Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] are " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some principles of association that emerge are that solitary hunters feed on prey they can subdue individually which they kill suddenly after a stealthy approach . |
| 2 | The child 's doing , the child 's active social experience and his own thinking and talking are the chief means of his education … words can not be substituted for things . |
| 3 | But despite enthusiasm and hard work , disappointment and disillusion are the main reward . |
| 4 | Search and replace are two very useful facilities found on the majority of word-processors . |
| 5 | If you can get the crop off the ground and impervious to weather quickly , it hardly matters if the subsequent carting and storing are laborious — wait until you have guests to help . |
| 6 | The research will investigate how the mechanisms of pre-verbal communication based on comprehension and production of gaze and pointing are related to each other and how they change between 6 and 18 months of age . |
| 7 | Mining and quarrying are still the most dangerous industries to work in , and in 1985 mining deaths and major industries were over five times the rate for other industries , including construction . |
| 8 | However , as with their metal counterparts , the false patinas on stone may look convincing but when viewed under high magnification and analysed are petrologically and chemically quite distinct . |
| 9 | although there are some widespread non-reciprocal speaking and listening situations ( such as radio , television , public address systems and lectures ) , the processes of listening and speaking are primarily reciprocal and integrated . |
| 10 | When all who direct , manage , control , teach , undertake research , plan and administer are ‘ bureaucrats ’ in the sense of being state functionaries , it is difficult to identify the class element in what is a large and heterogeneous stratum containing different and conflicting interests , such as those between the party and the scientific and technical intelligentsia , or the higher levels of state administration and the management of economic institutions . |
| 11 | Sports : Swimming at the small lido , tennis and riding are also available . |
| 12 | Groping , verbal abuse and pawing are among the daily humiliations that nurses face , says the study by Sarah Finnis and Ian Robbins . |
| 13 | that the premises in respect of which the grant was made have been completed in accordance with the plan thereof lodged with the board , or ( b ) that the premises have been completed and that such deviations from the said plan as exist are of minor importance and have not materially altered the character of the premises or the facilities for the supply of alcoholic liquor thereat . |
| 14 | To my mind the yard , foot and inch are as antiquated as the rod , pole and perch . ’ |
| 15 | To import a light aircraft from the USA may not be overly difficult , but by the time the cost of the U.S. Export Certificate , British C of A , CAA registration and inspection and ferrying are added up , there is probably little change out of £6,000 . |
| 16 | More enamel is rasped off the upper outside edges than the lower inside edges because the bit and tack are likely to rub here . |
| 17 | SIMON WILLIAMS enters their world , where style , glamour , sexiness and tack are kings , and hears a glorious noise not unlike The Smiths beamed back to 1973 . |
| 18 | Is he satisfied that the new system encourages local authorities to provide houses — rented accommodation — for those people and that the numbers that are dependent on board and lodging are decreasing ? |
| 19 | The technician 's cleaning , careful feeding and replacing are often translated by staff as the management 's concern for their welfare . |
| 20 | Bits of both Open Look and Motif are already in there — and some features will be handled as objects — although Cunningham admits it is unlikely to make it up to the XT intrinsics level , on top of which the various interface look and feels are created . |
| 21 | It would be a fitting coincidence if United are in a position to win the title at West Ham next Wednesday night . |
| 22 | So you think that the number of instances where it 's your s your security that fails are really relatively small when people get hold of ex-directory numbers . |
| 23 | There was no comfort in that result , a vote against industrial action , even though it confirmed the suspicion that gone are the old ways of fighting the class war that we 've all been raised on and still have the power to excite me . |
| 24 | Gambling and stargazing are just two of the sins listed in his updated version of the Ten Commandments . |
| 25 | And he again attacked barracking : ‘ Bad language , gambling and barracking are the chief evils of the game . |
| 26 | It follows from this that signifier and signified are effectively inseparable , like the two sides of a single sheet of paper . |
| 27 | Comparison of the modal use of these two verbs with what occurs in affirmative contexts shows that when need and dare are positively asserted , the needing and daring are necessarily felt to represent before- positions relative to the infinitive 's event . |
| 28 | When , however , need and dare are used non-assertively , it is possible for the speaker to feel that there is nothing real ( no real need or daring ) situated in time to constitute a before-position in relation to the event evoked by the infinitive , and so to use the bare infinitive after these verbs as with the modals . |
| 29 | Poverty and overcrowding are characteristic of the greater part of the Canning Town and Silvertown areas , which make up what is perhaps the largest part of unbroken depression in East London . |
| 30 | Duplication and bickering are endemic . |