Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] are " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does n't matter what creed or colour you are , as long as you are mad ! 16-18 . |
| 2 | So an important strategy for helping the learner is occasionally to list , at the end of the piece or work you are marking , all the errors the pupil has made , writing them correctly and clearly , and to ask him to study them in the way the Basic spelling strategy " B " suggests ( page 11 ) . |
| 3 | You sit on the window seat and feel you are on the river . |
| 4 | , You enter the downwind leg while flying a Bonanza and find you are about 400 metres behind a Piper Tri-Pacer which is flying considerably more slowly than you are . |
| 5 | The two grand old men of Arcueil , and , and the entire cult of French physics that surrounded them are entertainingly dissected through the period when French physics moved from uncompromising support of newtonianism to its near rejection with the wave theory of light . |
| 6 | Members of the gang that kidnapped him are reported to have offered to tell where his remains are , in return for immunity from prosecution . |
| 7 | Make sure the quantity in the can or bottle is the same if you want to find out the units in the can or bottle you are drinking . |
| 8 | As I understand it , Mr Maxwell 's company has approached the Housing Committee and said we are prepared to let these houses be used for homeless families , so it 's a small but significant step in the right direction . |
| 9 | The troughs are realising you have forgotten something you learned right at the beginning , finding out you have been saying ‘ taste ’ instead of ‘ try ’ for six months , falling asleep over vocabulary , believing you are ready to understand speeches without help and discovering you are not , being corrected by another non-native speaker who has been at it the same time as you , and taking an hour to tell a Lada joke . |
| 10 | My family will squeak with outrage when he turns a biologist 's eye on art and on drug abuse and suggests they are status indicators for age-old sexual selection . |
| 11 | Usually there is a section of the report which lists the initiatives taken by the voluntary sector and says they are generally admirable and deserving of continued support . |
| 12 | Reform and strengthen local government , removing unnecessary tiers , restoring councils ' independence and ensuring they are accountable to the people through a fair voting system . |
| 13 | Once you have completed this , you can discuss it with your boss and ensure you are both on the same wavelength . |
| 14 | We heard about your recent burglary and hope you are not too upset by all the trouble and inconvenience . |
| 15 | Please let us know a little bit about you , your personal circumstances , how you scored and what course , job or career you are now following . |
| 16 | Familiarity with the case , product or service you are discussing may make you blinkered . |
| 17 | But to be of any real use giveaways must be both useful or decorative and relevant to the product or service you are promoting . |
| 18 | Today the Bangor editor said : ‘ We are determined to emulate our team and show we are the top dogs in north Down . |
| 19 | which one identifies , there 's a kind of feeling erm you know , we 're , we 're the members and there 's something special about us and er at the best we 're sorry for the non-members , we 'd like to have more of them and so we might proselytize and preach the gospel , you know you know throw away your idioms , become or in the worst possible way we might be an exclusive group and say we are , we are erm special , we are we , we know the truth and everybody else is infidels and you know they should be killed or driven out or or in some ways discriminated against because they 're wrong and we 're right . |
| 20 | I have never changed my view that whatever colour or race we are there is this common humanity . " |
| 21 | Diffusing knowledge and acquiring it are as much an art as a science , processes influenced by variables which can not be measured as much as by those which can . |
| 22 | ‘ Children often feel guilt and think they are to blame . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It is the loneliest thing in the world to wake up in the middle of the night and realize you are one of … them ! ’ |
| 24 | Most educationalists accept examination results as a performance indicator but believe they are too crude to be meaningful and should be seen alongside a number of other factors combined with visits to the school by parents . |
| 25 | Increasing excise duties on alcohol and tobacco have traditionally allowed Chancellors of the Exchequer to raise revenues with a matronly wag of the finger that suggests they are trying to do us a favour . |
| 26 | So we have put a marker in the ground and said we are not going to move forward in the production investment phase until we are satisfied that we have a fixed price at that point so we are actually going to cap our liabilities for Eurofighter with a max price for the whole of the remainder of the programme and then we will fix the price and hopefully get some economies from fixing at that point in time before we move forward into the next phase . |
| 27 | Q : And in Basic Instinct and Sliver you are totally naked . |
| 28 | Also it 's a role that tends to creep up on people — you do n't suddenly wake up one morning and find you are a carer . |
| 29 | Predictive typing is of particular value with disabled learners ; the software guesses the word or phrase you are currently typing , and offers you its guesses to save you key presses . |
| 30 | A government that believes we are out of recession , but is still making Britain the Taiwan of Europe . |