Example sentences of "[pers pn] are [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Objects are defined by their function , while actions and those who perform them are viewed as connected parts of a greater whole . |
2 | Incensed by such treatment , the hare scratched the Moon 's face with his claws and the two of them are disfigured to this day . |
3 | Some of them are explained in more detail on the following pages along with accounts of Tesco 's efforts to tackle a range of problems from toxic chemicals to energy conservation . |
4 | We have moved away from such remedies as being too brutal for a humane society and nowadays those who advocate them are seen as blimpish relics of an imperialist , authoritarian society which favoured cold baths and weals on the buttocks as character forming . |
5 | There are currently 79,000 children and young people being cared for by the local authorities in the U.K. and half of them are looking for foster homes . |
6 | Assistant Chief Environmental Health Officer , John Copley , says people in Oxford have much less of a chance of receiving help than those in other cities , even though some of them are living in appalling conditions . |
7 | There may be 32m cars on the road in a country of 123m people — but , as yet , only 6% of them are fitted with compact-disc players . |
8 | These researches and others like them are based on innumerable hours of field study in remote places . |
9 | Erm Of the total of goods that are sold in industrialized countries , such as , that have been manufactured , only three percent of them are made in developing countries . |
10 | It is an important implication of this that they are never a matter of how the things which have them are related to other things . |
11 | Various surface and subsurface crusts are found in many deserts , but it is doubtful how far many of them are forming under present conditions . |
12 | A random sample of herds might indicate that 40% of them are grazing on marginal land ; but if animals were the unit of study we might find only 20% of animals to be on marginal grazing , i.e. the 40% of herds are the smaller ones accounting for only 20% of the cattle . |
13 | These simple propositions are truisms , but their importance and the dangers of departing from them are highlighted by this appeal , which we allowed on 13 March 1992 . |
14 | At the east end , the springmakers work , and the machines required by them are installed in this part , together with an electric welding machine and various bolt and nut machines ; boiler-makers work on the south and west sides , and the forging presses are also laid down here while the north side is mainly occupied by drop hammers . |
15 | Some of them are returned to normal prisons before they ever make the intensive group therapy regime . |
16 | Let me tell you about the Barking women most of them are dead , some of them are working for local authority . |
17 | Those lysines in GH5 with an asterisk above them are protected against chemical modification in chromatin . |
18 | Bingley possesses an enormous fortune and both of them are committed to each other and love one another very deeply . |
19 | Three-quarters of these offences each year are ‘ cleared up ’ , and it transpires that most of them are committed by young males aged between 14 and 29 . |
20 | Another reason why you should never go near the line is that many of them are used by electric trains . |
21 | Rereading More Women than Men , I ask myself each time whether the relations between them are suggested with extreme subtlety , or whether something is lacking . |
22 | Such enterprises now account for more than 60 per cent of industrial employment in countries as far apart as Ghana and Tanzania ; more than half of them are located in small towns and villages , and the extended family is their most important source of labour ; they contribute at least a quarter of total manufacturing output ; and typically they employ between one and ten workers . |
23 | Because there are no constraints placed upon the timing of the volunteer 's activities in such a time-free environment , these are called free-running experiments and the rhythms measured during them are known as free-running rhythms . |
24 | ‘ You think Miller and I are linked in some way ? |
25 | Make sure yours are fitted with adequate locks |
26 | If you buy a different second rod you will have to learn this all over again , but more important , when you are fishing with both rods you will never work with them instinctively . |
27 | If you are scratching in weak lift , you may be able to see which way you have drifted after a few circles . |
28 | Just when you are alerted to one con trick , it seems someone else is waiting around the corner with another devious way of getting you to part with your money . |
29 | Technical Education is an exciting subject and makes use of many of the skills you are taught in other Departments such as Art , Computing , English , Mathematics and the Sciences . |
30 | As a young adult , mate-hunting with the pack , you are regarded with tolerant amusement ; elderly and/or widowed , you are usually afforded a kind of uncommitted sympathy and concern . |