Example sentences of "are [conj] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elaine , a 16-year-old girl who has spent most of her life on the streets of Rio de Janeiro , in Brazil , puts it better : ‘ I dream of a better world , a world where children and adults are no longer abandoned , tortured and murdered because of who we are or what we do … |
| 2 | Regardless of who we are or what we may do in life all of us have an upper limit to the stress that our bodies can take . |
| 3 | No , you do n't put in who they are or what they are , you just say , where it come , originates from and erm what their job was . |
| 4 | Two of us in a great mass of strangers , and various things to do that you 've got to get right , like follow signs and collect your luggage ; then you get looked over by the customs , and no-one particularly cares who you are or what you 're doing there so the two of you have to keep one another cheerful … |
| 5 | Cos it does n't matter who you are or what you are , reverse the roles , everybody makes mistakes when you 're driving . |
| 6 | ‘ You appear to know who I am , but you still have n't told me who you are or what you want with me . ’ |
| 7 | No matter what you are or what you 've done , I ca n't wait to feel myself moving inside you , burn up in your flame . ’ |
| 8 | Such is the informality of this unique little island that it matters not who you are or what you have . |
| 9 | Perhaps the most moving sentence in the whole book comes in the last chapter as he takes his leave of his reader : ‘ For it is not what you are nor what you have been that God regards with his most merciful eyes , but what you would like to be . ’ |
| 10 | The advantages of studying at home are that you yourself can choose where , when and how to study . |
| 11 | Which in some senses , defining it crudely , is that it matters more what you are than what you do . |
| 12 | The greater the sense of pride in who we are and what we do , the more we feel we deserve reward and praise . |
| 13 | For most of us , though , gaining recognition from others is to some extent dependent on our confidence in letting others know who we are and what we 're about . |
| 14 | It is important that we help each other tell the truth about who we are and what we 've done . |
| 15 | We feel subjectively that we have the ability to choose who we are and what we do . |
| 16 | If the company ‘ goes under ’ , I fear R will regard the years he has spent on it as wasted , it seems to be a feature of modern society that we tend to judge who we are and what we 've achieved , even what success is , by our work above everything else . |
| 17 | Look at what they are and what we are . |
| 18 | ‘ We want to make sure that UK handling agents , Scottish hotels and in particular coach operators are aware of who we are and what we have to offer their clients . ’ |
| 19 | Maybe one of you good bodies over the water would fax this to Elland Road with a short message stating who we are and what we want : - ) ) |
| 20 | Oh what action they are and what what 's that ? |
| 21 | Political parties spend vast amounts of money finding out who their supporters and detractors are and what their views are on key issues . |
| 22 | It must be emphasised , however , that although the register provides prima facie evidence of who its members are and what their shareholdings are , it provides no evidence at all , either to the company or anyone else , of who the beneficial owners of the shares are . |
| 23 | There are times when it might seem that this is a definition which can produce the sense of a self which is both amorphous and autonomous , of a doubtful self which also serves to cast doubt on the human world that lies beyond the subjective individual — a world which some writers are , and some are not , very cunning in , and which is inhabited by people with a working knowledge of who they are and what they are doing . |
| 24 | Make sure that you know what these are and what they mean . |
| 25 | Without having that understanding of what emotions are and what they are doing to us we can not analyse the way in which emotions disturb our balance and what that should teach us about ourselves and our relationship with the world . |
| 26 | Pride is a state in which people seek attention and recognition for what they think they are and what they think they have done . |
| 27 | Few people understand exactly what they are and what they can do and quite a few people have mistaken impressions from the media . |
| 28 | It is , after all , easier for us all if we know where our ‘ old folk ’ are and what they are doing . |
| 29 | The exploration of what these values are and what they mean has hardly started , but it should become a primary focus of communication ethics . |
| 30 | Huntley , a burly 51-yearold , has created a constant reminder of who they are and what they want in the form of glossy profiles , complete with pictures , inserted beneath a glass plate on the leather topped table in his office . |