Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [pron] is [verb] " in BNC.

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1 You 've got a captive audience there why the hell do n't you do it a sheet why do n't you give them a programme for the next three months exactly what is happening .
2 These tend to be used by very large companies , by companies or organizations where group decisions and committee work are a noticeable feature , and by very small organizations where everybody is regarded as equally important and may want a say in what is going on .
3 Most iniquitous of all are the notorious ‘ closed ’ shops where everything is sold cheaply but which can only be used by the privileged state bureaucrats .
4 And how could you buy your kid New Balance trainers when everyone is wearing Reeboks right now ?
5 ‘ All I can give you at this stage is fine words when what is needed is action .
6 And that was the sort of level of detail to which we thought we might need to go in those districts where it is demonstrated to us , of the district do need to be considered differently .
7 It is May and fifty feet above there is scorching sun but down here it is damp , cold and depressing .
8 It is common to find gaps when nothing is recorded , blank spaces where the minister has forgotten a name when he came to register it after the event , repetitions , erasures and insertions .
9 " I love foliage and I think you have to rely a lot on that in small gardens because you do n't have room to leave dormant areas where nothing is happening for a long period , " she says .
10 The pygmies of Central Africa can not find enough food in the Zaire forests and , indeed , there seems to be no unambiguous ethnographic account of any people living solely off forest products and the only tropical areas where it is believed that such people might have lived are in central Malesia .
11 This simple ‘ bootstrapping ’ approach to language suggests a specific strategy by which teachers and therapists might capitalise on areas of relative competence in order to assist a child in those areas where she is experiencing difficulty .
12 Good , then you must make her responsibilities even clearer , by defining key areas where she is to get a result .
13 This should be sufficient to protect the teacher preparing or passing on the records in any reasonable circumstances where what is written has a valid purpose .
14 Days later it is revealed a tape of a phone call between Diana and her friend James Gilbey exists in which Gilbey calls the Princess ‘ Squidgy ’ and expresses his love for her .
15 Years later it is discovered that Grom reached the Elven Kingdoms of Ulthuan , causing great destruction until finally defeated by the High Elves .
16 Three hundred years later he is remembered as an honourable man , an epithet to be prized above the highest awards attainable .
17 Each year the ‘ hockey stick ’ moves on a year , or sometimes two years , and the only certainty is the constant conviction that five years out everything is going to be all right .
18 Written 100 years ago it is performed here in the costumes of that period .
19 Written 100 years ago it is performed here in the costumes of that period .
20 Picture a once decent apartment building in the Bronx , New York , a part of the city where poverty , drug abuse , AIDS , and prostitution abound , and witness over a few years how it is transformed into a miserable squat and ultimately bulldozed to make way for a new police station .
21 On the most miniature scale of all , smaller even than the demes , were the Attic komai or villages ; even these had their komarchs , though about these officials virtually nothing is known .
22 The engine may be seen on Sundays and on some Saturdays when it is operated .
23 It has been particularly effective in providing a secure home base for families that have been physically scattered by emigration and it seems quite possible that small-scale farming of this kind may enjoy a new vogue , with the greater appreciation of self-provisioning , especially for fuel , to say nothing of the scenic beauty of the places where it is carried on .
24 He does however ride a bike and is already able to throw and kick balls where he is aiming them .
25 The special levy , in years when it is levied , is payable where an RFL has held or received clients ' money in connection with an MNP , or where the MNP has held or received clients ' money .
26 The specification is the ‘ shopping list ’ that is to convey to potential suppliers exactly what is needed against which products may be proposed .
27 His jewel being Gleneagles where he is commemorated by a hole called ‘ Braid 's Brawest ’ .
28 The light in the image formed by the lens actually passes through the neural layers of the retina ( which are almost transparent ) to reach the photoreceptors where it is absorbed .
29 ‘ If she 's not playing in tournaments then she is giving exhibition matches .
30 He will invest it while he is in jail , and use it in socially beneficial ways when he is released , while they will spend it on imported luxuries .
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