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 .
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