Example sentences of "[pers pn] are [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grass and reeds around me are flattened under the sudden , overnight fall of snow . |
| 2 | The hypotheses , formed after his observations , are many ; but most of them are related to the empirical findings of a long tradition and the world is spared a too individualistic interpretation of some of Nature 's more self-willed manifestations . |
| 3 | Lying behind my summary evaluations of these theories is the conviction that most of them are fixated around the unhelpful idea that hegemon states exploit other states . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I 'll tell ye — nine hundred and ninety-nine of them are glued to the Holy Writ of Economic Theory ; the remaining one , which ought to be fixed on Ireland , is blind . ’ |
| 5 | Ways of using them are discussed in the next three chapters . |
| 6 | It is for the security force commanders to ensure that all the resources available to them are used with the maximum effectiveness . |
| 7 | ‘ What sometimes appear to be new strategies decentralisation , management by objectives , consultative supervision , ‘ democratic ’ leadership are usually but old wine in new bottles , because the procedures derived to implement them are derived from the same inadequate assumptions about human nature … |
| 8 | This should not suggest that my wife and I are cut from the American kind of Anglophilic chintz that may of you like to poke fun at . |
| 9 | So if you are dismissed before the agreed age , you might have a claim for breach of contract , but not for unfair dismissal if you are over the normal retiring age for colleagues in your class of work . |
| 10 | Whether you are fascinated by the unusual , or enchanted by sheer beauty , there is something for everyone here . |
| 11 | we stand in the hall , your fabulous eyes searched mine - read my eyes , one last and wonderful caress , shy love , love you are gone into the early morning dark night-rainbows dazzle everywhere you have been |
| 12 | As you may be aware , elements of the corporate financial services work we may do for you are regulated under the Financial Services Act ( ‘ FSA ’ ) by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales ( ‘ ICAEW ’ ) as investment business ( ‘ regulated work ’ ) . |
| 13 | YOU ARE INVITED TO THE BIGGEST CANINE BIRTHDAY PARTY EVER |
| 14 | All the mitochondria in you are descended from the small population of mitochondria that travelled from your mother in her egg . |
| 15 | You are locked into the current interest rate , for better or worse . |
| 16 | For example , suppose that you are presented with the following passage , used by Johnston et al. : |
| 17 | Those lips seemed to phrase words intended for himself alone , kissing these words into the soft matter of his brain : ’ Though you are cast into the ultimate heat sink , you hover indestructibly . |
| 18 | In August it was remarked in the Commons that , ‘ Wherever you go now in every constituency you are met by the aged people and their organizations . ’ |
| 19 | Being unemployed also means that you are deprived of the social contacts and involvement in collective activity that goes with paid employment ; you lack its external stimulus to activity and time-structure ; and you lack the status and sense of value provided by a job and expressed in terms of social esteem as well as money . |
| 20 | Going by your ‘ concern ’ for the ‘ targets of racist violence ’ , not to speak of your capacity to understand what constitutes racism or why the ‘ ANL and the ARA ’ are both anti-black , I would not be surprised if one day you are hauled before the black community as a prime suspect involved in a series of racist attacks against the image of the black person in the street . |
| 21 | MEN open your eyes and see how you are chained to the capitalist system by the needs of your wives and children . |
| 22 | IN YOUR OWN INTEREST YOU ARE ADVISED IN THE STRONGEST TERMS TO CHECK WITH OPERATORS THE INFORMATION GIVEN HEREIN AND ANY OTHER MATTERS WHICH YOU WISH TO RAISE BEFORE MAKING YOUR BOOKING . |
| 23 | With a monochrome viewfinder. use ‘ auto ’ or remember to check that you are set to the correct preset . |
| 24 | ( Unless of course , you are booked for the last sitting ! ) |
| 25 | Just as he purposed to save you , so his perfect will and , and desire is that you receive , that you are baptized in the Holy Spirit . |
| 26 | You will see a dialog box counting up the number of matches , before you are returned to the original display showing files at the left , and details at the right . |
| 27 | You are surrounded by the latest edition of the N C V O News , so you know that this is the last occasion . |
| 28 | Here you are surrounded by the natural attractions of the region and have your own fully-equipped home from home . |
| 29 | At the same time these results are likely to be slow , and if we are right in our conclusion that we are faced at the present time with a certain amount of abnormal employment of a quasi-permanent character , then it is not sufficient to solely rely on the gradual improvement of productive efficiency . |
| 30 | So we are faced with the amazing fact that neither the insistence on English superiority nor a savage level of English military aggression was enough to produce widespread , let alone total , resistance by a people who for well over two centuries had determinedly and successfully resisted both . |