Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] are [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The geometrical part of that framework is demonstrable because , says Hobbes , the geometrical shapes which are its objects can be created by ourselves . |
| 2 | You 've got to have in mind Who are your family and dependents ? |
| 3 | Saxton Bampfylde tries to be extra sensitive , open and considerate , not only to the clients who are its bread and butter , but also to candidates , who frequently feel they have been ridden roughshod over and hard-done-by in the search process . |
| 4 | Tokyo 's newly rising share prices are likely to prove as fickle as the foreigners who are their main support |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are his Department 's plans to maximise the number of people on the 1992-93 electoral register ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 6 | Diodorus ' sources were less interested in it than in Sicily , as was Diodorus himself : he gives the Roman consuls and even some episodes of Roman history like the Decemvirate , but does not help much with the Greek cities which are our present concern . |
| 7 | They are not so much status-based as functional , but they have an all-pervasive influence on the individual 's life far beyond the narrow functions which are their specific object . |
| 8 | In other words , they 're taking a lot of the task that used to be given to manufacturers away from them and so manufacturers today are not by and large so concerned with manufacturing brands which are their own and will sit on retailers ' shelves as with providing a product for a retailer who wants to construct his own brand . |
| 9 | All three have appeared simultaneously on the occasion of the major exhibition at the Hayward Gallery what are their relative contributions to our knowledge ? |
| 10 | For this to be acceptable to teachers they have to have confidence in the ability and independence of the inspectors : independence , that is , from the education authorities who are their employers . |
| 11 | Should we advise Her Majesty under whose Charter we operate , that the time has come to devolve our responsibilities gradually to the institutions who are our partners ? … |
| 12 | His argumentation is diminished and made much less coherent through successive drafts of the novel , while the sheer rattle or patter of those smooth large grains which are his discourse gets carefully worked up . |
| 13 | Locke 's distinction between complex ideas , and the simple ideas which are their component parts , copes with this . |
| 14 | At such times , I wonder at my own job and the meaningless sterility of the statistics which are my trade . |
| 15 | With its aim of achieving ‘ a greater unity between its Members for the purpose of safeguarding and realising the ideals and principles which are their common heritage and facilitating their economic and social progress ’ , the new body became Western Europe 's first postwar political organisation , one which immediately and daringly claimed that it would work for ‘ an economic and political union ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ But never mind , darling , ’ he said , ‘ in the sight of God you are my wife ! ’ |
| 17 | Okay , so to negotiate and achieve some sort of compromise what are your objectives ? |
| 18 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what are Her Majesty 's Government 's principal goals during the United Kingdom presidency of the EC . |
| 19 | Read the publications which are your target . |
| 20 | N. Who are your friends ? |
| 21 | This posits that the company or any group of individuals acting together for a common purpose creates a living organism , or a real person , capable of willing and acting through the people who are its organs just as a natural person wills and acts through their brain , mouth and hands . |
| 22 | My account of political integrity takes the personification much more seriously , as if a political community really were some special kind of entity distinct from the actual people who are its citizens . |
| 23 | Yet these are the same people who are our neighbours , our friends and those who sit beside us in the cinema or at a football ground . |
| 24 | The hierarchy of a church is important in the libidinal ties in churches , for they do not only rest on the love of the abstract figure of Christ , but on living people who are his priests , bishops and ministers in the various groups . |
| 25 | You pay the financing costs for all those people who are your customers and who owe you money . |
| 26 | All the people there are our brothers and sisters and relations so there are very few strangers around and women do n't have to wear Burkhas . |
| 27 | Centuries ago they created torsion powered and counter-weighted devices which are their equivalent of cannons , perfecting them to such a degree that they are in many ways superior to crude gunpowder weapons . |
| 28 | It overflows with bubbles which are our thoughts . |
| 29 | The composer and the writer of the text ( where one is used ) mediate and transcribe the words and music which are their particular inspiration from God . |
| 30 | Like most of you I suspect , I am totally f-ed off with Leeds United at the moment , but one subject that does cheer me a little is the young players who are our future . |