Example sentences of "[pers pn] are [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Objects are defined by their function , while actions and those who perform them are viewed as connected parts of a greater whole . |
| 2 | We have moved away from such remedies as being too brutal for a humane society and nowadays those who advocate them are seen as blimpish relics of an imperialist , authoritarian society which favoured cold baths and weals on the buttocks as character forming . |
| 3 | There are currently 79,000 children and young people being cared for by the local authorities in the U.K. and half of them are looking for foster homes . |
| 4 | Assistant Chief Environmental Health Officer , John Copley , says people in Oxford have much less of a chance of receiving help than those in other cities , even though some of them are living in appalling conditions . |
| 5 | There may be 32m cars on the road in a country of 123m people — but , as yet , only 6% of them are fitted with compact-disc players . |
| 6 | These researches and others like them are based on innumerable hours of field study in remote places . |
| 7 | Erm Of the total of goods that are sold in industrialized countries , such as , that have been manufactured , only three percent of them are made in developing countries . |
| 8 | It is an important implication of this that they are never a matter of how the things which have them are related to other things . |
| 9 | Various surface and subsurface crusts are found in many deserts , but it is doubtful how far many of them are forming under present conditions . |
| 10 | Some of them are returned to normal prisons before they ever make the intensive group therapy regime . |
| 11 | Three-quarters of these offences each year are ‘ cleared up ’ , and it transpires that most of them are committed by young males aged between 14 and 29 . |
| 12 | Another reason why you should never go near the line is that many of them are used by electric trains . |
| 13 | Such enterprises now account for more than 60 per cent of industrial employment in countries as far apart as Ghana and Tanzania ; more than half of them are located in small towns and villages , and the extended family is their most important source of labour ; they contribute at least a quarter of total manufacturing output ; and typically they employ between one and ten workers . |
| 14 | Because there are no constraints placed upon the timing of the volunteer 's activities in such a time-free environment , these are called free-running experiments and the rhythms measured during them are known as free-running rhythms . |
| 15 | Make sure yours are fitted with adequate locks |
| 16 | If you buy a different second rod you will have to learn this all over again , but more important , when you are fishing with both rods you will never work with them instinctively . |
| 17 | Technical Education is an exciting subject and makes use of many of the skills you are taught in other Departments such as Art , Computing , English , Mathematics and the Sciences . |
| 18 | So unless you keep goats only for your own needs , you are covered by these Regulations . |
| 19 | You are sacked after 20 years ' service with a week 's notice . |
| 20 | The er I I shall pull back slightly on that comment in that , if it 's jointly owned property it 's outside the will you therefore do n't have to prove the will to deal with that property , but if it is a large estate and you are dealing with other assets , when you do your inland revenue account you also have to refer to property you may have had the power of dealing while you were alive and that would include jointly owned property . |
| 21 | Whether you are dealing with small children or addressing a board meeting , getting information from the man who 's repairing your washing machine or closing a big deal with a new customer , you need to be able to put yourself and your message across . |
| 22 | Real time pressures arise when you are faced with complex tasks and do not have sufficient leeway to consider the best form of action . |
| 23 | I know , of course , why you are inquiring about both women . |
| 24 | You are charged with two offences , the first of which is that at Clitheroe on the twenty sixth of August nineteen eighty eight without lawful excuse you damaged two stained glass windows , a picture frame glass and twelve drinking glasses of varying descriptions belonging to breweries , intending to damage that property , for being reckless as to whether that property would be damaged contrary to section one of the Criminal Damage Act of nineteen seventy one . |
| 25 | In this mode of organising an essay , you divide the issue you are addressing into conflicting positions , or points of view , or sides of an argument . |
| 26 | For example , certain things conspire to give academic register connotations of " seriousness " : you are being assessed on your writing ( a serious matter ) and you are writing about important things , such as culture ( a serious topic ) . |
| 27 | ‘ So you are writing about those things , ’ another Israeli said as he stood in a narrow , shaded lane . |
| 28 | Next time you are struggling with stubborn cables , try this easy way . |
| 29 | Suppose , for example , you are employed for three years , of which the first is to be spent abroad and the other two in Great Britain . |
| 30 | The reason why this happens is that you are thinking about other issues at the time . |