Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Follies are in their way heroic , ’ William Feaver has commented on these grand narratives , aligning them with the epic paintings by the vainglorious diarist , Benjamin Robert Haydon . |
| 2 | They also insinuate that relatives of the prisoners are on their lists . |
| 3 | In principle it is impossible because skills are by their nature totally integrated and interactive so that they can not meaningfully be separated into independent parts . |
| 4 | THE WHEELY GREAT CONTESTS ARE IN YOUR RED-HOT MIRROR |
| 5 | Workers are off their notional labour supply function , L s , but employers are on their notional labour demand function , L d . |
| 6 | Gosh , what wags The Shamen are with their record ‘ Take Drugs , They 're Great ’ . |
| 7 | Consignments of his nutty bushwackers are on their way to UK gift shops to compete with fir-cones in frocks and teasel mice . |
| 8 | Some cases are beyond our help . |
| 9 | His fingers are in my hair , on my neck , touching and touching me . |
| 10 | My health , I am feeling strong and looking confident on the outside , so you must try and feel it on the inside oh dear the planets are on your side this week for love , needless to say |
| 11 | Bakers are numerous , but their ovens are unlike our own and very defective . |
| 12 | Because teeth are at their sharpest when the horse is four , five and six years old , the mouth is more prone to ulcers . |
| 13 | The signs are in his new budget , which while characterised as ‘ freezing ’ domestic spending , actually pumps huge new sums into basic research ( New Scientist , 3 February , p 290 ) . |
| 14 | Herbs are at their best when freshly picked . |
| 15 | in London , John Nicoll , stressed that many of Yale 's plans are in their early stages but that some texts would undergo revision whilst others would probably be redone completely ; some classics would remain untouched . |
| 16 | Musicians are by their very naming good — media folk are noisy , rackety , flip . |
| 17 | Your blokes are on their way , but there are definitely bits of blood and hair on one of the metal parts of this thing — the truss , the bloke here says . |
| 18 | Few products are without their warts , though , and the JMP-1 is not without its own . |
| 19 | God 's purposes will be fulfilled , but the times are in his hands . |
| 20 | By May and June , courtship rituals are at their peak , with three to five offspring born five weeks later . |
| 21 | Amazingly the wild elephants accept the koonkies even though the catchers are on their backs and despite the fact that the herd is being chased by them . |
| 22 | ( 1980 ) point out that statistical classification methods are by their very nature exploratory data-analysis techniques , dependent on the methods used and on a number of arbitrary definitions , and it is therefore inevitable that the results should be seen as a pioneering first attempt , rather than as a polished final product based on the application of well established proven methods . |
| 23 | I am the sort of man who enjoys dancing , but these steps are outside my ken . |
| 24 | As buckles are amongst my favourite finds this was a good enough reason to choose this spot for a further search . |
| 25 | But the really surprising thing about the research is how similar the two sets of readers are in their tastes . |
| 26 | Bluebeard 's wife , about to be killed by her ferocious husband for disobeying his instructions , desperately plays for time as she knows her brothers are on their way to visit her . |
| 27 | All the animals are in their cages , but they do n't seem to have very much space , and some of them have n't been fed properly for a long time . |
| 28 | But all eyes are on his son Rocky . |
| 29 | Coldstream Guards are on their way to Saudi Arabia ‘ to guard prisoners of war ’ . ) |
| 30 | Other insurers , however , have put a much higher loading on ageing drivers because of evidence which suggests that the risk of accident increases when drivers are in their 60s and over and fail to realise that their faculties are diminishing . |