Example sentences of "[pers pn] are [verb] [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New radiators come in metric sizes , and if the one you are replacing is an old imperial size , go for one fractionally smaller than the original if possible . |
| 2 | And how much more , wrote Harsnet , when the project on which you are engaged is the major project of your life , the project of your life . |
| 3 | You should understand , however , that under the Hire Purchase scheme all you are buying is the car itself . |
| 4 | When the condition you refer to as ‘ the burning ’ surges through your flesh , what you are given is the capacity to step beyond the strictures of the logical universe humans have inflicted upon themselves . |
| 5 | That dress you are wearing is an offence to my eyes . ’ |
| 6 | Well the national account what you are saying is the national account if the work 's for is then responsible for all those accounts that happen to be from the national account manager . |
| 7 | ‘ What you are proposing is an extremely unwise endeavour , ’ said the Thing . |
| 8 | We have tried to make it clear in the law that what we are establishing is a parallel procedure and not an exclusive procedure , so that the other law as it existed , whatever it is , still does exist today , but that here is a prescribed procedure which terminally ill patients may choose to use should they wish to do so . |
| 9 | I will not seek to justify this , any more than I would expect the Tories to justify the three day week , the Suez Crisis or any other element of their sordid history , for what we are discussing is a situation facing thousands of people in this district today , and what we are gon na do to ensure that they have a future . |
| 10 | But we must be sure that what we are seeing is a true feeding roll and not just any surface activity , for bream do frequently appear at the surface when feeding is far from their thoughts . |
| 11 | : ’ Speaking in London almost a year after becoming Chairman of British Coal , Mr. Clarke said — What we are seeing is a sort of energy arms race , with attempts to justify it on the grounds of guaranteeing security , diversity and competition — but in reality , guaranteeing nothing but higher electricity prices , a rapid abandonment of other fuel reserves , and reliance on as yet unproven overseas resources . ' |
| 12 | What we are seeing is the emergence of much more diverse and fluid organisations operating on much smaller local units . |
| 13 | If the mutational jump we are considering is a very large one , the number of possible destinations of that jump is astronomically large . |
| 14 | What we are seeking is a snapshot of the behaviour not an exhaustive record , although , since the method needs to be replicable some standards for recording must be set . |
| 15 | What we are reading is the Book of Patrick Doyle . |
| 16 | The court action we are bringing is the last chance to stop these damaging cuts . |
| 17 | Well okay so so you 're going to you 're going to erm emphasize the er the fact that what we are supplying is a noise tested |
| 18 | What we are withdrawing is the arm's-length valuation of benefit under clause 54(4) where an employer is providing services to the employee at a cost which may be very little . |
| 19 | What we are attempting is a hypothesis in which I answer for him , while you ask me questions . |
| 20 | ‘ Basically what we are offering is an underwater loudspeaker . |
| 21 | One device we are testing is an advanced maschotrometer system with three small maschotrometers coupled together in a series . |
| 22 | In a sense what we are witnessing are the birthpangs of ‘ a European bourgeois state without the usual trappings of bourgeois democracy ’ as 19th century historians described the emergence of the newly united Kaiser 's Germany . |
| 23 | Much of the breakdown of faith we are witnessing is a logical consequence , pure and simple , of the deep deficiency of faith today . |
| 24 | What we are witnessing is the eager consummation that follows a long and passionate seduction . |
| 25 | At the time of the referendum we said to people , ‘ Do not worry — your powers will be OK ; your government is still in charge ; democracy is OK ; all that we are joining is a free-trade area . ’ |
| 26 | For example : I 'm sorry to keep pressing you for an answer but we do need to make a decision if we are to avoid being the last in the market with this product : Is it to be A or B ? ’ |
| 27 | Just because non-human animal memories can be expressed only in behavioural terms , the possibility always arises that what we are measuring is an aspect of the behaviour rather than the memory . |
| 28 | What we are observing is a late stage in the recession of formerly well-established rules . |
| 29 | Another example is the Social Charter , which we are told is a matter for European Community control because of its potential effects on the competitiveness of business . |
| 30 | One of the most crucial features of the model we are describing is the occurrence of feedback . |