Example sentences of "are [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These electronic techniques are one-to-many ( or sequentially one-to-many ) in nature . |
| 2 | That between DOCTOR and PATIENT and between DOCTOR and CLINICAL SESSION are one-to-many relationships . |
| 3 | All the signs are that radio is an exciting prospect — the forthcoming deregulation of the industry with associated changes in costs , and an expected boom in advertising revenues , is finally making the City take notice . |
| 4 | But parents and pupils are suspicious of the new exam , and the early indications are that , in many places , AS-levels are being mis-used as trial-run A-levels . |
| 5 | ‘ It would be nice to know where the greenbacks are that will fulfil the Government 's promises , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Latest estimates are that sea levels could rise by about 20 cm by 2030 and by 65 cm by the end of the 21st century . |
| 7 | Like Bacon and Hobbes , whose forthright reactions are that what is really needed is simply the adoption of a correct method , Locke does not immediately follow this traditional course ; but he advances the more circumspect suggestion that we should first stand back and investigate our capacity for knowledge . |
| 8 | The counter-arguments , which would uphold the principle of correspondence , are that breach of that principle is unnecessary when the amplitude of the crime of manslaughter lies beneath murder , and also that the definition of grievous bodily harm includes a number of injuries which are most unlikely to put the victim 's life at risk . |
| 9 | ‘ You are that , so ! ’ he answered with feeling . |
| 10 | The chances are that , if Mr Major gives way to Mr Kinnock in a hung Parliament , Labour will attempt to govern as a minority administration . |
| 11 | ‘ The chances are that , even in that area , your house will be all right , ’ says Jill . |
| 12 | ‘ We are that , ’ Maggie agreed . |
| 13 | The only conditions are that nature should sometimes set up games of Prisoner 's Dilemma , that the shadow of the future should be long , and that the games should be nonzero sum games . |
| 14 | I do n't think they are that type of band anyway . |
| 15 | Three simple rules of thumb are that information should be : capable of being understood , timely and relevant . |
| 16 | But punishing the child , telling him how naughty he is and how disappointed you are that such a big boy is behaving so stupidly , will not solve the problem . |
| 17 | Estimates are that sea levels could rise by as much as 1.65m ( 4½feet ) by the middle of the next century . |
| 18 | Yet the signs are that industry largely turns a blind eye to what appears to a growing problem |
| 19 | All the signs are that , with the tight time-scale , Britain will reach a compromise decision which could be bad for the nation and bad for the future of information technology . |
| 20 | All the indications are that man 's efforts successfully to modify and refine the product of the evolutionary process by the introduction of civilisation , have been almost destroyed by the tangled mass of religious absurdity and rubbish which he has allowed to enter into it , and reduce it to but a tragic travesty of what it should be . |
| 21 | However , the only things which are spelt out are that development can not go on without them , the fact that new skills will be introduced and the fact that incomers might form a catalyst for the rejuvenation of local voluntary groups . |
| 22 | Present guidelines are that , if goods or services covered by an agreement or arrangement or other goods and services perceived by consumers as equivalent do not represent more than 5 per cent of the total market in an area of the EC affected by the agreement and the aggregate turnover of the participants in the respective group does not exceed 200 million ecu ( £130 million ) , EC competition rules will not apply . |
| 23 | Additional hurdles are that company filing requirements are not always complied with and powers to enforce such requirements do not always exist in national law . |
| 24 | Then explain the rules of the game which are that , when a whistle is blown , the children leave their seats to go on a bus ride . |
| 25 | I do not know , but I do know that many homosexuals have not chosen to be homosexual but simply are that way . |
| 26 | They do n't know her name and the chances are that she ai n't that familiar with them . |
| 27 | They are that , while a ‘ top-down ’ view of industrialrrelations might suggest that almost everything has changed — the unions ' political role virtually destroyed , govenment authority decisively asserted , and the balance of power shifted massively towards employers — the view from the shop floor is very different . |
| 28 | The implications of the very sharp fall-off with increasing distance from Kent are that such items were controlled at particular centres which maintained a near monopoly over their supply . |
| 29 | Further factors in any attempt to second-guess the result are that last time round the UDF won this portfolio and that François Léotard , the incumbent at that time , is now aiming higher in ministerial rank . |
| 30 | Granted that the whole of history may have a meaning , a purpose and a direction — and granted , too , the power and fruitfulness of many of Hegel 's ideas — are that purpose and direction so easily uncovered as he suggests ? |