Example sentences of "[verb] are [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 However Di was said to be furious about the tapes , which a book says are of her voice .
3 And sadly , many of the people it kills are in their middle years .
4 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 .
5 But the petty snobbery and priggishness of which it is sometimes accused are in my view much less serious ( and in any case demonstrably declining ) than are two tendencies : the first , to make the curriculum and the public examination system a closed circuit ; the second , to be increasingly concerned with training — in other words , to think of its pupil-product more and more as an instrument rather than as an end .
6 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 .
7 The explicit arguments of which I know are to my mind hopeless .
8 We want to make the most of our membership , and create the sort of institutions and rules which we believe are in our best interests .
9 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 .
10 ‘ Although the records a general practitioner makes are for his own personal use , we accept this opening .
11 Victory : The only valuables the Vampire and his minion have are on their persons ( see their profiles ) .
12 Thus we need to be especially careful what we do with young horses so that the habits they establish are in their interests and not to their detriment .
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