Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] are [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight of the properties Citalia has secured are in an old farmhouse on the estate about two miles away from the castle . |
| 2 | The kind of songs I sit there and enjoy singing are like ‘ Eternal Flame ’ , songs that have rich melodies . ’ |
| 3 | The officials in charge of it still can not find out exactly how much some of the firms they would like to sell are worth — or indeed , says one , how many firms the state actually owns . |
| 4 | Nevertheless the rough tone , irregular rhythms and ‘ dirty ’ intonation that most blues singers would have used are for the most part conspicuously absent in Elvis 's performance ; his tone is full , rich and well produced , his intonation is precise , stable and ‘ correct ’ , the notes are sustained and held right through , and the phrasing is legato . |
| 5 | The pygmies of Central Africa can not find enough food in the Zaire forests and , indeed , there seems to be no unambiguous ethnographic account of any people living solely off forest products and the only tropical areas where it is believed that such people might have lived are in central Malesia . |
| 6 | That is not say that those whom it is hoped to benefit are in any sense undemanding or unsophisticated . |
| 7 | The few first letter errors which do occur are in words with silent consonants , for example know and write . |
| 8 | The most obvious places where this is likely to have happened are along the flanks of the Mid-North Sea and Ringkøping-Fyn Highs , around late Cretaceous inversion features such as the Texel-IJsselmeer High ( van Adrichem-Boogaert and Burgers 1983 ) , and in areas where the Zechstein is presently at outcrop such as N.E. England . |
| 9 | The first items that I wish to acknowledge are from Mr Norman Wheeler of Stokesay . |
| 10 | Stubbs points out , for instance , that many of the confusions for children acquiring literacy arise because these children are not yet familiar with some of the purposes for which writing is used and the conventions through which these purposes are articulated in their culture : ‘ many of its functions are often so specialised and particular ’ that they are ‘ mostly quite beyond children 's experience ’ and ‘ many of the situations which conventionally require writing are of a fairly specialised and restricted kind ’ ( ibid. p. 108 ) . |
| 11 | IN THE course of our lives , events take place , with which the passage of time , we come to realise are like milestones ; they have pointed us in a new direction , often posing a challenge which in the providence of God , when accepted , leads us deeper into his life and service . |
| 12 | Examples of centurial stones or distance slabs with which different legionary detachments marked sections they had constructed are to be seen in the National Museum of Antiquities in Edinburgh and the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow . |
| 13 | The two names she had mentioned are of course rhyming slang for ‘ pissed ’ , but nothing in Rebecca Kraemer 's innocent little face betrayed whether or not she was aware of this . |
| 14 | The scientific and engineering skills which we have developed are at the cutting edge of nuclear technology , and through subsequent diversification , are improving the competitive position of customers in over 70 countries and more than 2000 organisations worldwide . |
| 15 | And the majority of those have objected are in the area of that two miles . |
| 16 | ‘ Those that I have seen are of the same basic stock , ’ he said at last . |
| 17 | ‘ Some of the worst designs I have seen are by architects for themselves . ’ |
| 18 | The broken states I have named are in a condition of near ruin . |
| 19 | I mean , in the parish over the erm what five to ten years , the things that have grown are in their own , the , various other support groups and so on . |
| 20 | ‘ The only ones she 's got are in America . ’ |
| 21 | The enthusiasm and excitement that TECs have generated are without parallel in our past . |
| 22 | Since the trends that I have observed are at work in most other fields of business activity it seems unlikely that the book trade will be able to avoid them . |
| 23 | That is because they understand that the decisions that we have taken are in the interests of British industry , British commerce and jobs for British workers . |
| 24 | Employees who refuse to move are in breach of contract and so , subject to the statutory test of reasonableness , a dismissal is likely to be fair . |
| 25 | It replaced square and rectangular section spar material sometime in the 1930s , and the only changes that have arisen are in the timber used and the sizes . |
| 26 | Those we have chosen are in the ‘ Noci ’ farmhouse and most have lovely old brick floors , rafted ceilings and scenes of idyllic peace from their windows . |