Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] are " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it not also a fact that waiting lists for houses to rent are increasing and have more than trebled since the Conservatives took office ? |
| 2 | The numbers of teeth involved are often quite small , and where there is a major discrepancy between the digestion of the upper and lower teeth in columns 9 and 10 of Table 3.13 , reference to the actual numbers involved show them to be very small indeed , sometimes no more than one ( columns 7 and 8 ) . |
| 3 | Nowadays there is little real distinction between Proof and Proof before Answer and the greatest majority of cases heard are Proofs before Answer . |
| 4 | This system of payment extends to the whole education system including adult education , where numbers of books sold are reportedly very small — either because of low enrolments or because people are going to classes without books . |
| 5 | The length of time they spent there and the types of homes involved are shown in Table 1 . |
| 6 | Those in which the form of words used are based on the definition of a ‘ light industrial ’ use , i.e. a Class III use under the Town and Country Planning ( Use Classes ) Order 1972 , usually referred to as a ‘ no nuisance clause ’ , being imposed to protect the amenity of the locality , and |
| 7 | On Merseyside thefts from cars are down to 16,251 and numbers of cars stolen are down to 12,992 an overall drop of nine per cent . |
| 8 | You 'll see that both the number of requests for service , and the number of visits made are well up on previous half years , and although some of that is due to probably the highest figure on insect complaints we 've ever had for six months , and erm it 's not all that , much of it is lately the department has been very , very busy indeed . |
| 9 | The results of companies acquired are included from the effective date of acquisition . |
| 10 | The net assets of companies acquired are incorporated in the consolidated accounts at their fair values to the Group after making provisions for expected reorganisation costs and related gains and losses pending reorganisation . |
| 11 | The net assets of companies acquired are incorporated in the consolidated accounts at their fair values to the group at the date of acquisition . |
| 12 | OEMS ( like Wang and Bull ) account for 6%. 70% of models shipped are desktops , 27% desksides and 3% rackmounts — although the latter accounts for 15% of RS/6000 revenues , it says . |
| 13 | Although the families of plants involved are ancient , they are represented in tropical rain forest to different extents in different continents . |
| 14 | The large number of parses produced are unnecessary and unhelpful in the recognition application . |
| 15 | Secondly , the total amount of damages awarded are reduced by any amounts that the defendant is obliged to disgorge under a Commission disgorgement order relating to the same transaction(s) . |
| 16 | It is very clear from the findings of the Survey that little or no change has occurred in the patterns of demand for the major categories of material studied on earlier occasions : the overwhelming majority of items requested are still modern publications , and the demand for foreign-language publications ( and , indeed , for publications in particular foreign languages ) has remained constant . |
| 17 | The second set of characters used are the nature of the covering of the disk , and the form of the radial shields . |
| 18 | of patients surveyed are either ’ satisfied ’ or ’ very satisfied ’ with the service provided . |
| 19 | In western Europe alone , around one million tonnes of plastics waste are recycled each year . |
| 20 | The set of sentences selected are shown in table 3.2 . |
| 21 | Even if the majority of exercises employed are basically the same , the results will vary according to whether you work hard for short periods or do easier work for a longer stretch . |
| 22 | The majority of children referred are over five years , and the Society is actively seeking families who can meet the needs of these children . |
| 23 | ( In 1364–65 and 1384–85 , years for which there are good sets of figures , the numbers of broadcloths exported are respectively 14,724 and 30,479 . ) |
| 24 | In practice some areas of police work are unresearchable , but in principle they should n't be . |
| 25 | Conceptualizations of police work are therefore derived from and embedded in such phenomena as the day-to-day experience of police duties , which is itself contextually related to the sorts of crime that occur in the area in which the station is located , common-sense notions about policing contained in the occupational culture , and stereotypes of policing found in the wider culture . |
| 26 | However , arrested development may also occur as a result of both acquired and age immunity in the host and although the proportions of larvae arrested are not usually so high as in hypobiosis they can play an important part in the epidemiology of nematode infections . |
| 27 | Even small amounts of out-of-hours work are disruptive of one 's home life , the quality of which is of vital importance given the stressful nature of the team 's regular work . |
| 28 | Details of events listed are correct at time of going to press , but please check all information before booking your Warm Hearted Weekend . |
| 29 | Because the types of jobs lost are quite different from the ‘ new ’ jobs , the proportion of Docklands residents in the new jobs is much lower ( about 15 per cent ) than the percentage in the ‘ old ’ jobs ( about 40 per cent ) . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , the sort of jobs offered are really suitable only for those who can accept moving across the country and living in single person staff quarters for a prolonged period . |