Example sentences of "are [vb pp] [subord] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One minute we are involved in matters of state , murder , Yorkist conspiracies , and the next we are dismissed because Her Grace wishes to attend a masque ! ’ |
| 2 | Similarly , Wordsworth is commonly bowdlerized into a ‘ Nature poet ’ , and his frequent accounts of human beings in economic difficulties are dismissed as his ‘ revolutionary growing-pains ’ — to be omitted from the safe anthologies in which he is. commonly presented to the adolescent mind . |
| 3 | If you are married without a pension in your own right and are treated as your husband 's dependant , then he draws an extra pension for you . |
| 4 | Is it realistic to expect junior house officers to admit to their consultants that they are overburdened when their career progression depends on getting a good reference ? |
| 5 | What that basically means , wherever that happens anywhere else in the country , you go to South Wales , you go to West Lothian , places like that I 've been up to West Lothian , all services are reduced when your main industry 's removed from an area . |
| 6 | That at any rate is how those who are viewed as their modern day counterparts are regarded by the heroine of Rubyfruit Jungle ( above , Chapter 3 ) ; and the anonymous interviewee cited by Esther Newton : ‘ I hate games ! |
| 7 | ‘ … while the uniformity and lack of explicit organization of production systems are touted as their most desirable features , attendant difficulties of dynamically organising and controlling coherent problem solutions must be seriously considered in problem domains requiring careful allocation of computational resources . ’ |
| 8 | Whole families of small mammals may die in their nest if buried by some natural process such as a landslide , or the young may die if the adults are killed before their offspring can fend for themselves . |
| 9 | Oxford is a safe place , but sometimes people are chased because our own youngsters are jealous about the perceived wealth that visitors have . |
| 10 | SIR — In all the election brouhaha that has commanded so much unenthusiastic attention this year , a fundamental change in the way composers are paid when their works are performed in public has been strangely neglected . |
| 11 | Conversely , supervisors may feel that their contributions to published papers are undervalued if their citation frequencies do not reflect their influence on research programmes . |