Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 've accepted it as fate that people are building me up to knock me down . |
| 2 | Since then , this deserted corner of King 's Reach Tower has been my spiritual home , but I gradually overcame the contemptuous disdain which is heaped on all outsiders and now , finally , I feel the natives are accepting me as one of their own . |
| 3 | The C E C are accepting it , all those in favour ? |
| 4 | The hours which are wasting him away also seem to have a mental effect on Tithonus as well . |
| 5 | At Ann 's he goes into a rant about the people of Pinner Green who are annoying him . |
| 6 | ‘ You are annoying me , young lady . ’ |
| 7 | This Bill is the flagship of the Government 's legislative programme , and Labour Members are opposing it hook , line and sinker . |
| 8 | " We 've made no headway towards finding out whether your suspicions of Mr. Andrew Stavanger 's letter are justified We do n't yet know where Mr. Stavanger is , and such evidence as we 've been able to discover so far is inconclusive , " I said . |
| 9 | If these intuitions are justified it follows that some exhaustive analyses of the concepts of excuse misconceive the social function and thereby distort the nature and operation of the criminal law . |
| 10 | THE Great British public are proving they 're not sheepish about nuclear power with crowds flocking to the Sellafield Visitors Centre . |
| 11 | Shire horses are proving they 're just as useful as tractors in maintaining ancient woodland . |
| 12 | If it 's a will it 's the executor or the one executor of the number of them who are proving it . |
| 13 | ‘ And how anxious I am to see her again ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ But , oh , Tilly … you do n't know how glad I am to see you . ’ |
| 15 | I ca n't tell you how pleased I am to see you ! |
| 16 | ‘ I was just thinking how glad I am to see you , ’ she said candidly . |
| 17 | This is somewhat unfortunate because by the fourteenth of January we are supposed to agree a purchase plan with the health authority , and it 's a little difficult to do that in the absence of the knowledge of what conditions are attaching us to where and how you can spend the money . |
| 18 | It suggests at once beauty and brutality for some are born with black eyes and some are given them . |
| 19 | But whatever name they are given they make fascinating aquarium inhabitants . |
| 20 | When dates for particular artefact-types are given it is rarely made clear whether that date is one of manufacture of the artefacts , its period of use or the context in which it was found . |
| 21 | This difference distinguishes causal circumstances and their effects from the other instances of necessary connection , the nomic correlates. ( 1.5 ) All necessary connections are open to forms of mathematical expression , and typically are given it in science . |
| 22 | ‘ Sense and Memory of things , which are common to man and all living creatures ’ are knowledge , but ‘ because they are given us immediately by nature , and not gotten by ratiocination , they are not philosophy . ’ |
| 23 | Another possible version of foundationalism holds that there are some beliefs which are given us as ‘ data ’ , and which are fully justified unless something arises to defeat their justification ( cf. the use of defeasibility in 2.3 ) . |
| 24 | By fighting back only when the bully attacks you , you are allowing him or her to pick the time and the place that suits them ; it may be a good idea to reverse the roles . |
| 25 | Tribal communities — who have ownership rights over 97 per cent of the country 's land — are becoming more reluctant to sign agreements with the logging companies , the RIC says , while developments such as the " walkabout " sawmill are allowing them to operate their own small-scale logging operations in a more or less sustainable manner . |
| 26 | Remember that this is the only national fundraising that we are asked to do each year and that this year HQ are allowing us to keep 20% of the cash for our branch funds … so come along the other 75% , let's find those books of tickets and get the stubs ( and the £2 ) to , |
| 27 | In the final analysis you are getting nervous and undermining your chances for success because you are frightened of something which really does not matter as much as you are allowing it to . |
| 28 | Er not because of the number of deaths is going to vary sig very significantly as Mrs said , we we are allowing it to improve over time gradually . |
| 29 | Mr Macmillan echoed the same thinking about the H-bomb : ‘ When the tests are completed we shall be in the same position as the United States or Soviet Russia … |
| 30 | The Bypass is divided into five sections , namely : and when all sections are completed it will extend from the Glasgow/Edinburgh Road ( A8 ) in the west , to the Musselburgh Bypass in the east , providing a continuous route around the city . |