Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [pron] are [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They both show how we are slaves of the car . |
| 2 | Well , oh yes , I 'm sure I 'm not saying that 's the only thing that controls people 's food intake I mean clearly there are things cultural some cultures , the Japanese seem to love eating raw fish , I mean how they can bring themselves to do it I do now know , I mean the raw is I do n't think I 'd want to eat again , but er erm not always if they were cooked either , but erm the , the er and certainly if you look at the Australian Aborigines even though we take the Australian Aborigines as our kind of primeval people , they have astonishing food taboos , I mean their attitudes to food are very very culturally er effective to , to a quite extraordinary extent , some so that somebody somebody discovered that eating a tabooed food by accident , they 'll get very ill , a kind of psychosomatic illness . |
| 3 | ‘ Sure you know where we are Ben ? ’ |
| 4 | I mean surely there are people in the careers ser |
| 5 | Wherever you turn nowadays there are people who insist on spilling out their lives at you . |
| 6 | In the real world systems and networks fail so there are times when our systems are not available . |
| 7 | I said but when I come here there are cars everywhere , I says on on the picture |
| 8 | Er I merely want to comment on the erm apparent misunderstanding on my comments on windfalls earlier on , erm it has been suggested that we we 're tightening down on windfalls , was the quote actually used , erm , there is no intention in the local plan to er ignore the er windfalls , to actually deal with them in a different way than had happened in the past , clearly if sites come forward which are windfalls which are suitable in environmental terms then the City Council will give , as P B G one requires , the appropriate consideration to those applications , what I was merely saying this morning was the the likelihood of such windfalls coming forward , and the scale was clearly going to be substantially less than had occurred in the past , and the the figure of eighty a eighty a year , which was for a five year period , which was quoted to me , erm clearly would not be representative of my expectation of the future . |
| 9 | See how there are shells exploding almost on the same spot in that field over there . ’ |
| 10 | These reflections on the mediating role of authoritative directives and of rules generally explain why they are reasons for actions . |