Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun] are [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My personal thoughts are of a collection of official Junkers models I once saw in Frankfurt , these included an F.13 and most unusual , a Ju52/3m floatplane all sectioned-off to show not only technical , but also cabin accommodation details . |
| 2 | Well it so happens I was not born in Nottingham , though my early memories are of Nottingham , right even from infant school , which er started at five years of age till about seven . |
| 3 | My only misgivings are in the finale , ‘ Socrates ’ . |
| 4 | I want now to look at some of these images of the female self in feminist discourse : my particular examples are from the work of Mary Daly , Marilyn Frye and Kate Millett . |
| 5 | My grown-up children are on their way to see me , and in order to do so are having to travel a two-hour journey on the motorway . |
| 6 | This may not appear to be a splendid dish , but its star-rating qualities are in its simplicity . |
| 7 | In its narrow streets are to be found the great architectural masterpieces of Fatamid and Mamaluke Cairo . |
| 8 | Its regional archives are in Wellingborough , Middlesbrough and Deeside ( plus , for Wales and Scotland , Cardiff and Glasgow ) . |
| 9 | 4.9 Employees who collect or carry money as part of their normal work are at risk of violence or assault . |
| 10 | include FINGER , for ‘ telephone'-type enquiries , i.e. finding the e-mail address for the person or institution you want ; GOPHER , a system of linked menus to help find resources anywhere in the Internet ; ARCHIE , which allows searching indexes to remote computers to find out which of their searchable files are of interest to you ; WAIS , for searching remote databases ; and WWW ( World-Wide-Web ) , which is similar but which uses an extremely user-friendly full screen with hypertext features . |
| 11 | For Weber , the sociologist needed to understand ( verstehen ) the subjective experience of ‘ ideal-typical ’ human individuals located within particular societies , classes and cultures — not , of course , denying that social forces shape and influence individuals , but insisting that individual human beings and the meanings they use to interpret their social world are of prime importance in understanding society . |
| 12 | In Asian women 's lives this institutionalised racism and its social consequences are of extreme importance . |
| 13 | Most of the materials chiefly esteemed today for their symbolic value are of mineral origin . |
| 14 | Within its tiny confines are to be found thousands of carefully sorted postcards , old and new ( some in categories such as ‘ Giotto ’ , ‘ Snakes ’ , ‘ Cities ’ , ‘ Bourgeois ’ ) and because of the enormous variety , a visitor is virtually guaranteed to spend some money once inside the door . |
| 15 | The RKRP has been officially registered with the Russian justice ministry and its central bodies are in St Petersburg — referred to as Leningrad in all party documents . |
| 16 | Whereas the central sector is mainly hilly terrain and the south is flat and marshy , the north is the only part of the frontier in which real mountains are to be found . |
| 17 | As we saw in World War II when SOE agents in France were deliberately sacrificed in order to plant deception schemes upon the Germans , ' ! espionage is a very brutal-game in which human lives are of no more significance than pieces on a chess board . |
| 18 | The Cotswolds villages with their honey-coloured buildings are worth exploring , and the towns of Worcester , Hereford , Gloucester and Lichfield whose magnificent medieval cathedrals dominate the skyline . |
| 19 | San Antonio , Texas-based Datapoint Corp — its operational headquarters are in Paris ( France , not Texas ) these days — has launched a speech-interactive voice response system designed to translate telephone input into database software instructions . |
| 20 | They are 5,000–500,000 km long , their tips move at 30–300 km and their kinetic energies are between and joules . |
| 21 | The sole survivor , 59 , was built in 1902 by the Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Company , and its unusual bogies are of box construction which were prone to working loose under intensive operating conditions . |
| 22 | Its national headquarters are in Florida . |
| 23 | But as a suggestion it seems rather to name the difficulty than to solve it : which false beliefs are to be counted as relevant ? |
| 24 | Consultation covers the way in which national programmes are to be introduced at these levels , and matters such as the efficiency of working arrangements , closure plans , staffing arrangements and relations with the public . |
| 25 | ‘ In the last analysis , therefore , it is for Parliament to decide the extent to which legal services are to be provided at public expense to meet the needs of the majority of the population . |
| 26 | His concern in this text seems to be to explain which legal relationships are like sale : his list comprises receipt as a consequence of barter , of payment , of settlement ( in court ) , and of contractual promise ( so long as not gratuitous ) . |
| 27 | While it is clear what the publishers stand to gain by investing both money and effort in ensuring that their key titles are on the shelves at all times , there might be more reluctance on the part of the booksellers to accept this encroachment onto their territory . |
| 28 | Paul Newman and Robert Redford might now be right for the roles of a pair of outlaws on their last legs who flee to Bolivia to find that civilisation and its increased firepower are after them there as well , but in 1968 they were more an emblem of defiant youth and , rather than be riddled with bullets , they go out with a freeze-to-sepia and some plunky Burt Bacharach music . |
| 29 | This project aims to discover which environmental effects are of most concern to a variety of groups , to incorporate those environmental effects into a microcomputer model for the assessment of energy supply and demand strategies , and to make the model available to those groups with an interest in energy . |
| 30 | ‘ You know what men are like — swearing that their casual lovers are of no account , yet going berserk when we tell them the same thing ! ’ |