Example sentences of "[pers pn] are [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , I am tired of hearing from experts that so many of the world 's problems are insoluble : poverty , malnutrition , pollution , road accidents , bureaucracy , illiteracy , inflation … there are literally hundreds of such problems , and most of them are getting worse . |
| 2 | In fact over two million people in the UK have the disease , but only a quarter of them are getting any treatment . |
| 3 | The governing body of the agency is the board of directors consisting of eleven members , all appointed by parliament , but five of them are appointed pursuant to the recommendation of the following bodies , namely : the organizations dealing with the environment , one by the trade unions , one by the employers ' organization , one by Social Security , and one by the various organizations presently dealing with state assets . |
| 4 | Well see Carole and them are bringing that back tonight at her erm his son is gon na come back and then |
| 5 | Most of them are riding high on a feeling that all politicians and most of the media now put the environment at or near the top of the political agenda . |
| 6 | The situation with non-US tuna vessels is far worse , as most of them are operating free of any regulations whatsoever . |
| 7 | Sorry One of the other tables you 've got shows you a comparison between the elements which are present in crustal rock and in the sea and from that you can see which ones are a good reflection , I E whi which elements have been transferred to the sea by direct weathering , and which of them are undergoing other processes , either other sources or other sinks . |
| 8 | All those are practical methods , all of them are working , and all of them are delivering better health care and will deliver faster health care . |
| 9 | These three big creatures dominate the composition , but around them are introduced small figures . |
| 10 | Some of them are missing six years and their families do not know if they are alive . ’ |
| 11 | Much to mummy and daddy 's despair , none of them are showing any inclination to . |
| 12 | Again the stone walls are dark and streaked with rain and age , and along them are ranged carved figures , many badly worn and now almost unrecognizable . |
| 13 | Actually , not one of its members is a day over 50 ( although all of them are coming close ) but you might reasonably have expected age to leave Daltrey , Townshend , and Entwistle looking worse than well-travelled . |
| 14 | Negative , extremist , in them are fused sectarian party orthodoxy and individual self-deliverance . |
| 15 | A lot of them are having nervous breakdowns or sort of ruining their family life because |
| 16 | Many of them are having more babies . |
| 17 | A lot of them are studying other things besides Italian and so they take time off to prepare for exams . |
| 18 | Good gracious , ’ she breathed , ‘ if you really do believe that Rob and I are conducting some sultry little affair , do you think that either of us would be fool enough to use an office which adjoins yours ? ’ |
| 19 | The only problem is — Francisco and I are buying this villa from Mum and Dad . |
| 20 | Mrs Gracie and I are leaving those poor children — there is nothing we can do for them , after all — and going back to her house in Highbury . |
| 21 | ‘ Tatum and I are having marital problems , just as many other married couples do , ’ McEnroe said in a statement . |
| 22 | Eventually everyone leaves the room to shower and drink coffee and do all things that people usually do after intercourse — communally in this case — and Samantha and I are left alone . |
| 23 | And theirs are reserved next to you . |
| 24 | In this role you are smoothing ruffled feathers , drawing forth other people 's skills and creative abilities and , at its most basic , helping people to enjoy themselves . |
| 25 | If you are to finish any piece of woodwork you must learn to live with faults and find ways to disguise them . |
| 26 | It is useless if you are fishing any distance from the bank , or even close to the bank but a distance downstream , for in this instance it may attract fish past your baited hook and to the source of the feed . |
| 27 | * You will be classed as disabled if you are registered blind , or receiving Mobility Allowance , Attendance Allowance , Severe Disablement Allowance or Invalidity Benefit . |
| 28 | By using the detachment technique during the course of the regression , it is possible for the hypnotherapist to ensure that you do not suffer in any way — if , for example , you are undergoing past-life regression and you came to a painful and untimely end in an earlier life . |
| 29 | Because it looks like you are advocating supporting agriculture . |
| 30 | You have to be quite clear in your own mind who you are aiming this at and how you are actually going to formulate it . |