Example sentences of "are [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , that 's where they that 's where they are in n it , round there . |
| 2 | To permit things to proceed as they are is to invite further mass emigration , further disorder , and deeper isolation of East Germany among its increasingly notional ‘ fraternal socialist allies ’ . |
| 3 | How accurate such figures are is always open to question , though . |
| 4 | The idea that they are is not supported by our immediate experience . |
| 5 | The most fundamental of these is that need , and not ability to pay , is and will remain the basis on which are is offered to all by the NHS . |
| 6 | What her own immediate sorrows are is not stated . |
| 7 | There are dozens of attractive bays round the shore ; skerries , underwater rocky outcrops , lie scattered throughout its six-mile length ; knowing where they are is all important . |
| 8 | All we are is together |
| 9 | And the child you are is the joy of God , |
| 10 | In the Game of Life not seeing things as they are is like not seeing the ball clearly when playing tennis , or not knowing where the white lines are . |
| 11 | They are is the qualities which Robert Reid , Chief Executive of Shell UK was looking for in new recruits , as he told the North of England Education Conference in the Isle of Man in 1989 . |
| 12 | but what these are is not yet clear . |
| 13 | Exactly who the purchasers are is often not known , not even by the broker . |
| 14 | He identified totally with the Prussian cause , and if to remain exactly as you are is an ambition , then he identified with Junker ambition too . |
| 15 | Who ‘ they ’ are is also not difficult . |
| 16 | AGED 5-7 : Maurice Sendak 's classic Where The Wild Things Are is joined by Shirley Hughes 's gentle morality tale Dogger . |
| 17 | A kind , sympathetic understanding of where people are is the best pastoral attitude we can have . ’ |
| 18 | One of the most flattering things ever said to me was by a teacher who said , ‘ Kinnock , I 'd like to call you lazy but nobody who 's as big a nuisance as you are is lazy . ’ |
| 19 | However because ore is a noun and are is a verb , this error would most likely be spotted by the syntactic analysis , because ore would not fit into the same word position as are in the sentence . |
| 20 | The Annales school attempts to deal with this issue by appealing to the third category identified by Braudel — that of événements ; but to say quite what événements are is no easy task . |
| 21 | Honeywell may have sold its computer business , but its continuing operations , notably the process control systems side of the business , are is never very far from the computer . |
| 22 | Images are presented electrically to an optoelectronic array as a bit pattern which are is then sent in parallel by the device to a laser beam . |
| 23 | But in older elite studies ‘ To know who the power wielding individuals are is thought to be sufficient ; it is a secondary matter to inquire into how they use their power . |
| 24 | Certainly the debate on how close chimpanzees and humans are is far from being closed . |
| 25 | What those consequences are is not too hard to deduce ( see Appendix , A7 ) but , ever conscious of the susceptibilities of my mathematically weaker brethren , I shall content myself with a qualitative discussion . |
| 26 | I 'm glad to come back to you , and wherever you are is my home — my only home . ’ |
| 27 | The one thing that chemists are is reliable . |
| 28 | Although you may be tempted towards a lender by the promise of an initial discount , a far better way of telling how competitive they are is by looking at the history of what borrowers have been charged over the last few years . |
| 29 | The individual experiences of recovery are so varied and the learning opportunities so diverse that there is a general maxim , " Where you are is where you are meant to be " , which implies that one can learn from any experience and put it to good use in recovery . |
| 30 | How cogent these arguments are is questionable . |