Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun prp] are [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be difficult to think of God as anything other than ‘ Father ’ and ‘ Son ’ when the biblical metaphors for God are male , and Jesus was a male human being . |
| 2 | ‘ Not all spies for Germany are German , ’ pontificated Sir Thomas . |
| 3 | The spores of Saprolegnia are present in all bodies of water , as evidenced by infertile fish eggs or uneaten food pellets quickly developing that characteristic white ‘ fur coat ’ . |
| 4 | The history books of Indonesia are full of heroes . |
| 5 | The variables of DP are free because the constraints of TRP are equalities and reflects the fact that the i = 1 equation of ( 8.1 ) has been dropped from the constraints of TRP . |
| 6 | The spitting cobras of Africa are capable of shooting their venom at an enemy from a distance of 6 feet , causing eye damage and severe pain . |
| 7 | Dunning and colleagues conclude that authors like Clarke are guilty of romanticising working-class history , ‘ attributing to it a degree of family , inter-age-group and neighbourhood solidarity it has probably never possessed ’ ( ibid.:237 ) . |
| 8 | The President 's successors in Kabul are ready to work with the UN peace process , but it is hard to imagine the rebels agreeing to join in when victory is so close . |
| 9 | We , at Motorlux Volvo , recognise that over 35% of all car drivers in Britain are female and their particular motoring requirements are more often than not completely misunderstood by the average dealership . |
| 10 | With reports from Western sources suggesting that UN sanctions against Iraq were working [ see also pp. 37639 ; 37695 ] , the Belgian Foreign Minister Mark Eyskens claimed on Nov. 18 that the effects were " visible in the factories " , where there was a " growing lack of spare parts " , although " the shops in Baghdad are full of things brought from Kuwait " . |
| 11 | The Government 's proposals for second homes in Wales are wrong . |
| 12 | Poll tax arrears in Darlington are likely to be £1.8m. greater than the council had allowed for , members heard . |
| 13 | On the basis of the limited evidence available some 5 per cent of all schools in England are likely to have a significant population of children for whom English is not their mother tongue . |
| 14 | Further attractions at Rovaniemi are husky sleigh rides , costumed Lapps and a visit to the post office of the real Father Christmas . |
| 15 | This means that the cities of France are under-represented and there is a considerable right-wing majority , three-quarters in 1986 when the rest of France voted 52 per cent for the right . |
| 16 | The mobility of vast sums of transnational capital means that the investment strategies of TNCs are crucial to , but largely beyond the control of , domestic economic policy , and hence that state autonomy is reduced . |
| 17 | ‘ The Mysteries of Greathaven are famed even in the far distant streets of my own home town … ’ |
| 18 | The origins of HIV are uncertain yet one thing we do know is that HIV has the potential to affect everybody worldwide . |
| 19 | The winters of Kislev are savage , merciless and cruelly and long . |
| 20 | ‘ THE ENVIRONS of Stokesley are fertile , ’ wrote John Bigland in The Beauties of England and Wales in 1812 , ‘ being chiefly in grass and not affording enough employment for the inhabitants , a general langour , as Mr Graves very justly observes , appears to prevail . |
| 21 | The other three directors of I.B.C. are resident abroad . |
| 22 | Roughly six tonnes of plutonium and 30 tonnes of HEU are due to be released annually over the next 15 years as Soviet warheads are scrapped . |
| 23 | The higher mountains of Snowdonia are famed for their montane vegetation and relict arctic-alpine plants and insects . |
| 24 | The feet of Stewpid are right behind me now , pounding louder than my heart beats . |
| 25 | But there is another reason why communities like Belfast are difficult to deal with , and this is that the phonology of such communities is not usually adequately described and codified beforehand , whereas more information of this kind is available for varieties closer to ‘ standard ’ English . |
| 26 | The European Commission is in dispute with the German Government over the level of their production subsidies , but I assure my hon. Friend that imports from Germany are minimal and that the real competition for the British coal mining industry comes from other fuels . |
| 27 | However , in numerical terms their communities in Britain are small , so that their linguistic influence on the Afro-Caribbean community construed as a whole is weak . |
| 28 | The Rococo Gardens in Painswick are famous for their annual carpet of snowdrops . |
| 29 | Police duties in Easton are similar to those in non-divided societies , and the manner in which these tasks are viewed and accomplished parallels that elsewhere . |
| 30 | ALL LINES FROM ATLANTA ARE BUSY |