Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] are [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the notion is intended to emphasise are those issues to do with the how and the why of sociology 's empirical reference . |
| 2 | The only appeals against sentence that the Court of Appeal gets to hear are those imposed by the Crown Court which almost certainly operates a harsher tariff than does the magistrates ' court . |
| 3 | The relational variety is the most important , and the relations that typically get expressed are those between : ( i ) speaker and referent ( e.g. referent honorifics ) ( ii ) speaker and addressee ( e.g. addressee honorifics ) ( iii ) speaker and bystander ( e.g. bystander or audience honorifics ) ( iv ) speaker and setting ( e.g. formality levels ) We can talk of honorifics just where the relation in ( i ) -(iii) concerns relative rank or respect ; but there are many other qualities of relationship that may be grammaticalized , e.g. kinship relations , totemic relations , clan membership , etc. , as made available by the relevant social system . |
| 4 | At 82 , the few people one might wish to see are all dead . |
| 5 | What we do have are some relatively scanty observations of the surface movements over the tropical Pacific based on volunteer observers on merchant ships . |
| 6 | ‘ All I 've got are these , ’ she said , waving one ringed hand towards a plate of Bakewell tarts . |
| 7 | ‘ If you really want coffee then all we 've got are those buns or sweets . ’ |
| 8 | The paths we 've chosen are all recognised long-distance routes and some are waymarked for their entire length . |
| 9 | I should , however , make it clear that the matters to which I have referred are more than sufficient on their own to justify outright rejection . |
| 10 | In terms of a common form of theism , we have suggested that those world religions we have examined are all fundamentally monotheistic — they believe in one God . |
| 11 | The kind of correlations we have seen are those shown by the ‘ Z sources ’ when on the horizontal branch of the X-ray colour-intensity diagram . |
| 12 | The blissfully peaceful hotels we have selected are all on Mahe Island and well situated for the beautiful beaches . |
| 13 | The evolutionary explanations I have used are all couched in terms of the benefit for the individual . |
| 14 | It follows that the remedies we have discussed are those which the buyer has against the seller . |
| 15 | What the sociobiologists have identified are some underlying relationships and latent forms of human behaviour . |
| 16 | Many inscriptions on monuments that were previously thought to be purely calendrical are now known to commemorate specific events of historical significance , but the only three Maya books that have survived are all devoted to astronomy . |