Example sentences of "and are [adv] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several of the people that I have dived with have been grossly overweight , enjoyed being so , and are completely at home in the water swimming around like walruses . |
| 2 | When people fall short of their standards , and are thereby in breach of their injunctions , somewhere inside they start to feel badly about themselves , and to begin to doubt their worth and acceptability . |
| 3 | On any reasonable system of accounting , the second-hand and rare book departments are losing money and are heavily in debt to the other side of the business — ’ |
| 4 | and are both on holiday at the moment so I am writing in their absence about a recent print job Req No 239886 . |
| 5 | They have effects which would seem to be self-defeating and counter-effective , and are probably in contradiction with the United Nations ’ own principles concerning the freedoms of information and knowledge . |
| 6 | Erosion has also revealed many fossils in the past — the bones of a dinosaur were discovered here in 1913 and are now on view to the general public in the museum at Dorchester . |
| 7 | The discredited test was used since the Seventies to identify impurities , and many owners were given clean bills of health on houses which subsequently were found to be contaminated and are now in danger of collapse . |
| 8 | Domestically inclined spirits , they are happiest when warmly ensconced by the grate or hob over a kitchen fire , and are more at home in the country than in a city or town . |
| 9 | , left , and are certainly on top of it all in the steeping area . |
| 10 | Mr Narita 's acquisitions were seized and are still in storage in Geneva where , thanks to the art market slump , they have lost anything up to 75% of their value . |
| 11 | Your fine capital fully justifies its appellation , the Pearl of the Orient , and the people in its streets seem content and happy and are obviously at ease under your benevolent governance . |
| 12 | Older women are less likely to remarry than younger women ( Ermisch , 1989 , pp. 50–1 ) and are consequently at risk of poverty in old age unless , unusually , they have been able to generate an adequate income through their own resources . |
| 13 | Although the reasons for observed variations in pregnancy and delivery complications by maternal age and parity are not full understood , the fact of these differentials remains , and when women are in the very early or late childbearing ages , of zero or high parity , they are at risk and are therefore in need of care and of health and family planning information and service . |