Example sentences of "[vb -s] are [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The advantage of this argument is that it allows one to define literature 's relation to reality in a much more positive and coherent way : both literature and the reality which it represents are of the same order and , according to Bakhtin , this order is ideological . |
2 | But new questions about the relations of language and what language represents are of great importance to our understanding of Renaissance culture . |
3 | The seller should of course resist such warranties because of their vagueness , and insist that , if he is to give such a warranty , the purpose should be clearly specified in the contract , with sufficient detail to enable him to be sure that the goods that he supplies are in fact suitable for that purpose . |
4 | Devises are of two kinds only , specific and residuary . |
5 | ‘ You do n't have to tell me , ’ Gaily said , ‘ that all the clothes either of us has are in the bag or on our backs . ’ |
6 | The Tories are , wisely , keeping their boy away from most of the rough stuff — rightly recognising that such strengths as he has are in his niceness — but he has to look like he wants to win sometimes . |
7 | Some of the problems are highly complex and unique in that lives are at stake depending on their successful resolution . |
8 | However Di was said to be furious about the tapes , which a book says are of her voice . |
9 | It welcomes my right hon. Friend the Chancellor 's brilliant Budget for its changes in the uniform business rate , which it says are of enormous help to business , a great deal of assistance to growing firms and just what businesses have requested . |
10 | And sadly , many of the people it kills are in their middle years . |
11 | I got your stock see , I 've got your stock , you 're either gon na shut your case or you 're going to the , you 're going to go to the house or you 're going have to move me from that objection that I 've hit you with , then the objection that you 're comfortable with , now that 's what closes are about , it 's dancing people from one objection to another , let me put you on another objection then , seeing as you 're not too happy with that then |
12 | Lord MacMillan in Perry v Astor ( 1935 ) 19 TC 255 at p289 stated : The Section does not declare that the dispositions with which it deals are to be treated as non-existent in a question between the maker of the disposition and the Inland Revenue . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | He never wears a watch whether racing or training , never records his mileage , and has no idea what his personal bests are over any time or distance . |
15 | The only parties she attends are in a business capacity … ’ |
16 | So long as it maintains the idea that believers talking to unbelievers are like people explaining to the blind what it is like to see , reason may be tolerated . |
17 | From this standpoint , the two contradictions in capitalism which Godelier distinguishes are to be regarded as being equally basic and important . |
18 | The weans are in ma neebors ' van , |
19 | When the weans are in school |
20 | At present , however , it is worth observing that the degree of foregrounding in this passage , and the interpretative process it elicits are of a kind more readily associated with poetry than with prose . |
21 | Curved lasts are for speed , straight ones for stability . |
22 | Therefore , spreads are of little importance for index futures , and this may explain why there have been only three empirical studies of the pricing of spreads in index futures . |
23 | Apart from the language and culture barrier in dealing with the USSR , this airframes are in military zones which are strictly no-go areas — even in post- Coup era ! |
24 | I think it 's wonderful , the strives are to be made in medicine and they should make in all their research into making the people who who are here able to enjoy a good life and fulfilled life |
25 | These schools , given a far from warm reception when first proposed , are to be funded in a new way , are to fall altogether outside Local Authority control , and as their name implies are to be devoted primarily to preparing their pupils for a career in industry . |
26 | By 1991 , those it approves are to be designated National Vocational Qualifications ( NVQ ) , and accorded one of four levels : Basic , Standard , Advanced and Higher . |
27 | Moreover , the examples Couturier gives are of multiple discrete points of view carefully distinguished within the novels in question ( The Sound and the Fury , Pale Fire ) , whereas the mutable point of view employed in Verbivore is a technique developed out of the possibilities inherent in print , but moving toward the mutability of cybernetic text . |
28 | It is only by exerting upward pressure themselves , using whatever means are at their disposal , that workers are able to sustain wage levels and general conditions . |
29 | Dr Anthony Ayles , of the Hermitage Group practice in Edinburgh , is one of several GPs who offer this service but only to patients he considers are at risk from heart disease — those with a close relative who developed coronary problems before 50 , those who smoke , have high blood pressure , are overweight , diabetic or take little exercise . |
30 | It is financed by the film industry , and will only grant certificates to movies which it considers are within the limits of public acceptability . |