Example sentences of "are the [noun] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1882 one of the debates held in the YMCA in Portree was entitled ‘ Are the visits of tourists as a whole beneficial to the Highlands ? ’ |
| 2 | You may have been conned into believing that successful human beings are the ones with loads of brains and loads of friends but the truth is different ! |
| 3 | What matters most are the attitudes of teachers to parents and parents to teachers — whether there is genuine mutual respect , whether the parents understand what the schools are doing for individual children and ( whether ) teachers realise how dependent they are upon parental support . |
| 4 | Pressure was put on some MPs who are the directors of companies from the bosses of the companies , warning them not to vote against the Government . |
| 5 | In TV , the cost is based on TV Ratings ( TVRs ) , which are the percentage of households in which the TV is turned on to ITV at the time the ad is run ; in press , the cost is per thousand readers ( or , occasionally , circulation ) of the given publication ; in cinema , it is based on audience sizes ; in posters , on people passing the poster and , therefore , able to see it . |
| 6 | Let = β 1 /β s where β 1 and β s are the ratios of changes in the prices of the long and short positions , respectively , to the change in the market index ; then the adjusted spread ratio is p = F 1 /F s or ( F 1 β 1 ) / ( F s β B s ) . |
| 7 | These are the monuments to generations of individual farmers ploughing and draining their fields . |
| 8 | It asks why pupils have been categorized in terms of their sex or ‘ race ’ , why girls and black pupils have been defined as problems ; what is meant by racism and sexism within policy initiatives and it asks what are the consequences for teachers of labelling and categorizing problems in particular ways . |
| 9 | Data for my research was obtained from four main sources : detailed interviews with ‘ samples ’ of front-line workers , such as social workers and health visitors ; a participant observation study of how a sample of new cases were investigated and managed ; examination of files and records ; attendance at case conferences , which are the meetings of professionals with relevant knowledge of a particular case to decide whether child abuse has taken place , and what course of action is in the best interests of the child , or children , concerned . |
| 10 | The work settings of professionals are the subject of contributions from Celia Davies and Topsy Murray , Robert Dingwall and John Eekelaar . |
| 11 | Matters such as standards of dress are the responsibility of managers in Departments and agencies . |
| 12 | Only experience of such an exercise can reveal how different are the views of individuals about the situation in which they are working together . |
| 13 | Under the heading , ’ Other Benefits ’ — uncosted — it said : ’ The further benefits from Nurse Prescribing are the benefits to patients of faster access to some prescription items and the benefits they will derive from additional items prescribed for them by District Nurses and Health Visitors . ’ |
| 14 | So , what are the benefits of additives in foods we commonly consume ? |
| 15 | What are the experiences of girls as learners of mathematics ? |
| 16 | Also in that section , I examine the possible answers to the other questions posed previously — that is , ‘ what are the experiences of girls as learners of mathematics ? ’ and ‘ are girls treated fairly in mixed-sex mathematics classrooms ? ’ . |
| 17 | Such reports suggest , often in the choice of vocabulary as much as in overt statement , that classrooms and football grounds are the settings for scenes of anarchy and disorder . |
| 18 | Operators of the new space are the reverses of operators of the original . |
| 19 | The abiding informal rules are the meeting of obligations for the rest of the gang . |
| 20 | The extensive upland landscapes of the UK , and the varied and rich wildlife they support , are the product of centuries of predominantly pastoral agricultural activity . |
| 21 | As Lipsky ( 1979 ) notes , many local government services are delivered by ‘ street-level bureaucrats ’ ( such as social workers and teachers ) whose decisions are the product of negotiations between client and professional . |
| 22 | Of interest are the relations between changes in the labour-market and changes in household organisation . |
| 23 | At least there are the ghosts of meanings in there and I can dream in the space between electrons . |
| 24 | Roughly speaking , plain , unemotional , ordered " talking " , which is heavily dependent upon our ability to recognize and encode binary discriminations ( distinctive features in phonology and logical oppositions in argument ) , has been shown to be a function of the left hemisphere of the brain , while emotional responses , which are the consequence of reactions to sensory inputs from outside , are a function of the right hemisphere . |
| 25 | Others are the use of computers in aiding designers and in controlling production processes . |
| 26 | Here are the addresses of prisoners to whom they can be sent : . |
| 27 | Are the conventions in materials from other cultures — books from China , animated cartoons from Japan , and so on — understood by young readers in the West , for example ? |
| 28 | Instances are the lending of constables on the occasion of large gatherings in and outside private premises , as on the occasions of weddings , athletic or boxing contests or race meetings , and the provision of constables at large railway stations . |
| 29 | Among these are the completion of assignments on time , attendance for appointments ( including tutorials and examinations ) , undertaking the necessary groundwork for the course — whether in the laboratory , studio or library — and accepting the customary house rules , such as not interrupting ( or barracking ) the lecturers . |
| 30 | Right : A range of stunters in the authors ' collection shows how varied are the shapes of kites in the 1990s . |