Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [verb] are " in BNC.
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| 1 | The track along Rhossili Down 's ridge top was rough and rocky , with a wild west sort of feel to it as a few hardy-looking cattle wandered about at will on the humped and pitted pastures to the right , which my map indicated are the remains of neolithic burial chambers . |
| 2 | Although history is not primarily a vocational subject , the skills of analysis and writing which its study develops are much in demand . |
| 3 | Smaller groups called Quality Improvement Teams are undertaking this work and some of their initial finds are thought provoking indeed . |
| 4 | The principles on which partitioning depends are related to change of ‘ setting ’ ( time or place ) and ‘ theme ’ ( the person or thing talked about ) , in narrative discourse , at least . |
| 5 | It is left as a useful exercise for the reader to show that if L 1 and C 1 represent the inductances and capacitances in the parallel resonant series arms , while L 2 and C 2 represent the corresponding quantities in the series resonant parallel arms , and the critical pulsatances between which attenuation occurs are given by |
| 6 | It is with some reluctance that I have to strongly disagree with one of my fellow presidents , but some of the impressions that her article creates are very misleading and , in some cases , offensive . |
| 7 | There is talk , still unconfirmed but reasonable enough , that Sparc cloners anxious to finally turn their allegiance to profit are pushing for the port . |
| 8 | These schools , given a far from warm reception when first proposed , are to be funded in a new way , are to fall altogether outside Local Authority control , and as their name implies are to be devoted primarily to preparing their pupils for a career in industry . |
| 9 | Scientifically known as the aurora borealis , the lights , as their name suggests are normally only seen in very northern areas . |
| 10 | * Since , weight for weight , the strengths of commercial steel and timber are comparable , the total of the burdens supported by wood may well be greater than those supported by steel , though no doubt many of the loads which steel carries are the more spectacular . |
| 11 | If it is to be a Christology , it must also concern Christ 's person — whereupon all the problems which Christology entails are again present . |
| 12 | They continued to evolve with undiminished vigour through the Tertiary , and their fossil remains are nowhere more abundant than in the ‘ crags ’ of later Tertiary age . |
| 13 | There , however , the spontaneous currents which reason navigates are not inclinations but those analogizing processes already discussed briefly in an earlier chapter , with particular reference to simulation . |
| 14 | The ripples of family disturbance which unemployment brings are spread widely too amongst those who do not move away from their home area . |
| 15 | He goes on to make the point that the Scots possessed advanced tastes and understanding in literature , with a Latin poetry that ‘ would have done honour to any nation ’ , but then ponders aloud — no wonder he offended them so — why ‘ men thus ingenious and inquisitive were content to live in total ignorance of the trades by which human wants are supplied , and to supply them by the grossest means . |
| 16 | However , the lowest values of the Reynolds number ( around 2 × 103 ) at which transition occurs are well below the minimum value ( a little above 104 ) at which theory indicates the existence of an unstable region . |
| 17 | It is often stated that young children are in the concrete operational stage of development and that their experience of the adult world and their ability to understand are restricted . |
| 18 | The different levels at which power operates are therefore crucial to one 's definitions of the problem of regionalism and to one 's mode of explanation . |
| 19 | Doctors who want to devote much of their time to research are undervalued . |
| 20 | Victory : The only valuables the Vampire and his minion have are on their persons ( see their profiles ) . |
| 21 | Never ask or expect the patient to perform actions that his physiotherapist considers are too hard for him . |
| 22 | The immediate sense-experiences with which his method begins are not part of a systematic record , and are very quickly left behind as one digs below their surface . |
| 23 | Aubrey 's personality and in particular his approach to command are accounted for reasonably and naturally . |
| 24 | It authorises the carrying on of the licence-holder 's business temporarily in other premises , whilst the premises to which his licence applies are being reconstructed . |
| 25 | So the formidable and fearless Ms Keays did what safe stock are not meant to do . |
| 26 | But new questions about the relations of language and what language represents are of great importance to our understanding of Renaissance culture . |
| 27 | Having your hair done are you then ? |
| 28 | The ten rooms our designer created are only suggestions , of course . |