Example sentences of "are [noun pl] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our impulses , desires and Dreams are fingers pointing at the moon . |
| 2 | For building societies there are rules dealing with the translation of foreign currency amounts . |
| 3 | It can not be , he says , that ‘ figure , motion , and the rest of the primary or original qualities do exist without the mind … [ while ] colours , sounds , heat , cold , and such like secondary qualities … are sensations existing in the mind alone ’ , for ‘ extension , figure , and motion , abstracted from all other qualities , are inconceivable ’ . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ A senior partner of a national firm of insolvency practitioners recently said , and I quote his very words , ‘ we are parasites living on the misfortune of others ’ . ’ |
| 5 | Also , the roof is leaking in several places , there are cracks appearing on the parapet , which need , even to my eyes , need to be filled . |
| 6 | Mr Skinner insisted : ‘ There will always be a need for socialism , whether in Britain or anywhere else , so long as there are millionaires living in the lap of luxury and other people living in cardboard boxes , so long as we have a system which allows the poor countries of the world to hand over $50m to the rich . ’ |
| 7 | Are things developing on the promotion front Trevor , as regard the possibility of going up ? |
| 8 | ‘ Are things growing in the garden where he lives ? ’ |
| 9 | Are farmers responding to the food needs of the '90s ? |
| 10 | ‘ But there is no doubt that there are problems arising from the build-up of surplus stock of some net titles , and we are conscious that traditional methods like the National Book Sale now seem inadequate . |
| 11 | There are provisions dealing with the repayment of loans paid to the settlor. ( a ) Loans paid off Where the capital sum paid to the settlor is a sum paid by way of loan and the whole of that loan is repaid , no part of that sum shall be treated as the settlor 's income for any year of assessment after that in which the repayment occurs ( TA 1988 , s677(4) ( a ) ) . |
| 12 | The two latter quantities are constants depending on the material under study . |
| 13 | There are still those seamen ( of Aegina 's permanent population of 11,000 , several hundred work in the merchant navy or are ex-sailors living on the island ) . |
| 14 | What damage are tourists doing to the scene shown in the photograph ? |
| 15 | Syphilis can be acquired by the unborn foetus from its mother if she has the infection and there are treponemes circulating in the blood stream . |
| 16 | It should therefore be clear that there are factors operating within the family and the society which contribute to this pathological state . |
| 17 | And there are others lurking in the wings : Woodland , Mackay , Senior , Fowler , Tracy , Foley , McWhinney , Ogle , Riley , O'Malley , Ratcliffe and Moore . |
| 18 | There are Hearthwares preparing for the journey even now . ’ |
| 19 | It has been shown in some animal species that there are nerves running from the eyes to the SCN . |