Example sentences of "[noun pl] are [adv] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the main criticisms levelled at US and European transnational corporations in Asia , Africa and Latin America is that their operations are predominantly of the export processing variety , employing low wage workers ( mainly ‘ nimblefingered ’ young women ) in monotonous and often physically debilitating labour , the products of which constitute a small proportion of the value-added of the final commodity . |
| 2 | I think there 's a book-rack up there and I think some of them , the patterns are out of the magazine and they 're just , in a rack , I think . |
| 3 | You will notice incidentally that whereas the enangar relationship can be reciprocal because the paired groups are ordinarily of the same social status , the relationship with the Nambudiri , who are of superior ritual standing , is always asymmetrical . |
| 4 | Once the New Year festivities are out of the way , we expect that sales will pick up significantly and continue to improve as we come into the traditional pre-spring buying season . ’ |
| 5 | If the Revenue accept that the court order or agreement between the parties created a settlement on the ground that the interests of the beneficiaries are not of the same quality as the wife has a right of occupation ( see Booth v Ellard [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 1443 ) Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act , 1992 , s225 provides that the gain accruing to a trustee on the disposal of settled property shall in effect be free from capital gains tax where during the period of ownership the house has been the only or main residence of the person entitled to occupy it under the terms of the settlement . |
| 6 | Information processing models are essentially of the ‘ black box ’ type ; that is to say , although assuming that processes like filtering do have physiological correlates , the models themselves are formulated in purely psychological terms . |
| 7 | These aids are generally of the ‘ try all possible combinations of … ’ variety and therefore demand excessive processing time besides inhibiting the use of common sense — the most valuable of all data analysis tools . |
| 8 | And tomatoes take over the greenhouse once the bedding plants are out of the way , ’ Connie explained . |
| 9 | And he concluded : ‘ I find that the defendants have failed to satisfy me that the dogs are not of the type known as the pit bull terrier . |
| 10 | Well , as you know , dogs are out of the question . |
| 11 | Filters are mostly of the low-pass , high-pass , band-pass or band-stop varieties . |
| 12 | The accountants are ahead of the psychologists in developing ideas such as profit centres applicable to small groups or even to individuals . |
| 13 | All the rest of the Norwegian types are now considered extinct as separate breeds or are rare : 98 per cent of the country 's cattle are now of the Norwegian Red type , which can be solid red or red with some white . |
| 14 | Results suggest that melt residence times beneath basaltic volcanoes are only of the order of tens of years , and stored melt volumes are consequently small ( 1 km 3 or less ) . |
| 15 | Eight changes are out of the question for Lord 's next Thursday but England must do something to stop the rot before all hope of regaining the Ashes disappears for another two years . |
| 16 | Eight changes are out of the question for Lord 's next Thursday but England must do something to stop the rot before all hope of regaining the Ashes disappears for another two years . |
| 17 | And now all the serious things are out of the way , it 's time for a little fun . ’ |
| 18 | Children often want to buy their dads something special on Father 's Day , but often find most things are out of the range of their pocket money . |
| 19 | Fifty-eight per cent of all British households are not of the nuclear family type according to 1966 data , and one in twenty of all households is a single-parent family . |
| 20 | Tales are usually of the past , but they can be of the future too . |
| 21 | ‘ They just want to tell us which parts of their bodies are out of the Levi 's at any one time . ’ |
| 22 | That question was thought to have been partially settled by the House of Lords in United Scientific Holdings Ltd v Burnley BC [ 1978 ] AC 904 where it was held that prima facie time limits are not of the essence , with the result that if a time limit is missed the review can still take place . |
| 23 | On the whole the girls are ahead of the boys , so this is a change that occurs in the teens . |
| 24 | And so we 've got to desire to have our broken relationship with God restored , you see we need to receive what God offers in Christ , the fact that Christ died for our sins does not mean a thing to us until we say yes I accept it for me , I believe you died for me , I receive it , I 'm linked into it , you see your house can be , let me give you a very simple illustration , your house is linked up with er Eastern Electricity and there is so many er I du n no what , what the what it is , but there is the power there , the there are , there are kilo watts of power on tap in your home , but in the winter you 're cold , when it gets dark outside , it 's dark inside the cooker , the electric cooker does n't work , the fridge is not operating the food is going rotten , you ca n't watch a programme on television , why , because you have n't plugged into the source of the power , it 's as simple as that , you ca n't blame the Electricity Board , it 's not Eastern Electricity 's fault it 's your fault because all the plugs are out of the sockets and it does n't matter what the Electricity Board does short of blowing up your house , they can do nothing for you and it does n't matter what God has done in Christ until we as it were to also plug in , it does n't mean a thing to us , but the moment we link in , that 's the change , the lights come on , there 's , there 's heat there , the stove works , the , the radio , the television , the record player , they 're all operating , the freezer 's working , the situation has changed , we needs to receive what God offers us in Christ |
| 25 | Once the Budget debates are out of the way the Government may simply clear the Commons of all other business and concentrate on Maastricht day by day , night by night , until the Bill is through . |
| 26 | It 's only a matter of hanging on until the Jacobites are out of the way . ’ |
| 27 | Now that the very first crops are out of the way , most crops would appear to be over the 6.25/ha ( 2.5t/acre ) mark . |
| 28 | Social circumstances have changed since 1975 , but it is probably still true that many women are out of the employment market in their 20s and early 30s due to family commitments so that if the facts happened again , the result may well be the same . |
| 29 | The text tools are n't of the usual bold and italic — they affect how you put text onto the page . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , I 'm afraid photographs are out of the question now , ’ Merrill said firmly . |