Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , Master , we are building our arguments on the fact that there were men who looked like King James . ’ |
| 2 | Will the Prime Minister now tell us whether he accepts that , in addition to the massive number of homes repossessed last year , a further 80,000 families are to lose their homes in the current year ? |
| 3 | Two hundred and ninety people are to lose their jobs with the closure of one of the country 's leading leather manufacturers . |
| 4 | So to raise funds , some of the villagers are opening their gardens to the public on Saturday . |
| 5 | My answer to this criticism was that teachers of English are virtually unanimous in their enthusiasm for literature , but need persuasion if they are to accept our recommendations for the teaching of grammar , Standard English and knowledge about language . |
| 6 | The Miami Cubans are flexing their wallets for the return to a country whose people are healthier , better educated and less racially divided than when the exiles left . |
| 7 | The trend towards milder winters is beginning to concern horticulturists. many trees need lengthy cold spells if they are to open their buds at the right time in spring , and research on the Continent confirms that apple trees will be confused by the changing climate . |
| 8 | Several chandlers are revising their catalogues for the new year . |
| 9 | At present all CAD companies are pushing their techniques from the low to the mid level of involvement . |
| 10 | She 's been reported missing and we 're checking her movements for the two weeks before she vanished . ’ |
| 11 | At the moment you 're cre , you 're cor , , you 're correcting your procedures on the basis of auditing and finding out what we 're not doing instead of really thinking about them . |
| 12 | ‘ See you 're doing your rounds with the first night presents . ’ |
| 13 | So I 'd like to reflect that against what the government has done since our unique November conference they have cut the Health and Safety Executive 's budget for nineteen ninety three ninety four by five percent , that 's a total of thirteen million pounds the Department of Employment have already admitted this will lead to less inspections and less prosecutions they have introduced a market tex market testing exercise into the H S E in other words they 're saying what parts of the Health and Safety Executive can be privatized into , no doubt , their friends in industry they have made sure that Health that the Health and Safety Commission will work slower in the future by making the chair which is currently a full-time post a part-time post from September this year . |
| 14 | He says we predict that a reservoir of this size will be essential if we 're to supply our customers with the water the need . |
| 15 | And it 's dangerous ground , because before you know it they 're not just honouring millionaires by putting their names on degrees , they 're putting their names over the door . |
| 16 | They 're depriving their children of the maternal love that is the child 's by right . |
| 17 | They are turning their backs on the low paid workers . |
| 18 | Writing later , in 1937 , J. B. Priestley 's main concern was to stress the Englishness of Chaplin ( though he did concede that the Chaplin symbol was half-French in inspiration ) and he talked of him as being ‘ the greatest humourist since Dickens ’ and of belonging above all to London 's East End and to ‘ the swarms of bright-eyed urchins who are thumbing their noses at the nearest policemen ’ . |
| 19 | Doctors , nurses , unions , patient groups and even local schoolchildren are adding their voices to the protest . |
| 20 | Here … the payment of the majority of the men each week takes place four and a half thousand men are handed their wages by the pay-clerks in less than ten minutes . |
| 21 | I wonder if on some distant planet there are creatures who are holding their sides at the prospect of us hurling plates at each other . ’ |
| 22 | So , Thames police are sharing their skills with the public . |
| 23 | There is an argument of increasing popularity with government and some of the advisers to government , that since comprehensive schools are widely seen to do worse for their pupils than selective schools in terms of examination results , and since so many people , if they can afford it , are removing their children from the maintained comprehensive sector to independent schools ( which are broadly speaking selective ) a way must be found for government to supply non-comprehensive schools , in the interests of the country as a whole . |
| 24 | And Cardiff coaching organiser Alex Evans knows his side must win if they are to justify their claims to the All-Whites ' throne . |
| 25 | ‘ The way retailers are running their businesses at the moment means that they are never overstaffed . |
| 26 | Was a polite Behaviour joined to that honest Sincerity and social Disposition which is remarkable in the English Sailors , I think they would not only be the most useful Men in the Island , but by much the most agreeable Companions : For this Reason , I would recommend it to Parents who are to breed their Sons to the Sea , to give them an early Taste of Letters , especially the European Tongue , which will be of great Service to their Business as well as polish their Manners " . |
| 27 | Local police are continuing their investigations into the incident . |
| 28 | , Villagers are continuing their protests against the Sardar Sarovar dam in the Narmada river in central India [ see ED No. 48 ] despite the danger posed to their village by water building up behind the half-completed dam . |
| 29 | I 'm told your memories of the whole period of the collapse of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire are fascinating . |
| 30 | I remember I was going in to record ‘ Cuts Like A Knife ’ and I said , ‘ I 'm taking you guys into the studio , ’ because who I play with on stage , I want them in the studio with me ; I like the idea of having one unit . ’ |