Example sentences of "[noun pl] they are [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where trade unions have joined Compacts they are in a strong position to ensure that young people in Compact schools are fully informed about the advantages of joining and supporting the trade union movement . |
| 2 | Although rhinos have been depicted as rather vicious stampeding animals they are in fact sedentary and often solitary . |
| 3 | Where written records do survive they are as a rule woefully incomplete , and for prehistoric communities they are by definition completely absent . |
| 4 | Alan added : ‘ While our senior managers have combined experience of over 100 years they are aged 40 and under , thus enabling us to offer the most up-to-date knowledge of shipping and air freight requirements . |
| 5 | Being asked how much the foresaid are worth per annum , he says with the pasture belonging to the maintenance of the animals working in the plough teams they are worth per annum £17 . " |
| 6 | If it has rights they are at best analogical ones . |
| 7 | Although ( according to attitudinism ) ethical statements express attitudes rather than beliefs they are in many ways quite comparable to factual statements which express beliefs . |
| 8 | I am sceptical but , if there are such universals they are of a much more abstract structural kind . |
| 9 | What we have to do is decide what kinds of technologies they are to be provided with , how far into the future they are expected to go , and how the whole experiment is to be organised . |
| 10 | In many cases they are in high-status , semi-rural locations . |
| 11 | For the trolley orderlies they are like a quick dash with a rickshaw down a Singapore street . |
| 12 | the fields they are in have masses of grass , are level and have plenty of shelter , and |
| 13 | Although the authors call them letters they are in fact a form of communication we call prayer . |
| 14 | HEALTH AUTHORITIES will be expected to adhere to the ‘ firm ’ budgets they are to be given for patients ' drugs , Kenneth Clarke , Secretary of State for Health , said yesterday . |
| 15 | In many cases they are now wider in scope than the function which gave them birth ; in others they are at least on a par with the sales function . |
| 16 | This trait is not restricted to one variety of style , for we can observe it both in passage [ 3 ] ( " though ( of course ) an undeniably fine infant " ; remorseless twins they are for striding through their human forests , notching as they go " ) ; and in passage [ 7 ] ( " as is not unusual in men of transparent simplicity " ) . |
| 17 | Goggles : Available either as safety spectacles or fully enclosing goggles they are for use where there is the risk of high speed particle shed or fumes that may be injurious to the eyes . |