Example sentences of "[am/are] [noun pl] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are states that a Buddhist might recognise as " enlightenment " . |
| 2 | There are signs that an upturn in consumer spending might already have been appearing ; keeping Mr Major in Downing Street ensures that that recovery is under way . |
| 3 | There are signs that the lesson is being learnt : like other land reformers before him , Zimbabwe 's President Robert Mugabe is trading collective ideology for private efficiency . |
| 4 | There are signs that the council of Lloyd 's is starting to listen to the names ' cries . |
| 5 | But there are signs that the prime minister has got his timing right and is setting a shrewd course . |
| 6 | According to Petrobras the state-owned oil company and largest corporation in the southern hemisphere some $8.7 billion in dollars and cruzeiros have been invested in the Campos Basin alone and there are signs that the state may be taking a similar line in developing Brazil 's gas resources for energy . |
| 7 | Movement must start at the top , and there are signs that the pool of jet-rated pilots is being used up . |
| 8 | While there are signs that the situation is changing , the reasons for the subject being pervaded by such conservatism and isolationism lie in the history of its development . |
| 9 | The development of these symptoms are signs that the immune system is not working properly . |
| 10 | And there are signs that the central bank is now deliberately easing monetary policy . |
| 11 | There are signs that the current-account deficit is growing more slowly than last year . |
| 12 | Germany is the country with the largest number of digital subscribers ( around 400,000 ) , and there are signs that the spill-over from their conversations may be confusing other electrical equipment , from CD players to computers . |
| 13 | Even though there are signs that the world 's economies are beginning to operate closer together in time terms , nevertheless in the past it has been seldom that every part of the world has been simultaneously in total depression . |
| 14 | These are signs that the ranking of ‘ wife ’ or ‘ housewife ’ is low relative to other occupations — signs which indicate that there may be a measure of agreement in society generally about the status of wife ( such agreement being a crucial determinant of social prestige hierarchies ) . |
| 15 | ‘ I would not wish to make the argument that we 're sinking scientifically , ’ says Sir Eric , ‘ but there are signs that the squeeze has gone too far and that any further squeeze — and all the evidence suggests there is another bit of squeeze in store for us this coming year — will do real damage which will not be easy to recover from . ’ |
| 16 | All the same , there are signs that the situation is slowly beginning to change . |
| 17 | There are signs that the system of chamber finance had collapsed following the death of the king and the arrest of his treasurer of the chamber , and this may have meant that in the short term royal receivers were retaining issues in their own hands until the situation clarified . |
| 18 | But within the statistics there are signs that the mobility of criminals is inflicting more crimes on rural areas than the cities and the amount of vehicle crime continues to cause concern . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , there are signs that the paradigm is approaching exhaustion . |
| 20 | Some Tories think it 's a sop to the right from a weakened premier , the Government insist that the sell off is the best way to attract investment from the private sector into the railways , but there are signs that the break up of B R is n't proving as attractive to outside investors as the government hoped . |
| 21 | There are signs that the system of chamber finance had collapsed following the death of the king and the arrest of his treasurer of the chamber , and this may have meant that in the short term royal receivers were retaining issues in their own hands until the situation clarified . |
| 22 | But in Oxford and Swindon at least there are signs that the traditional rivalries between the 2 games are beginning to change . |
| 23 | This faster scrapping , and the faster growth of product wages which causes it , are signs that the rate of accumulation is excessive in relation to the available labour supply . |
| 24 | DnC 's worse-than-expected results are indicators that the Norwegian banking sector , if perhaps on the road to recovery , is not all well yet . |
| 25 | However there are concerns that the market is rather high at present , which could see a fall in prices generally in the new year . |
| 26 | I am sure that those are sentiments that the whole House would wish to endorse . |
| 27 | Revealing details of Iraq 's latest assurances delivered on March 20 , Rolf Ekeus , head of the joint UN and International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) special commission on Iraq , told a press conference in New York the same day that his commission was " satisfied there are undertakings that the Iraqis are willing to go along with the destruction [ of ] capabilities " which they had not previously agreed to destroy . |
| 28 | This means simply that there are actions that the executive will not take because it knows that the assembly will make a huge fuss . |
| 29 | There are predictions that the deficit could narrow significantly , which would undoubtedly provide support for sterling . |
| 30 | The Soviet Union 's grain harvest has been hit by drought and fuel problems , and there are predictions that the harvest could be between 195 and 200m tonnes , compared with last year 's 218m tonnes . |