Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few schools serve a homogeneous intake , the majority draw on a wide range of social and cultural backgrounds and care needs to be taken that false assumptions are not made about parents ' hopes for their children and their beliefs about the purpose of education . |
| 2 | But then most teams are not lumbered with Spurs ' defence . |
| 3 | In general , responses to direct or indirect questioning about non-standard varieties are always conditioned by speakers ' awareness of their social significance and usually reflect knowledge of the standard rules . |
| 4 | Plumbing goods are also sold by builders ' merchants and by hardware and do-it-yourself shops . |
| 5 | Medium-term euro-credits : Medium-term syndicated loans are sometimes used by LDCs ' banks to fund loan books . |
| 6 | " Meanings " are neither equated with speakers ' intentions , nor with recipients ' interpretations ; both are looked on as mental entities which are of little interest as long as they do not " materialize " in interaction . |
| 7 | Such actions are commonly built into firms ' and shops ' accounting procedures , as ‘ stock shrinkage ’ perhaps . |
| 8 | Amounts which are commonly established by accountants ' certificates in sale and purchase of business agreements include : ( 1 ) profits , losses and sales ; ( 2 ) the value of the stock ; ( 3 ) apportionments between vendor and purchaser ; ( 4 ) the turnover of service businesses and the value of service contracts ; ( 5 ) the evaluation of loan portfolios of banks ; ( 6 ) the net asset value of a company or business at a particular date ; and ( 7 ) the cost of repairing or replacing an asset transferred with the business . |
| 9 | Their great value was that Gothic structures ‘ are seldom mistaken for Mechanics ' Institutes , Post Offices or Banks ' . |