Example sentences of "[pron] be [noun] [pron] are " in BNC.

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1 Er I merely want to comment on the erm apparent misunderstanding on my comments on windfalls earlier on , erm it has been suggested that we we 're tightening down on windfalls , was the quote actually used , erm , there is no intention in the local plan to er ignore the er windfalls , to actually deal with them in a different way than had happened in the past , clearly if sites come forward which are windfalls which are suitable in environmental terms then the City Council will give , as P B G one requires , the appropriate consideration to those applications , what I was merely saying this morning was the the likelihood of such windfalls coming forward , and the scale was clearly going to be substantially less than had occurred in the past , and the the figure of eighty a eighty a year , which was for a five year period , which was quoted to me , erm clearly would not be representative of my expectation of the future .
2 Well , there are millions of people who are missing from electoral registers , who are people who are entitled to be registered and the problem is probably the greatest among those who are known as attainers and are qualifying for registration at eighteen for the first time in their lives , the numbers of attainers er qualifying has reduced percentage wise , year by year , especially since the introduction of the poll tax and has not been rectified by the measures that remove the poll tax .
3 I do n't know who 's batteries they are .
4 I wonder if on some distant planet there are creatures who are holding their sides at the prospect of us hurling plates at each other . ’
5 Some of these , no doubt , are very satisfactory to us in our present state of opinion about the constitution of bodies , but there are others which are likely to startle us out of our complacency and perhaps ultimately to drive us out of all the hypotheses in which we have hitherto found refuge into that thoroughly conscious ignorance which is a prelude to every real advance.in knowledge .
6 Then there are others which are just common sense .
7 There are others which are open to anyone who has the ingenuity to think of them .
8 There are others which are implicit in the type of system described here .
9 There are others who are dead , Paul Newman 's son , Mary Tyler Moore 's son — there are a lot of casualties .
10 There are others who are not too worried about that , but who crave a good time .
11 There are others who are n't even dancing : one who has just gone over to the veranda and plunged his hand into the vat of boiling oil so he could offer a hot puri to a child in tears : another who is standing in the midst of the dancers being continually buffeted as they come and go , and hungrily eating a plateful of raw rice grains .
12 Then there are others who are satisfied with superficial information because they feel that if more is revealed then conflict could arise in the family .
13 There are others who are doing research which might lead to erm developments in the communications industry in twenty years from now , or in ten years from now .
14 There are others who are working on erm ways in which banknotes can be , the lifetime of banknotes and library books erm in the paper industry can be erm lengthened , so that our erm library books will last longer .
15 First , there are connections which are established through the arrangement of information within each clause and the way this relates to the arrangement of information in preceding and following clauses and sentences ; these contribute mainly to topic development and maintenance through thematic and information structures .
16 Again , the skill of writing is often taken for granted , yet there are adults who are handicapped because they can not write their name .
17 As well as colleges who offer a distance learning route , with college support , there are colleges who are offering more structured combinations of self-study and college support to meet individual and industry demand .
18 But , once again , let me be on the positive side because I mean there 's no doubt about it there are firms which are doing extremely well in spite of recession at the moment , and they are training people as well , but they 're not training in numbers we really need when we go across the patch as a whole .
19 In certain areas , particularly on islands and in places where there are species which are not at all adapted to cope with cats as predators ( and that includes the whole of Australia ) , there have been dramatic adverse effects on populations of a variety of species of small animals because cats are allowed to roam around .
20 If there are contracts which are essential to the conduct of the business , the purchaser should make obtaining consent to assign or novate these a condition precedent .
21 There are managers who are not highly literate in any case and who do n't know how to put a report together .
22 And the second point I make is that if there are fools who are doing it wrongly then some of you ought to be doing it correctly .
23 In some schools , particularly in urban areas , there are teachers who are not teaching or are teaching very few hours , while in others teachers are coping with very large classes .
24 I do n't think for one minute that there are teachers who are drunk in charge of children in the classroom .
25 some some extra layers on this , I mean I think that 's very valid and the extra layers include er one , the fact that since then there have been a number of royals who have divorced and so it is not unique for royals to be divorced and the Church of England has not jumped up and down about the fact that there are royals who are divorced particularly given that the , you know the Church of England are opposed to divorce .
26 On the one hand , there are scientists who are only too willing to call a spade a pre-spade .
27 There are writers who are such , but not Pound , despite all the vomit of his conclusions .
28 The result , both in some sectors where there are producers who are purely home-based and others who are foreign-based , and in whole states , is a political tug-of-war to define the ‘ cow ’ according to either the stay-at-home or to the go-abroad interests .
29 On the other side there are things which are now in a form which is entirely the result of the Fall .
30 What it does is it means that there is a proper look each year at the finances of each individual firm er and er if there are things which are wrong , they are reported straight away and that really I think is the lesser of all of this with B C C I , er that er where things are not all they should be that they are dealt with and they are reported quickly and these orders , Madam Deputy Speaker , go a long way to helping to ensure that and for that reason I believe the house should warmly welcome them .
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