Example sentences of "are [adv] [verb] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is plain from Locke 's examples that they ( or , strictly , the things of which they are ideas ) are naturally occurring kinds of material thing or stuff .
2 Several young whites are already serving terms of imprisonment for refusing to serve .
3 Several young whites are already serving terms of imprisonment for refusing to serve .
4 The new regimes of Fansidar ( pyrimethamine + sulphadoxine ) and Maloprim ( pyrimethamine + dapsone ) are already showing signs of failure and virtually only one new synthetic drug , mefloquine ( structurally related to quinine ) remains .
5 Unless a union is negotiating with a monopoly corporation or with companies which are collectively violating standards of decency and justice in their own employment practices , the outcome of such a bargain must of necessity be unjust .
6 The Phoenicians , and in particular the Carthaginians , are still given pride of place in our handbooks for their institutions and their colonization because the Greeks recognized themselves in such things .
7 Detectives are also viewing hours of video tape from cameras covering the grounds of the four offices involved .
8 Unlike previous operating system releases , which are often handcrafted patchworks of technology , Solaris is an assembly of working , tested and quality-checked components , Bourne declares , and the thing undergoes some 40,000 tests .
9 All the C&P businesses are now using Cost of Quality as one of their criteria of success .
10 The reform of both workforce training and of pre-vocational preparation in schools , in order to raise productivity , are now accepted priorities of government policies .
11 Rod , yes I agree with Don , I think if you look at er what the work has gone in er in the fifth year for the last two or three years and the way that subject teachers are now approaching ranks of achievement I do n't see yes it 's .
12 Those curtains are called ‘ precipitation ’ by meteorologists and are fast falling products of condensation in the atmosphere of rain , hail or snow .
13 Both are today showing signs of weakness , but they are still far short of the east-coast mess .
14 Micro-organisms growing in ventilation systems must be carefully controlled , since they are well known causes of ill-health , especially in ‘ sensitive ’ people .
15 Biopsy trauma is itself a stimulus to the synthesis of eicosanoids , but tissue fragments used for short incubation periods overcome the problems of tissue viability and both mechanical and chemical stimulation of synthesis of leukotriene are well established methods of generation under standardised conditions .
16 I would guess that the ‘ something or other ’ are negatively charged ions of fluorine , chlorine and maybe oxygen .
17 In Japan ‘ Grand Champions ’ are so highly prized that they are officially made wards of court , and can not be exported from the country .
18 Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man , yet murder men everywhere they find them , at the corner of every one of their own streets , in all corners of the globe .
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