Example sentences of "[verb] are [prep] [pron] " 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 | ‘ His timing of runs and his instinct for where to run and when to shoot are within him . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The explicit arguments of which I know are to my mind hopeless . |
| 9 | The conclusions which historians draw are in themselves controversial . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The questions that appear not to have been officially asked are to what extent will the projected gains accrue to areas already experiencing relative prosperity ; to what extent will these gains involve reductions in prosperity in underdeveloped/unfavoured regions and whether a transfer of some 4 per cent of the " net " gains is sufficient to compensate for such losses . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Although the records a general practitioner makes are for his own personal use , we accept this opening . |
| 14 | So the pictures you see are like it sometimes happens . |
| 15 | Victory : The only valuables the Vampire and his minion have are on their persons ( see their profiles ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |