Example sentences of "are a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will also be asked to sign a Certificate of Deduction of Tax once a year confirming that you are a UK taxpayer . |
| 2 | Likewise , if you wished to make a single gift to ACET of less than £600 then — assuming that you are a taxpayer — you can enable ACET to get the benefit of tax relief by the same Deposited Covenant arrangement . |
| 3 | We are a national charity , founded in 1988 , dedicated to providing care at home for men , women and children with AIDS/HIV related illnesses . |
| 4 | Hers is the head upon which all ‘ ends of the world are come ’ , and the eyelids are a little weary . |
| 5 | In Europe , classical times are a beginning for historians , but not for archaeologists . |
| 6 | Surveys of art on geographical lines are a commonplace of policy for publishers . |
| 7 | The grand form offered a scale of more or less assimilation to the form hidden in the wood , the surface a scale of textures , on both of which the sculptors played , and they are a source of specific qualities of the genre . |
| 8 | Monographs are a main source of considered art critical writing . |
| 9 | Sculptures in cities are a part of cultural history , and can be the symbols by which the cities are known or remembered . |
| 10 | There are a number of other ways in which the work could |
| 11 | The common characteristic is the happy acceptance of whatever comes to mind … paintings are a stimulus to pleasant experience . ’ |
| 12 | They are a reality , whereas the guerrillas are only a dream — phantasmagorical . |
| 13 | But they are a reality which Naipaul treats in such a way that they , too , can at times seem phantasmagorical . |
| 14 | At the same time , these hardships are a focus of his attention . |
| 15 | His own vicissitudes in love are a feature of the story he tells , as is his attempt to understand his disconcerting brother and to produce reflections on the meaning of it all . |
| 16 | These two people had enacted what we have long been accustomed to think of as a romantic programme , whereby love and death converge , and dying young is the thing to do , whereby other people , and common life , are a thing to be escaped from , and a tension develops between the duty to a partner and a cultivation of the self , between the dictates of an amour fou and an amour de soi . |
| 17 | The Zuckerman books are a medley of differences and affinities between what we are able to infer about Roth 's life and what he has made of it in art . |
| 18 | There are a host of audition pieces to be derived from the soliloquies and monologues , many of which are well tried favourites , and almost any selection will be reasonably well known . |
| 19 | There are plenty of good coaches about just as there are a multitude of nice misguided types who seek to portray themselves through other people over and over again . |
| 20 | You are a thousand times a properer man |
| 21 | Auditions are a painful necessity of life and not a fair judgement on your career but you have to go through them . |
| 22 | Also cosmopolitan in outlook are a variety of traditional professions , particularly university lecturers . |
| 23 | Apart from basic agreements on the necessity for law and order for survival purposes , an issue which will be treated later in the chapter , there are a number of similarities which should be mentioned . |
| 24 | The annual meetings of the churches ' central bodies are a forum for religious political debate and have been known to express tensions between the values of the majority Northern and minority Southern protestants . |
| 25 | The slogan of blinkered professors and dull art critics , who , as always , are a couple of hundred years out of date . |
| 26 | Masterpieces are a lie . |
| 27 | However , I have now been through the notebook you left with me and there are a few things I wish . |
| 28 | Electric pumps , either of the simple free flow type or the metered pump which delivers exact half pints , are a perfectly acceptable method of serving cask beer but they can be confused with the pressurised founts used to dispense keg beers . |
| 29 | Indeed such is the pressure for adequate car parking that there are a surprising number of cases where brewing companies have applied for permission to demolish not only outbuildings but adjacent cottages , some of them listed … ’ |
| 30 | Some argue that cheap imports are a waste of money — others say widely differing prices are being charged for exactly the same product and that suppliers which criticise imported cutlery often stock it themselves . |