Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [verb] are " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But despite enthusiasm and hard work , disappointment and disillusion are the main reward . |
| 3 | Search and replace are two very useful facilities found on the majority of word-processors . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Sports : Swimming at the small lido , tennis and riding are also available . |
| 11 | Groping , verbal abuse and pawing are among the daily humiliations that nurses face , says the study by Sarah Finnis and Ian Robbins . |
| 12 | To my mind the yard , foot and inch are as antiquated as the rod , pole and perch . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | More enamel is rasped off the upper outside edges than the lower inside edges because the bit and tack are likely to rub here . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | The technician 's cleaning , careful feeding and replacing are often translated by staff as the management 's concern for their welfare . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Gambling and stargazing are just two of the sins listed in his updated version of the Ten Commandments . |
| 20 | And he again attacked barracking : ‘ Bad language , gambling and barracking are the chief evils of the game . |
| 21 | It follows from this that signifier and signified are effectively inseparable , like the two sides of a single sheet of paper . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Duplication and bickering are endemic . |
| 26 | As discussed in section 6.3.3 , salinisation and waterlogging are processes of environmental degradation associated with irrigation . |
| 27 | Some 12 per cent of the world 's cultivated land is irrigated , of which more than half is affected to some extent by these problems which inevitably lead to a reduction in crop productivity , the very factor that such schemes were established to increase salinisation and waterlogging are particularly significant in arid and semiarid regions where irrigation is necessary for agriculture , and while they are important in developed nations , they are fast becoming major environmental problems in many developing nations . |
| 28 | In Pakistan , salinisation and waterlogging are particularly acute in the Indus Valley where irrigation has been practised since 5 kyr BP ; currently some 15 x 10 6 ha are irrigated by a system that includes the Indus River and its tributaries , 3 storage reservoirs , 19 barrages , 43 canals and 90 000 watercourse systems ( Shanan 1987 ) . |
| 29 | Salinisation and waterlogging are also creating environmental degradation in Iraq where some 50 per cent of the country 's 36 000 km 2 of irrigated land is affected . |
| 30 | Some detailed examples of how this worked in hosiery and tailoring are described by Nancy Grey Osterud and Jenny Morris in the collection of essays , Unequal Opportunities , edited by Angela John , in which Felicity Hunt also analyses how mechanization affected women workers in the printing and bookbinding trades . |