Example sentences of "are [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are times these days when I feel so starved of warmth that the instructions on a painkiller packet or vitamin tub ( " At the first sign of a cold developing be sure to … " ) can make me go all husky and brave . |
| 2 | The ‘ normal minimum admission standards ’ listed in these tables are for many areas of study a realistic indication of the grades likely to be required and applicants who hold these grades stand an excellent chance of being made an offer , eg for most degrees in the Faculty of Arts , the Faculty of Science and Engineering , and the less pressured areas in the Social Sciences such as Nursing Studies or Social Policy . |
| 3 | Open Houses are for any mums and their children the majority of whom are obviously of pre-school age . |
| 4 | Open Houses are for any mums and their children the majority of whom are obviously of pre-school age . |
| 5 | Open Houses are for any mums and their children the majority of whom are obviously of pre-school age . |
| 6 | Open Houses are for any mums and their children the majority of whom are obviously of pre-school age . |
| 7 | Open Houses are for any mums and their children the majority of whom are obviously of pre-school age . |
| 8 | These figures are for those researchers actually finishing their work and submitting a successful thesis , and they do not include those who failed to complete their research , or who failed to reach the required standard for the granting of the Ph D degree . |
| 9 | These figures are for those researchers actually finishing their work and submitting a successful thesis , and they do not include those who failed to complete their research , or who failed to reach the required standard for the granting of the Ph D degree . |
| 10 | Nothing to do with heroics — heroics are for those epics they make in Hollywood — or the fact that I could n't live with myself . |
| 11 | Alan and I served er , together as er , deputy Chairs , or vice-Chairs or whatever the appropriate words are for several years er , and I erm , well I think I would adopt the words that he used about the experience that he has had in the Chair , to whit , that his companionship and his contribution to our affairs has been stimulating , enlightening and particularly enjoyable . |
| 12 | The system is complicated and credited contributions are for some purposes not as good as paid contributions . |
| 13 | R&D workers are between these extremes . |
| 14 | There should be such a requirement in Britain , instead of just relying that we are about these orders er on the o o on the er auditors er them that that that the the themselves . |
| 15 | They are out most nights visiting a post office somewhere or repossessing cars . |
| 16 | Furthermore , to the extent that a tendency has developed to disbelieve policemen , who are after all officers of the law , it marks a serious deterioration in the quality of the administration of justice . |
| 17 | There are after all occasions when words do very well on their own . |
| 18 | The percentages are of all households in each ethnic group with dependent children under the age of 19 . |
| 19 | The Crime Survey is a victimisation study and its main conclusion is one that has been noted , in a less systematic way , many times before : working-class crime is a problem , and it is a problem for the working class , since they are its principal victims , as they are of all types of crime : |
| 20 | The jewels of men are geometrical , but the jewels of the sea are of all shapes and they are jewels of a subtler quality of thought . |
| 21 | In central New Guinea , for example , there are monocultures of taro ( Colocasia esculenta , Araceae ) in small gardens ; there is no general burning but the plantings are of several cultivars and the cropping period is brief , the fallows long . |
| 22 | Analytical entries , derived from scanning journals , are of several types — current awareness , enquiry answering , taxonomic , biographical , illustrations . |
| 23 | These are of several types but predominantly of the circular tumulus design with its stone base and decorative cornice ( 80 and 84 ) . |
| 24 | The terranes are of several types and include slivers of oceanic crust , fragments of intra-oceanic island arcs and slices detached from unknown continental margins . |
| 25 | The muscle fibres in the skeletal ( voluntary ) muscles of vertebrates ( the muscles , that is , that are concerned with locomotion ) are of several kinds . |
| 26 | These connections are of several kinds . |
| 27 | The results of a normal co-ordinate analysis are of several kinds . |
| 28 | A nationwide study has revealed that the managers surveyed are of those Managers nearly 80% do n't take the holiday their entitled to . |
| 29 | ‘ They watch Masters of the Universe and Superman on TV and these guys in their outrageous costumes are like those cartoons . |
| 30 | They find that unhappy childhoods are behind many difficulties in later life . |