Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] are [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He puts great emphasis on the difficulties of prediction , and urges that where there are rules to which people do in fact adhere for the most part , and which help maintain the social stability required for any kind of good to flourish , we are likely to come nearest to doing what is objectively right ( in terms of its actual consequences ) if we also stick to the rules , but that where the rules , however useful they would be if generally obeyed , are widely flouted we should make a direct judgement of what will have the best consequences . |
| 2 | Well the surface weather observer will take temperature , pressure , humidity , erm the wind speed and direction , he will study visibility , he will see whether it 's raining or there are showers in his vicinity , erm study the amount of cloud , the type of cloud above him as he can see it , erm all these details will feed in onto a routine hourly observation . |
| 3 | Give us the words to share the good news over all the earth , today and in the coming weeks ; change our lives so that other people can see that You are Lord of our lives , and may be attracted to You . |
| 4 | All of us , no matter how irresolute we are , like to think that we reign supreme in our own consciousness , that we are masters of what our minds accept or reject … |
| 5 | ‘ In the circumstances , I think we will follow you , but let me remind you that we are envoys of His Gracious Majesty King Henry VIII of England . ’ |
| 6 | Although there are differences between them , each addresses in its own way the range of concerns sketched in this Introduction . |
| 7 | Britain has little to fear because although there are deficiencies in our law it is much better than most . |
| 8 | Where the technique was first practised is unknown , although it is traditionally thought to be of Chinese origin , although there are accounts of it being used in India around 550 BC . |
| 9 | The attractants appear to change geographically and seasonally , while it is perhaps the blending of compounds that restricts the number of bee species attracted , although there are overlaps between them and the bees ' choices also vary geographically and seasonally . |
| 10 | No doubt it will very quickly become apparent to the reader that there are differences in their philosophical assumptions that may not be reconcilable . |
| 11 | Perhaps the strongest is that there are species in which some females reproduce sexually , and others by parthenogenesis : if there was not a short-term advantage to sex , the parthenogenetic females would long ago have replaced the sexual ones . |
| 12 | It will no doubt have its critics and I would have to admit that there are elements of it I am not happy about . |
| 13 | In the next section we will argue that there are circumstances under which people selectively pay attention to certain kinds of information in a mental model , even though other information in the model might be used to interpret the current sentence . |
| 14 | But it seems safe to say that there are circumstances in which litost and glasnost can be recognised as enemies , and that this enmity can be recognised in the novel Life is elsewhere . |
| 15 | All that Montefiore 's example shows is that there are circumstances in which it is unfair to act neutrally , where there are not even prima facie reasons to be neutral . |
| 16 | ‘ We do not think it is possible to deny that there are circumstances in which individuals may justifiably choose to enter into a homosexual relationship ... [ although ] such a relationship could not be regarded as the moral or social equivalent of marriage . ' |
| 17 | It sets out to show that there are comics for everyone from political exposes to baroque fantasies , from toilet humour to cartoon confessionals . |
| 18 | Now , you , you 're , that 's a subjective feeling , you do n't actually know that there are neurones in your blood sugar level , but you , you certainly know when you need something to eat and it , it 's a kind of subjective feeling and it 's not farfetched in the least to claim that our genes have rigged our brain in that way to do that because obviously we 'd like to have more reproductive success if you know when you 're hungry than when you do n't and it may be that a lot of , in a lot of other ways genes affect our , our behaviour through similar erm effects , that is subjective feelings we have , often of an emotional nature to make us want to do certain things and an an and dislike doing others , and it may be that we , we 're really kind of lumbered with that . |
| 19 | There is an increasing awareness that there are limitations on what can be assessed by formal written tests or examinations . |
| 20 | A common observation has been that there are soils in which some diseases never seem to occur and it is presumed that microorganisms that are antagonistic to pathogens naturally occur in these ‘ suppressive soils ’ . |
| 21 | At the same time , research evidence about how people view this in practice conveys a sense of boundaries : that there are limits to what one can reasonably expect relatives to do , and to what a person would want to rely on relatives for . |
| 22 | Government on these terms is tolerable if the party in power recognises that there are limits to what it is entitled to do . ’ |
| 23 | This belief , expressed in the legal doctrine of novus actus interruptus , is that a person is responsible for his own actions , and others are not responsible even if they induced his action by suggesting that there are reasons for it , or by behaving in ways which led him to form such a belief . |
| 24 | But , yeah , I take your analogy that there are plays in which time , or the gods , or God sort things out . |
| 25 | First , that there are cases in which for no apparent reason legacy and trust seem to be used imprecisely . |
| 26 | We remember in particular from that section that there are conditions in which none of the steady state solutions is stable ; we left open the question of what happens then . |
| 27 | She considers whether it is true to claim that there is a sex-related divergence of views , and the possible reasons for any such divergence , and goes on to suggest that there are areas in which women 's views may typically differ from those of men . |
| 28 | Just to know that there are rapists around who could have been tracked down with this method is justification for a database . |
| 29 | Just to know that there are rapists around who could have been tracked down with this method is justification for a database . |
| 30 | He knows too that there are activities in which he is most intelligent when he is most spontaneous , in which to think may even be dangerous ; the ski jumper or the tightrope walker can not afford to hesitate and reflect . |