Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [prep] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the dust-laden wind meets an obstacle , the dust particles rarely strike the obstacle as they are diverted round it in the general air flow and so exert little or no erosive effect . |
| 2 | It seems to be established , and rightly so , that the criterion is not geographical — privilege does not attach to letters sent by constituents to a member , even though they are posted to him in the post office in the Lobby of the House of Commons ( Rivlin v Bilainkin [ 1953 ] 1 QB 485 ) . |
| 3 | The courses are designed for anyone in the voluntary sector who is unsure how the changes will affect them or who simply wants to be better informed . |
| 4 | Recently many artificial fibres , such as nylon , made in chemical factories , have replaced cotton or wool , or they are mixed with them in the spinning or weaving process . |
| 5 | She wrote : ’ I am writing to you in the hope that you can help me with the injustice which has occurred . |
| 6 | In simple terms , sponsorship of the Universities ' Athletic Union rugby championship alone is not acceptable to the UAU 's hierarchy , who seek money for all student sporting activities and are looking for something in the region of £100,000 to spread around . |
| 7 | But the politicians are looking for it in the wrong direction . |
| 8 | We 're particularly proud of him in South Cambridgeshire , as we 're also proud that so many of our environmental health officers like Alan Hobson do sterling work for us , and we are looking to them in the in the future with this semi-autonomy that they 've been given to really take on board the opportunities which have been given to them under the 1990 Act to really go to town on environmental health . |
| 9 | DB2 is a relational DBMS , that is data structures are presented to it in the form of tables ; IMS views the data structures in terms of hierarchies ; and IDMS in terms of networks . |
| 10 | In the long term we 'd like to go on , and build a workshop , make our own recycle refurbish electrical goods , because , obviously , this is something a bit more in capital intensive , and it 's something we 're looking at it in the future . |
| 11 | What is the first thing we 're told about it in the third stanza ? |
| 12 | ‘ They 're waiting for you in the alley way at the back of the shop . |
| 13 | You do it all the time , they 're conditioned to it in the end . |
| 14 | Now what I 'm saying to you is that there 's a big question mark as far as Goodey er report is concerned and they can talk about er the surpluses , they can talk about the trustees , but there 's no majority as far as the employees are concerned and this was the question mark that we we were saying that one of the reasons why they were saying you know that the employee should be in the minority because in the end paragraph of the summing up of the Goodey report that states quite clearly that all the responsibility and all the but the employer , now you yourself has said that er as far as the schemes and we 're talking of something in the region of a hundred and twenty eight thousand . |
| 15 | We 're talking about something in the region of four thousand pounds to do the the loose-leaf brochure and seven sheets . |
| 16 | I 'm smiling to myself in the darkness , Timmy — I wish you could see me . |
| 17 | ( 3 ) Where co-owners of an estate or interest in any land , … not being itself partnership property , are partners as to profits made by the use of that land or estate , and purchase other land or estate out of the profits to be used in like manner , the land or estate so purchased belongs to them , in the absence of an agreement to the contrary , not as partners but as co-owners for the same respective estates and interests as are held by them in the land or estate first mentioned at the date of the purchase . |
| 18 | But if you believe that there is a God then they are working for you in the sense that , for them , to pray is to work . |