Example sentences of "these are " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are now due to occur in 1991 , having been postponed on several occasions over the past few years . |
| 2 | Unfortunately these are not isolated incidents . |
| 3 | 315 OF THESE ARE IN THE UK , WORKING ON BEHALF OF 318 INDIVIDUALS AND RAISING MORE THAN £260,000 A YEAR TO FURTHER AMNESTY 'S WORK . |
| 4 | These are description , interpretation , and judgement . |
| 5 | These are matters which border on philosophy . |
| 6 | Battle , Murder , and Death , Venuses and Psyches , the bloody and voluptuous , are the things in which they seem to delight : and these are portrayed in a cold , hard , and often tawdry style , with an almost universal deficiency of chiaroscuro ; the whole artificial , labored and theatrical . |
| 7 | The interpretation of imagery , the circumstances of production , the place of the work in the artist 's career , the historical context , the precise information about the work 's appearance and condition , these are things that can be fully discussed in a monograph . |
| 8 | A characteristic historical exhibition may be called something like ‘ The Age of Rembrandt ’ , or ‘ Shock of Recognition ; the landscape of English Romanticism and the Dutch seventeenth-century school ’ ; both of these are actual titles . |
| 9 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 10 | Times have changed since Naipaul began to write about the societies of the Caribbean : these are now less apt to seem , to the outsider , petty and remote . |
| 11 | These are books by middle-aged semi-Scots who have chosen to publish accounts of their early lives which lay stress on the troubles they experienced , on the troubles inflicted , within their respective environments , by poverty and servitude , and on the responsibility of relatives for some of what the writers had to suffer . |
| 12 | In Glasser 's book , and in Fraser 's , the activities of the poor can be seen as activities which had been performed , and written about , in the past : but these are books which intimate that the lists and specifications of a caring naturalism — features by which they have indeed been influenced — were never exhaustive : that the truth-tellers did not tell it , and that the omissions were systematic . |
| 13 | These are portraits of the artist who grows up in an age of revolutionary socialism and who has to make what he can of it . |
| 14 | These are better than the poison-taking and tomb scenes . |
| 15 | These are the forgeries of jealousy : |
| 16 | Finally , here are some reminders — it may sound like a do 's and don'ts column , but these are important things to remember . |
| 17 | These are probably more likely to vote for Paisley 's democratic unionism and to come from either religious , fundamentalist backgrounds or populist working-class and lower middle-class backgrounds . |
| 18 | The debate is now largely ‘ old hat ’ in the sociology of education and there is a general consensus that schools do indeed impart values , but these are usually modified or developed versions of already existing dominant values of the society of which they form a part , including a number of parental values . |
| 19 | These are not just fizzy lager joints , but environments where a bank of six beer engines can sit happily on the bar counter offering a wide selection of real ales . |
| 20 | These are air-borne and are also present in some foods , most notably in eggs . |
| 21 | These are the only tangibles upon which an assessment of such a profession can be made . |
| 22 | ‘ I derive my enjoyment of food from its colour , texture and the combination on the plate when I eat ; so these are the things that I concentrate on when cooking for customers , ’ she explains . |
| 23 | Also , these are the basic rates of pay for a basic 35-hour week , and generous overtime rates are paid for late-night and weekend work . |
| 24 | These are mostly fairly straightforward with clear and concise instructions for jellies , jams , dumplings and suchlike . |
| 25 | ‘ But Charles , these are my students ! |
| 26 | These are terrible ! ’ |
| 27 | There are compact , slow-growing forms of nearly all our native trees , but though these are always my first option I consider it a mistake to limit planting choice to our indigenous flora . |
| 28 | Contrasting with these are ‘ White Lustre ’ ans ‘ White Swan ’ , both with white-rayed daisies . |
| 29 | Whether you grow vegetables , summer bedding or an informal patch of wildflowers , you should compost or destroy dead leaves , exhausted plants , vegetable stumps and thinnings , for all these are favourite haunts of many harmful insects . |
| 30 | These are the sensations of reduced gravity or low ‘ g ’ . |