Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [adj] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doors with wood or aluminium frames are widely available from builders ' merchants and timber yards , and you can either do the work yourself or call in a local builder to do it for you . |
| 2 | This might lead to the assumption that they are less sensitive to others ' misunderstanding than are adults . |
| 3 | There will continue to be problems if science teachers are personally doubtful about girls ' ability to do science well ; even if their doubts are not voiced ( and anecdotal evidence suggests they sometimes are ) , girls are unlikely to respond unless teachers show they believe that girls have something to offer science as well as the reverse . |
| 4 | The small holdings of government debt and of net short-term assets ( mainly bank deposits ) is a reflection of the point we observed earlier , namely , that investment trusts are not subject to savers ' redemptions . |
| 5 | This has the real hard stuff — cattle mutilations performed by aliens ( apparently , ‘ for reasons we do n't yet understand ’ , they 're also interested in cows ' bottoms ) , UFOs and AIDS , stories about he ‘ men in black ’ , CIA men from space , who drive brand new Fifties ' cars , wear trousers that do n't crease and harass people who claim to have seen UFOs . |
| 6 | A lot of women do this , they 're very tolerant about boys ' mess in the home and untidiness generally , and in a sense they , they lay the foundations , right from the very beginning , of boys ' growing up to think of women as kind of household servants . |
| 7 | You will also need to check the measurements of rooms , which are usually inaccurate in agents ' particulars . |
| 8 | Ideally , an approach is required which will narrow the focus of the " act of identity " in such a way that individual choices like the one just mentioned can be seen as part of systematic behaviour patterns which are simultaneously typical of speakers ' own fictive speech communities and conditioned by the immediate context of the interaction in which they occur . |
| 9 | Solicitors regularly appear as advocates in the lower courts and , by special hat of the Lord Chancellor , in some Crown Courts which are geographically remote from barristers ' chambers . |
| 10 | One-part urethanes offer improved abrasion resistance and are commonly available in builders ' merchants/d-i-y stores — examples are ‘ Furniglas ’ and ‘ Ronseal Hardglaze ’ . |
| 11 | They are very tolerant about boys ' mess in the home and untidiness generally , and in a sense they lay the foundations right from the very beginning of boys growing up to think of women as kind of household servants — this attitude , you know , boys will be boys and they make a mess and poor mum has to do all the washing . |