Example sentences of "are [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | His snores are thunder in the night . |
2 | ‘ Well , Sergei and I are kind of symbols . ’ |
3 | Sometimes they 're just aesthetically pleasing things ; some of the old Gretsch amplifiers and that kind of thing are kind of cool to look at . |
4 | SunSoft Inc president Ed Zander acknowledges the Solaris ‘ endorsements ’ he got last week from the hardware community are kind of lukewarm and skimpy — see page two — but he still claims , mostly for Destiny 's benefit , that he 's got the only tested and proven big-time distribution channel , namely Sun Microsystems Inc . |
5 | what somebody said that the , sometimes the pupil 's comments are kind of as Andrew pointed out earlier that er |
6 | There are other reasons as well , things like peace and tranquillity er time to reflect er and yeah there are other motivations as well which you , if you like , are kind of negative . |
7 | So in effect there are kind of like negative motivating factors which is basically all to do about escape where you do n't care where you go as long as you get away from here . |
8 | A taboo is something beyond reason and as we saw , what Freud does in the book is compare it with neurotic prohibitions which are kind of personal taboos , and in fact the sub-title of the book is some points of agreement between the mental lives of savages and neurotics . |
9 | Other groups however , possibly smaller ones or more erm or , or more er or ones that are kind of more fired up with er , wi wi with with feelings of group membership , you find the opposite , you find stronger identifications , more emphasis on leaders and consequently followers . |
10 | You may be okay , you may not be okay , you 've got two recessives per human figure , you 're not er , all one can say is genes are kind of heaped together and natural selection does n't really care . |
11 | You are kind of dozing but you are not asleep because you ca n't get to sleep because there is a needle sticking in your arm and you have got a drip going on and they come and change the bag and you are constantly feeling sick . |
12 | There is absolutely no question that there are kind of money advice people in the City sitting around with nothing to do , quite the contrary , so I mean it 's not a duplication , erm and of course we make sure that we that all the people involved in money advice within the City , whether funded directly or indirectly by the City Council , work with each other and co-operate with each other and form a network . |
13 | These pillars here in the gallery are kind of working also quite minimally as trees in the gallery , so it sets up a nice atmosphere . |
14 | NCR Corp 's Microelectronic Products Division in Colorado Springs , Colorado has joined forces with Corel Corp , Ottawa , Ontario to support and advance SCSI disk controller technology : included are support for the interoperability of CorelSCSI software and NCR 's Small Computer System Interface Device Management System software , and CorelSCSI 's use of the NCR 53C810 PCI/SCSI controller for Peripheral Component Interconnect machines . |
15 | The first 11 cantos are preparation of the palette . |
16 | The central T8-A9 step is overwound to 44° , whereas the flanking C-T and A-G steps are underwound to 28° . |
17 | The most liquid of the market loans are money at call and short notice lent to the discount houses . |
18 | It was illustrated in a 15th century manuscript , and Gerard referred to it as being useful for preserving the eyesight ; Culpeper advised its use for those " that are bit with serpents or have eat … mushrooms " . |
19 | At the outset , some things are bit like a first round of a sparing match . |
20 | The present case suggests that not only are counsel under a duty to point out errors they observe but , citing Donoghue , that ‘ it would be helpful ’ if counsel for the prosecution were to make a check list of essential directions and draw attention to any omissions before the retirement of the jury . |
21 | The main aims are funding of a two story terminus building at Leicester as well as developing the double track project partly funded by enthusiast David Clark . |
22 | How big are division within post-Communist societies according to age , gender , education etc ? |
23 | Sunderland are shite at the moment but that s because all four of their new signings were injured in a car crash . |
24 | Most of the other ornaments are terracotta including two handsome dogs which guard the patio . |
25 | It should be noted that these in vitro results are contrast with the hypothesis mentioned above . |
26 | Most of the downland woods are west of the Arun gap and , apart from plantations , beech ( Fagus sylvatica ) is the dominant tree , although it rarely regenerates , and where no replanting takes place ash ( Fraxinus excelsior ) quickly asserts itself . |
27 | I am the servant of the cause I have at heart , and you and I , and Harry if need be , are coin to be spent for it . ’ |
28 | Remarkably , more than a third ( 83m ) are University of Wales dissertations , three metres and a great deal of midnight oil more than in the previous year . |
29 | But the white man does not believe that cattle are payment for taking someone 's life . ’ |
30 | They are Board of Trade President Michael Heseltine , Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind , Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke and Foreign Office Minister Tristan Garel-Jones . |