Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] are [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Lords , is my Noble Friend aware that many parents and teachers who have been deeply dissatisfied and disillusioned by local education authority schools in fact just set up their own new schools which are providing excellent education and really meeting those parental wishes , often with very strong er spiritual and moral values . |
| 2 | In his own words : I believe that it must be the policy of the USA to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressure . |
| 3 | Philip II of Spain came close to achieving it , before he was defeated by , among others , half naked English mercenary soldiers who ‘ for thieving and brawling had no equals ’ — the ancestors of the football fans who are plotting next year 's ‘ English invasion of Italy ’ . |
| 4 | Although this precedes one-step sparring , caution must be exercised by fighters who are striking each other with hard techniques . |
| 5 | In other words you are putting undue strain on your machine . |
| 6 | Other winners in the awards ceremony seen as a pointer to the Hollywood Oscars which are announced next week included Silence of the Lambs star Anthony Hopkins . |
| 7 | Staw and Szwajkowski attempted to test the following hypothesis : ‘ when the organization is located within a scarce environment , one method of coping with intra- and extra-organizational demands may be to perform activities which are legally questionable … the more scarce the environment of a business organization , the more likely it will engage in activities which are considered unfair market practices or restraints of trade ’ ( 1975 : 346–47 ) . |
| 8 | The microeconomic imperfections which are given special attention are imperfect information ( eg firms ' inability to monitor accurately the productivities of their employees ) , imperfect competition ( eg collective bargaining ) , and various transactions costs ( eg the costs of hiring , training , and firing employees ) . |
| 9 | He created two competing monopolies which are causing considerable unrest within the industry . |
| 10 | Much of the stonework had become coated with a black layer of gypsum ( calcium sulphate ) and soot , while the lower levels of the façade are also affected by salt and nitrates which are causing severe damage . |
| 11 | For the more environmentally sensitive areas which are assuming more importance , the |
| 12 | Indeed , I have found that students and businessmen who are using this technique for the first time tend to get confused between the two axes . |
| 13 | However , they can be a useful ‘ selling tool ’ when dealing in particular with poorer countries who are granted cheaper borrowing rates than , say , countries in Western Europe . |
| 14 | These documents were later issued to bankers who are granting medium-term credit facilities to the authorities . |
| 15 | THE Road Haulage Association is warning about a team of bogus engineers who are contacting mobile phone users on the pretext of tracing and solving connection problems . |
| 16 | The rest of the money that British Rail has available should be spent on projects that are desperately needed to provide jam today , not tomorrow , for the commuters who are paying British Rail for the services it offers today . |
| 17 | Over the next six months the Mappin will provide the necessary focus and space to deliberate and discuss some of the newly forged procedures and pleasures explored by the contemporary women artists who are reappropriating non-representational painting , drawing and installation work as a suitable form of creative expression . |
| 18 | Students at the University are eligible to apply for sports bursaries which are awarded each year to those students who have already shown that they have exceptional sporting ability and who wish to achieve further excellence . |
| 19 | History will deliver a harsh judgment on the politicians and warlords who are fermenting this chaos but I doubt if there are enough prison cells in Europe to hold all the war criminals . |
| 20 | Some of these people have not been baptized yet , others have , and some of them are already Catholics who are seeking full union with the Church through the sacrament of Confirmation . |
| 21 | Popular Unionist councillor Valerie Kinghan said local people were ‘ completely fed up ’ at the din from the gospellers who are using powerful amplification to put their message across . |
| 22 | The needs of applicants who are contemplating legal practice in England and Wales will generally be better met by studying in a university or college south of the border . |
| 23 | Then the overall mean stress and similarly At any point in the phases we have with inverses We are assuming each phase to be uniform and isotropic , so that the same relations must hold between averaged stresses and strains , namely |
| 24 | Electronics designers will need to follow some rules of thumb , many of which will be familiar , such as mains filtration , adopting a sensible grounding policy , minimising ground impedance , minimising cable lengths , screening cables which are carrying high frequency , large magnitude signals or which contain sensitive signals , and grouping cables to separate the sensitive from the interfering . |
| 25 | According to metaphysics , even terminal diseases can potentially be cured , by tackling the emotional blocks , imbalances and negative beliefs which are creating that illness . |
| 26 | Preliminary work began last September following the appointment of two countryside officers who are employed full time on the project . |
| 27 | Numerous studies have found that patients who are given adequate information by doctors , nurses and midwives are both more satisfied with their medical care and more compliant . |
| 28 | We 're having with effect from next Monday to reduce er our service to urgent cases only : accidents , emergency cases , those that need urgent medical care , they will be dealt with , but patients who are awaiting this type cases , for orthopaedics , gynaecology , general surgery er will have to be postponed for a period of about 5 weeks . |
| 29 | There 's no way that child should have died , but you know what these famous words in real terms , in real terms we are putting more money into the Health Service . |
| 30 | There are several developments which are enabling rapid change to take place in telecommunications . |