Example sentences of "[pron] are [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plot of ‘ Great Expectations ’ is a very concentrated one , where everything and everyone are linked in the same plot . |
| 2 | With the threat of relegation looming again , the loss of the ground , and the millstone around my neck of a team of asthmatic pine martens with the collective brain power of a kiwi fruit , the pressures on me are building to a frightening pitch . |
| 3 | The grass and reeds around me are flattened under the sudden , overnight fall of snow . |
| 4 | This applies especially to the life of the more affluent , most of whom are concentrated in the advanced societies . |
| 5 | In some cases , certainly , it is the result of a free choice on the part of individuals , most of whom are concentrated in the higher social classes where financial security , other than through earned income , is common . |
| 6 | Two novels of the 1720s point the contrast in public attitudes to the American colonies of the two countries in an odd way : the Abbé Prévost 's Manon Lescaut and Daniel Defoe 's Moll Flanders are about prostitutes , both of whom are transported to the new world , but Manon dies from exposure in the arms of her faithful des Grieux after walking six miles from New Orleans , while Moll Flanders settles down with her fifth husband to reckon her net worth in cash and tobacco before returning from Virginia to London . |
| 7 | Foreign Minister Levi told the Knesset ( parliament ) on March 18 : " Those who carried out the murder and those who sent them are destined for a painful punishment . |
| 8 | The hypotheses , formed after his observations , are many ; but most of them are related to the empirical findings of a long tradition and the world is spared a too individualistic interpretation of some of Nature 's more self-willed manifestations . |
| 9 | Lying behind my summary evaluations of these theories is the conviction that most of them are fixated around the unhelpful idea that hegemon states exploit other states . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , I 'll tell ye — nine hundred and ninety-nine of them are glued to the Holy Writ of Economic Theory ; the remaining one , which ought to be fixed on Ireland , is blind . ’ |
| 11 | Ways of using them are discussed in the next three chapters . |
| 12 | It is for the security force commanders to ensure that all the resources available to them are used with the maximum effectiveness . |
| 13 | ‘ What sometimes appear to be new strategies decentralisation , management by objectives , consultative supervision , ‘ democratic ’ leadership are usually but old wine in new bottles , because the procedures derived to implement them are derived from the same inadequate assumptions about human nature … |
| 14 | This should not suggest that my wife and I are cut from the American kind of Anglophilic chintz that may of you like to poke fun at . |
| 15 | As can be seen from table 6.6 , the proportion of all families with dependent children which are headed by a single parent increased from just over 8 per cent in 1971 to just under 12 per cent in 1981 . |
| 16 | The book comprises five chapters and a Postscript which are bound into a cohesive whole with the aid of the image of an intercontinental flight that functions " as a sustaining narrative device " ( p. xii ) . |
| 17 | + is used to join the notation of two subjects which are commonly associated with one another , but which are separated by the normal sequence in UDC . |
| 18 | Awards which are developed on a national basis and meet the criteria outlined below will be designated as NATIONAL AWARDS . |
| 19 | A distinction is made between temporary versions of an entry , which will have a short life-span in the Working-Set , and permanent versions of an entry which are transferred to the Main Database . |
| 20 | This is all the more true because of a trend towards bigger finance houses , which are chewing into a shrinking cake . |
| 21 | Prominent in the worldwide development of wind power , WEG is currently working on a range of advanced wind turbine designs — from 300 kW to multi-megawatt size — which are supported by a comprehensive R&D programme that includes work on aerodynamics , fatigue , adaptive control systems , transmission and materials testing . |
| 22 | This is an important concession and reads as follows : B18 Payments out of a discretionary trust : entitlement to relief from UK tax under the provisions of the Income Tax Acts or of a double taxation agreement If a payment made by trustees falls to be treated as a net amount in accordance with TA 1988 s.687(2) and the income arising under the trust includes income in respect of which the beneficiary would , if such income came to him directly instead of through trustees , be entitled to relief under the provisions of the Income Tax Acts , eg TA 1988 , s.278 ( claims for personal reliefs by non-residents ) ; TA 1988 s.47 ( claims for exemption from tax on certain UK Government securities held by persons not ordinarily resident in the UK ) ; TA 1988 ss.48 , 123 ( claims for exemption from UK tax on income from overseas securities by persons not resident in the UK ) ; or under the terms of a double taxation agreement , such relief will be granted to the beneficiary on a claim made by him to the extent that the payment is of income which arose to the trustees not earlier than in the year 1973 – 74 and not earlier than six years before the end of the year of assessment in which the payment was made , provided that the trustees have submitted for each year trust returns which are supported by the relevant income tax certificates and which detail all sources of trust income arising and payments made to beneficiaries . |
| 23 | They are unaffected by the weight attendant to luxurious living quarters which are built to the highest standards . |
| 24 | Works which are built within the contextual frame of governmental , corporate , educational and religious institutions run the risk of being read as tokens of those institutions . |
| 25 | ‘ The presentations of new language are lively and there is plenty of practice work in both the Classbook and the Resource Book , which are packed with a wide variety of useful and stimulating material . ’ |
| 26 | In addition to discussion of management problems , these sessions can be used to tackle some of the tensions and frustrations that can arise in teams of this kind , which are dealing with a rapid turnover of patients with acute problems , or problems that sometimes seem intractable , and where drop-out rates may be high . |
| 27 | All of the entries contain details of location , times of opening , admission prices , some of which are illustrated with a small map showing the exact location of the facilities , which when in a strange land will prove to be very helpful . |
| 28 | Each topic introduces a maximum of 15 new words which are listed in a clear alphabetical index at the back of the dictionary . |
| 29 | 2.1.2 " Building documents " means the plans drawings specifications and other documents relating to the Works which are listed in the third Schedule The tenant should have sight of these as soon as possible to ensure that they are in accordance with its understanding of what has been agreed . |
| 30 | Cocaine is traded openly in the favelas , which are ruled by the semi-fascist authorities of drug dealers . |