , it had become common practice to study spatial learning in a more conventional version of the same task , in which rats are placed in various forms of radial mazes with four , six or eight arms , and must learn to run to a goal box containing food or water at the end of one of the arms . |