Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] are " in BNC.
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| 1 | The factory and user presets are called ‘ areas ’ and both areas contain five memory banks , each holding six programs . |
| 2 | Layton put it somewhat differently when he added that ‘ the two great qualities a young writer has are his arrogance and inexperience , ’ and on another occasion he picked out the twin characteristics of ‘ precocity and independence . ’ |
| 3 | He wrote : ‘ To judge by a lot of the stuff written about bands like U2 , you 'd be forgiven for thinking that rock starts are the new Messiahs . |
| 4 | Although history is not primarily a vocational subject , the skills of analysis and writing which its study develops are much in demand . |
| 5 | New Compact Pampers are available from supermarkets , shops and chemists nationwide . |
| 6 | One is North Korea 's declared intention to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) after the demand of the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) to inspect sites which Pyongyang says are non-nuclear . |
| 7 | You know simple language , they wanted to know where he was coming from , but Jesus it says would not say a word in answer to any of those accusations , but then the High Priest says are you the Messiah , the Son of the Blessed God . |
| 8 | try as one might , one ca n't change the group , but , but clearly these are not th the examples that Freud chooses are really big groups where the kind of factors he 's talking about comes through very clearly because y y you can not explain what happens in the Catholic Church or an army . |
| 9 | There is also a far greater chance of tackling the issues the schools feels are important and not having them lost in the large number of demands from outside . |
| 10 | Too late in the year because the seasons Camus celebrates are spring and summer , when even the poorest men walk like gods beneath the heat-soaked sky . |
| 11 | The ones Hodson operates are turbocharged . |
| 12 | ‘ Although the records a general practitioner makes are for his own personal use , we accept this opening . |
| 13 | In times of economic recession when business and commerce have to look closely at their finances , the low costs , top quality facilities and services which Larne provides are even more vital to the economy and to enable Irish industries to compete effectively in Europe . |
| 14 | Is not it true that some documents that the Public Accounts Committee receives are not published , such as the memorandum that the National Audit Office drew up for me on the accountability of United Nations agencies ? |
| 15 | The problems which Bernie represents are most clearly visible against the patterned backdrop of the Union Jack . |
| 16 | ‘ Home knits are best for Baby and such fun to do . ’ |
| 17 | Such a split in self-perception is , I think , more likely to occur in girls than in boys at the time of puberty because the physiological changes which a boy undergoes are likely to be treated as marks of manhood , whereas what happens to a girl is more likely not to be mentioned , although in many ways the signs of her having reached puberty are more obviously visible . |
| 18 | The proprietary AS/400 processes , which IBM says are more resilient , will be supplemented with Posix processes . |
| 19 | It is left as a useful exercise for the reader to show that if L 1 and C 1 represent the inductances and capacitances in the parallel resonant series arms , while L 2 and C 2 represent the corresponding quantities in the series resonant parallel arms , and the critical pulsatances between which attenuation occurs are given by |
| 20 | The continued presence in Damascus of organisations which Washington says are engaged in terrorism was also expected to be discussed as an obstacle to better bilateral ties . |
| 21 | The principles on which partitioning depends are related to change of ‘ setting ’ ( time or place ) and ‘ theme ’ ( the person or thing talked about ) , in narrative discourse , at least . |
| 22 | It could be argued that since children from about the age of eight years can create their own mental images and since , according to Shirley Hughes ( 1983 , unpaged ) ‘ The best pictures any child sees are in its own head ’ , there is little need for pictures in books for older children . |
| 23 | THE FAT Lady Sings are embarking on a lengthy Irish tour next month . |
| 24 | Smaller groups called Quality Improvement Teams are undertaking this work and some of their initial finds are thought provoking indeed . |
| 25 | The types that Belbin identifies are : |
| 26 | While winter lets are available in abundance , the coming of the spring means that tenants occupying these short lets have to move on . |
| 27 | The final items indicating Athenian warlike preparations rather earlier than Thucydides implies are the Athenian decrees moved by Kallias ( ML 58 ) which show that temple treasures in some demes were moved from exposed positions in Attica to the Athenian Acropolis ; the decree is as early as 434 . |
| 28 | Between the farmhouse mob and the purveyors of alcoholic lemonade is a hinterland inhabited by giants such as Dixie of Bristol , who used to travel West Country fairs selling his wares from a thatched Ford Transit van ; and Dunkertons which produces subtle , bright and preservative-free ciders that even the Boy Nigel admits are like the real thing , only better . |
| 29 | Well you know what vol au vents are . |
| 30 | Vol au vents are like pastry . |