Example sentences of "[adv] are [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 So are you helping with the catering side or are you running a cake stall ?
2 So are you sitting in the front or at the back ?
3 Aye the , many of the reasons for these being over are nothing to do with the efficiency of the design office , they 're due to the efficiency of the s
4 Since the Revolution in 1974 , women have gradually become more involved in the decision-making processes , and no longer are they confined to the teaching and nursing professions .
5 Or , even more radically are we faced with the need for an entirely new concept of reality ?
6 Only now are we returning to the age-old problem of nationalism to which my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool , West Derby ( Mr. Wareing ) referred .
7 Then are we going to the pa wallpaper shop ?
8 But how are we to cut through the political rhetoric to see what lies behind the disagreement ?
9 How are you getting to the Galleria ?
10 Er , how are you fixed for the beginning of next month ? or the week after that ?
11 Sure , how are you doing with the , the drink .
12 How are you coping with the BOTTOM TONER exercise ?
13 So when are you coming to the van then ?
14 When are you playing at the Grove ?
15 How else are we to break through the effects of centuries of compliance and make the Copts erect and independent once again ? ’
16 Where are we to account for the hints , implicit purposes , assumptions , social attitudes and so on that are effectively communicated by the use of language , not to mention the figures of speech ( e.g. metaphor , irony , rhetorical questions , understatement ) that have preoccupied theorists of rhetoric and literature ?
17 The testimony of a witness in a case tried at Matara early in the nineteenth century illustrates the lack of plausibility of much court testimony : ‘ I saw the two prisoners drive a head of cattle — It was in the high road — It was about two hours before dark — We asked them where are you going with the animal — Is this not the animal of the schoolmaster .
18 Neither are they covered by the 1984 Act , as s. 1(7) of that Act specifically excludes them .
19 Why are they seduced by the marketing of the fast food producers ?
20 ‘ If we 're both here , why are we bothering with the phone ? ’
21 Why are we taken through the process of construction in such detail ?
22 Why are you hiding in the cupboard , Finn ? ’ she asked like a mother to an inexplicable child at the end of a hard day .
23 Why are you asking about the headsail ? ’ she enquired , steering the conversation on to less painful ground .
24 Why are you sleeping on the floor ? ’ he asked seriously .
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