Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] are [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , it does provide a simple demonstration of a problem that dogs all our stratigraphical thinking , and as the palaeontologist in question was my student ( and I visited the area with him ) my inclinations are wholly for the second interpretation in this case . |
| 2 | My feet are firmly on the ground . |
| 3 | I never dreamed anyone would take offence because my feet are always under the court benches . ’ |
| 4 | Because I am a Christian , I have found the break less frightening , since I believe that my parents are now in the presence of the same God who is with me . |
| 5 | ‘ All my paintings are ultimately about the human condition , figures doing something or nothing . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , I know my friends are n't on a high intellectual plane like yours ! |
| 7 | Half my photos are still on the wall at home |
| 8 | One of the main criticisms levelled at US and European transnational corporations in Asia , Africa and Latin America is that their operations are predominantly of the export processing variety , employing low wage workers ( mainly ‘ nimblefingered ’ young women ) in monotonous and often physically debilitating labour , the products of which constitute a small proportion of the value-added of the final commodity . |
| 9 | Instead of presenting a strong , clear answer to this misconception , many Christians show that their defences are down at the very place where modern unbelief is most devastating . |
| 10 | Sedgefield constituency Labour Party , meanwhile , has replied gently to our suggestion ( Gadfly , June 3 ) that its meetings are strictly for the blokes . |
| 11 | Her songs are still at the rough-and-ready stage but Harvey 's power comes from her ability to stare men and women right in the eye . |
| 12 | Amazingly they have not lost a league game since the beginning of November , and after lifting the Championship , their eyes are now on a third successive double with the Challenge Cup looming at Wembley next month . |
| 13 | The patient 's plinth is high enough to support his arms comfortably at an angle of 90° to his body , while the second plinth is lower , so that the physiotherapist 's feet are level with the patient 's ankles , and her knees are roughly at the same height as his . |
| 14 | Yet their feet are firmly on the ground . |
| 15 | Yet their feet are firmly on the ground . |
| 16 | Countless other powers depend upon note-taking and the keeping of records , all of which matters are inevitably in the hands of the police themselves . |
| 17 | Mealda Hall 's lifetime experiences have led to her meeting a host of colourful characters and her stories are always worth a listen . |
| 18 | ‘ They just want to tell us which parts of their bodies are out of the Levi 's at any one time . ’ |
| 19 | But 20 per cent of its hops are now in the form of oils and essences and it is a growing sector . |
| 20 | ‘ But she has loved someone else and her thoughts are always in the past ; and her consciousness seems to bother her even at the thought of a possible new love . ’ |
| 21 | MY work has been written in sand and after my death will disappear in a decade or so , ’ wrote August Bournonville ( 1805–79 ) , the Danish choreographer whose ballets are still in the repertory , and whom the Danes have been celebrating with yet another Bournonville festival in Copenhagen . |
| 22 | The cold weather payment scheme is still wholly inadequate , with thousands of pensioners whose incomes are just above the income support level receiving no extra help with their fuel charges . |
| 23 | PEOPLE who help buy the homes they live in but whose names are not on the title deeds should be able to stop the legal owner selling over their heads , the Law Commission for England and Wales recommended yesterday . |
| 24 | The external doses recorded for the fathers in our study are orders of magnitude lower than the external doses received by survivors of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki , whose children are not at an increased risk of childhood leukaemia . |
| 25 | Persistent surface weedkillers remain active in the top few centimetres of the soil , killing new weeds as they germinate , yet they do not harm most established roses , shrubs and trees , whose roots are well below the surface . |
| 26 | But his views are strongly against the regime of his birthplace . |
| 27 | Now my feeling is that in doing an evaluation one ought to try and develop each of these different viewpoints , then leave it to the people concerned that have to make the decisions to pick up each of these and to make the decisions , but at least the evaluation itself is not sort of ruling out of court any of the viewpoints that could be important in that situation , so any person who 's involved , even if they 're in a minority of one , at least feels that his views are there in the evaluation somewhere and they 're made legitimate by it . |
| 28 | Though his eyes are mainly on the lucrative US Seniors Tour , Jacklin also plans to lend support to the more recently established European Seniors circuit . |
| 29 | His fingerprints are all over the car . |
| 30 | Although his injuries are now on the mend , Rex Pritchard is almost certain to be grounded for the rest of the display season . |