Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [am/are] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 While the TNCs from the United States no longer dominate these sectors as they once did , they are still the leaders in a wide variety of fields and even when they are not the leaders it tends to be ‘ American ’ cultural products or local adaptations of them that are on offer .
2 You will see and hear and know all kinds of things about them that are of a private and personal nature .
3 Old paintings that have gold or silver in them and are on gesso ground are often found with the gold leaf or gilding scraped off down to the ground and the exposed gesso painted .
4 They usually say to the old love about the new , ‘ I love you but am in love with her , ’ meaning that their nature is divided : their protective and uxorious souls reach out for the old love : their sexuality towards the new .
5 He is willing to extend his generosity to people who mean something to him or are of the same religion .
6 Their Lordships have no doubt that he was right to do so , for although it is obvious that a judge of subordinate jurisdiction has no power to make an order which directly governs the proceedings which not only are not before him but are in progress in a court of superior jurisdiction , the proposition that , when deciding what course to take as regards the furthering of the proceedings which are before him , he is forced to ignore the other proceedings entirely , is in their Lordships ' opinion quite unsustainable .
7 Oh , geniuses inspired in all the arts , who draw from things only such elements of them as are to be shown to the mind !
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