Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] are [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Mutations that affect corepressor binding are of two types .
2 ‘ Although the records a general practitioner makes are for his own personal use , we accept this opening .
3 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 .
4 Moreover , the examples Couturier gives are of multiple discrete points of view carefully distinguished within the novels in question ( The Sound and the Fury , Pale Fire ) , whereas the mutable point of view employed in Verbivore is a technique developed out of the possibilities inherent in print , but moving toward the mutability of cybernetic text .
5 Victory : The only valuables the Vampire and his minion have are on their persons ( see their profiles ) .
6 The punchcards in the basic packs which are marked for colour changing are for manual yarn changing , where it is the pattern that is intended to change ; so these wo n't work with the colour changer either .
7 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 .
8 The proliferation of data and the increasing need for multiple datasets by researchers mean that online catalogues , navigation systems to link different catalogues and software for catalogue searching are of critical importance .
9 Oxford ladies kick-off at the university ground in Iffley Road at 2 on Sunday … they 're playing the district line from Ealing … lets hope United are on the right tracks …
10 The battles and skirmishes of middle-class rural boundary disputing are of interest only to their panting protagonists .
11 Appeldorn said the method could even be used to help make silicon chips , adding that the world leaders in diamond machining are in Britain , at Cranfield Precision Engineering .
12 Expansion in the number of users and disk storage supported are on there way .
13 Strategic direction and decision making are about choosing the right road , and they need a high degree of external information .
14 If the advantages of decentralization of decision making are to be preserved , firms must be able to operate within a set of rules for competition that enable them to identify what strategies are likely to attract scrutiny , and what strategies they can pursue without hindrance .
15 However Di was said to be furious about the tapes , which a book says are of her voice .
16 You would probably choose to use materials of this kind because the aspects of the culture featured are of relevance to your students .
17 ( Grand prix car and motorcycle racing are to be exempted .
18 But new questions about the relations of language and what language represents are of great importance to our understanding of Renaissance culture .
19 The differences between schooled and unschooled children that Greenfield 's material suggests are at a less universal and profound level than her descriptions imply .
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