Example sentences of "[pers pn] are [verb] that [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , as you all know , the festive season is fast approaching and in Glasgow the Committee will be helping to sell raffle tickets to raise funds for a good cause , every year we hold a raffle on the day of the Christmas lunch and we are hoping that this year we will raise a substantial amount . |
| 2 | We are assured that both MPs retained a smiling dignity throughout . |
| 3 | Note that we are assuming that both sets of firms sell their output at the price p t and that they have identical real wage elasticities of demand ( - α ) : that is , the firms are identical in every respect other than the timing of their wage contracts . |
| 4 | In this sense we are arguing that all accounts , including those that aspire to academic objectivity , are structured by the social contexts in which they are generated . |
| 5 | Where some women are free to make vows of chastity , we are reminded that all women should be free to refuse men access to them . |
| 6 | A problem with this idea is of course that most dreams are not remembered , so that even if solutions to problems are achieved during dreams they can not be regarded as adaptive , unless we are to believe that these solutions are somehow incorporated unconsciously . |
| 7 | We are saying that some populations ( i.e. sexual ones ) evolve faster than others , and hence will survive when others go extinct . |
| 8 | We are saying that this applicant does not do that |
| 9 | Oh , that too erm that we are , had , if we are saying that this evening we are looking at communications and different elements of it , I think this is an area which if ever there was an example of how perhaps not to do it how to blow it askew , it 's probably the best one we 've had in , in decades . |
| 10 | We are told that such schools will be given funds with which to buy back LEA services — if they choose . |
| 11 | What Bet and Alec thought of a packed house replete with Manc ravers is anyone 's guess but we are told that this event , which was a joint Most Excellent and A Bit Ginger promotion , had the Mancunian cognoscenti rocking over the most famous beermats in Britain . |
| 12 | Sometimes historians assume when they are writing that this context already exists in the mind of the reader ( e.g. that you are familiar with a particular person or idea ; that you have background knowledge of a topic ) . |
| 13 | They are saying that such information will only realise its value if it is available to the person , at the point , at the time where the strategic decision to act upon that information can best be made . |
| 14 | They are told that this sort of question or embellishment is inappropriate . |