Example sentences of "[pron] are [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Thomas was quite willing to try , even though ‘ four gentlemen , two of whom are of another communion ’ , had declined to sign the petition . |
| 2 | aye but I mean some of them are on this Committee as well I mean Wendy and I for a start erm so that would be good right let's try and give that one a |
| 3 | Although they are rarer fossils , some of them are of such interest that they are worth mentioning here . |
| 4 | And a lot of them are before that . |
| 5 | Five of them are in that happy position by chance ; one , just one , is there by deliberate design , carefully phased and executed over months . |
| 6 | The skills and expertise required to manage or advise them are in many respects different to those required in a large organization . |
| 7 | Mm , some of , a lot of them are like that |
| 8 | The companies that produce them are amongst several in the region celebrating today 's announcement of Queens Awards for exports and technology . |
| 9 | ‘ But just between you and me and SHE magazine , her Majesty and I are like that , ‘ said Dame Edna , indicating a royal chumminess that went beyond mere Commonwealth ties . |
| 10 | My are like that , going from the |
| 11 | We ourselves are to some extent part of this problem , but we do at least live and work in the village full time . |
| 12 | This emphasis reappears in the ‘ process ’ justifications of higher education , advanced both by its providers and consumers , in terms of training the mind , learning to think , developing autonomy and so on , notions which are to some extent ‘ subject-free ’ , and which will be explored further in Chapter 4 . |
| 13 | Emanuel Shinwell , who has never changed his mind on this issue , was clear in 1918 about the wrong-headedness of destroying the people 's grammar schools while leaving unscathed the privileged Public Schools : ‘ We were afraid to tackle the public schools to which the wealthy people send their sons , but at the same time are ready to throw overboard the grammar schools which are for many working-class boys the stepping-stone to the universities and a useful career . |
| 14 | I have so far dealt only with what might be considered extraneous matters which are of little concern to the non-collector , who can read and enjoy a book without worrying about endpapers , half-titles , advertisements and the rest ; though even the ordinary reader must reach a point where bibliographical matters begin to impinge . |
| 15 | An ongoing project is concerned with the assessment of mineral deposits such as building materials and industrial minerals for local use ( which are of little interest to international mining companies ) , and the development of techniques for beneficiating minerals from such deposits . |
| 16 | " Meanings " are neither equated with speakers ' intentions , nor with recipients ' interpretations ; both are looked on as mental entities which are of little interest as long as they do not " materialize " in interaction . |
| 17 | Earlier in his essay on the rule of law Oakeshott had suggested that to deliberate the jus of lex is ‘ to invoke a particular kind of moral consideration : … the negative and limited consideration that the prescriptions of law should not conflict with a prevailing educated moral sensibility capable of distinguishing between the conditions of ‘ virtue ’ , the conditions of moral association ( ’ good conduct ’ ) , and those which are of such a kind that they should be imposed by law ( ’ justice ’ ) ' . |
| 18 | Given the huge disparities which are of such enormous benefit to those at the top of the scale , who will pick up the bill ? |
| 19 | Nevertheless there are a number of DBMS , possibly the most well known being IDMS , which are of this type . |
| 20 | That report would include such grants as we may feel are of a which are of more corporate nature , rather than specifically a service based one , and how we would recommend the council to deal with them . |
| 21 | Beyond the page-turner are the real semi-literate books which are of another kind entirely . |
| 22 | Much of this area has been introduced by the analysis of social distance ; there are , however , other social factors which are of some importance . |
| 23 | Before turning to the grounds of appeal there are two matters which I must mention which are of some importance . |
| 24 | Serious errors , such as the two examples given , are usually corrected very quickly , but many newspaper readers who have personal knowledge of a news item find inaccuracies in reporting which are of less importance and which do not get corrected . |
| 25 | But , in true South African style , it also owns large stakes in other subsidiaries outside mining , which are worth another 9 billion rand . |
| 26 | They believe the goods , which are worth several thousand pounds , were all stolen by one gang . |
| 27 | A ‘ hard case ’ — and I am not disputing that for the Bland parents it is indeed a very hard case — has been found which can , and I believe will , be skilfully exploited to justify the ‘ dignified ’ removal of a subtly-expanding range of people who will be deemed to be living lives which are below some ‘ expert 's ’ criterion of an acceptable standard . |
| 28 | The sort of things that we cover in the er er code of practice for charging to clients which are outside this . |
| 29 | There is also attendance allowance and there are various things like that which are outside this . |
| 30 | For this reason , and because of the limited use for such general data-types , the only data-types smaller than a word which are at all commonly provided for in the instruction set are half-words , characters , and decimal digits . |