Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pron] are [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Change is always hard but clearly is even harder if the reasons for it are not explained . |
| 2 | Both Helicobacter pylori and non-steroidal non-inflammatory drugs ( NSAIDs ) are well established risk factors for gastric and duodenal ulceration but interactions between them are poorly described . |
| 3 | There are exemptions from the proposed requirement in this connection , which are intended to obviate the need to provide details of ordinary shares , the characteristics of which are well understood . |
| 4 | postmodernism 's self-reflexiveness can be defended , even on the grounds of responsibility upon which dismissals of it are usually based . |
| 5 | Snowy owl assemblages have relatively higher rates of molar loss than barn owl and long-eared owl assemblages , and this almost certainly reflects their dominance by lemmings , the teeth of which are loosely held in the jaws . |
| 6 | The usual method of incorporation is for the exemption terms to be set out in printed conditions which are commonly attached to or referred to in the auction catalogue and copies of which are usually displayed on the premises . |
| 7 | But there are other recurring fingerprints — melodic motifs , rhythmic patterns , harmonic progressions — the secrets of which are perhaps known only to a handful of Shostakovich 's oldest and closest friends . |
| 8 | Models of them are also used at the circus marking the finish of each lap , just as eggs indicated the start . |
| 9 | In studies of ‘ foreign ’ labour movements in countries other than one 's own , the selected countries are usually treated separately and comparisons between them are rarely made ( Meyers , 1967 ) . |
| 10 | Most readers of this book are likely to have grown up in one or other of the many contemporary versions of what are often lumped together under the general label " modern industrial societies " . |
| 11 | oh that 's the way we did it and we got it something off , this guy also said which some auctioneers like who are highly recognized |
| 12 | The ideas behind it are partly derived from Hartley 's chapter on The Pleasures and Pains of the Imagination , which explained that — ‘ the grandeur of some [ natural ] scenes , and the novelty of others , by exciting surprise and wonder [ makes ] a great difference in the preceding and subsequent states of mind ’ ; he also contrasted ‘ the offensiveness , dangers , and corruption of populous cities , and the health , tranquillity and innocence which the actual view , or mental contemplation , of rural scenes introduces ’ . |
| 13 | The railway and the many stories about it are usually mentioned in guidebooks as being one of the local points of interest . |
| 14 | erm Many of the problems of what are usually called ‘ advanced capitalist industrial economies ’ are similar , erm and I think it is increasingly the case that we find that we ca n't tackle them on our own , we need to consult , we need to learn from each other . |
| 15 | There are other goods which are held in common ownership , such as the air , the sea and common land , which it is difficult to prevent people from using because property rights in them are not assigned to individual owners . |
| 16 | The glissando is so rapid that the repetitions of certain notes in it are not heard . |
| 17 | Portents in plenty are also reported — " a tempest dripping fire " ( St Elmo 's fire ? ) , a lion walking sulkily through the city , the bird of night hooting and shrieking at noon-day and of course the soothsayer 's warning to " Beware the Ides of March " . |
| 18 | Other people 's assessments of us are usually based on what they think they know about us . |
| 19 | To her daughter who came sometimes to weep silently and only opened her mouth to sing tonelessly after … well , after many things the details of which are best forgotten . |
| 20 | Homemaker design One of the most popular designs from the Fifties , items of which are probably hidden away in cupboards around the region . |
| 21 | Yet each of these monotheistic faiths developed its own distinctive mysticism , which was instinctively recognised by the establishment as an authentic — even an honoured — spirituality , though relations with it are sometimes strained . |
| 22 | In prayer-rug designs this arch-shaped form is usually found at the top end of the composition , although it is sometimes employed at both ends in what are generally referred to as " double-ended " prayer rugs ( pls. 17 and 18 ) . |
| 23 | There is concern about the law in this area and I believe that the arguments on it are finely balanced . |
| 24 | The international system not only has a major division between communist and capitalist states but also deeper cultural divisions between what are usually termed the First and Third worlds . |
| 25 | There is good evidence that the differences between them are not caused by differences between the DNA sequence of their genes , although it may be that different genes are active in different kinds of cells . |
| 26 | Differences between them are rarely taken seriously . |
| 27 | Though his list and its implications have been largely ignored by writers on the Muftilik , apart from a passing nod from Mustakimzade , his view was adopted directly , indirectly or independently by Hezarfen , d'Ohsson and Hammer , and echoes of it are occasionally found in other authors . |
| 28 | Episodes Four and Five saw the turn of Jacqueline Hill ( Barbara ) to take a fortnight 's holiday — her character being conveniently left aboard the space-craft , the sets of which are not seen again after Part Three . |
| 29 | Under the terms of the 1982 Constitution legislative authority is vested in the National People 's Congress ( NPC ) , the 2,978 members of which are indirectly elected ( most recently in 1988 — see p. 36101 ) for five years . |
| 30 | Legislative authority is vested in a unicameral National Parliament , the 38 members of which are popularly elected for up to four years . |