Example sentences of "[pers pn] are [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact over two million people in the UK have the disease , but only a quarter of them are getting any treatment . |
| 2 | Well see Carole and them are bringing that back tonight at her erm his son is gon na come back and then |
| 3 | Much to mummy and daddy 's despair , none of them are showing any inclination to . |
| 4 | Many of them are having more babies . |
| 5 | 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 ? ’ |
| 6 | The only problem is — Francisco and I are buying this villa from Mum and Dad . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If you are to finish any piece of woodwork you must learn to live with faults and find ways to disguise them . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If it seems you are training hard — perhaps you are fatigued all the time — you are probably training at too high a level . |
| 12 | Let me just suggest to you that you are sending all the wrong signals on women , on Party constitution , on economic matters , on policy matters , the modernizers have lost the impetus , they 're sending the wrong signals . |
| 13 | Living in a totalitarian system , he said , ‘ you are taught all the time that it 's unbreakable . |
| 14 | Say you are leaving some to a named person , you have left that person , say ten percent . |
| 15 | Some of them are reluctant to ask visiting relatives , who may already be doing shopping for them , to run extra errands , such as taking prescriptions to the chemist or clothes to the launderette or dry cleaners , changing their library books and collecting their pension ; so it is always as well to check to make sure that you are meeting these needs , or arranging for someone else to do so . |
| 16 | so , so you are , you are encouraging that and presumably if anybody sets anything up they 're going to be able to keep it . |
| 17 | Well for most people erm I mean they say to me , I do n't want to be the richest man at Millford Hill , in other words I do n't want to save in retirement indefinitely , but you are intending some capital growth as well , cos if you do n't have capital growth , you do n't protect your investment . |
| 18 | ‘ Miss Kenton , I believe you are according this matter an urgency it hardly merits . ’ |
| 19 | It may be difficult to keep three courses within the limits , especially if you are eating another meal during the day , but you can certainly try ! |
| 20 | If you are eating enough of these kinds of food to maintain appropriate weight ( or , if you are overweight , to lose weight slowly ) then you should automatically be getting enough vitamins and minerals . |
| 21 | If you are a solicitor or an overseas lawyer wanting to be admitted to the English Bar ; if you are seeking some reduction of the normal pupillage requirements or certain other exemptions from the regulations ; if you are applying to become an employed pupil-master — you must apply to the Joint Regulations Committee ( JRC ) . |
| 22 | If you are fitting several lights ( downlighters or eyeball spots , say ) , run this cable to the nearest fitting , and then run cable from this to the next nearest , and so on to the last . |
| 23 | The commissioners ' Instructions to the Watch in 1817 were similar : ‘ You are to apprehend all night-walkers , rogues , vagabonds , and other disorderly persons , disturbing the public … you must be very circumspect … and not wantonly or inconsiderately apprehend persons of a different description . ’ |
| 24 | While you are watching these bones in the water , you must on no consideration take your eyes off it . |
| 25 | If you are watching some highly developed dance form , or some elaborately staged drama , or listening to highly developed music , or looking at highly developed sculpture or painting , you have at least some given mode of access to each art . |
| 26 | Listen to his way with Chopin 's instruction la melodia tenuta e legata in the E minor , Op. 25 No. 5 , or the urgency ( rather than mere proficiency ) with which the notorious thirds of Op. 25 No. 6 are propelled , and you may well feel that you are hearing this music for the first time . |
| 27 | In the next verse you hum instead of singing ‘ shoulders ’ until in the fourth verse you are humming all the way to the last two lines . |
| 28 | If you are earning more money and you hav n't got enough points , they could move you from a specialist department to a police station . |
| 29 | So , if you are experiencing this problem , check for voltage leakage from every possible source . |
| 30 | It can be carried out at any time when you feel the need , for example , when you are near anybody with a cold or ‘ flu ; when you are experiencing any form of fear ; when others are indulging in negative emotions ; in noisy surroundings ; first thing in the morning and last thing at night ; after meditating or giving intuitive aromatherapy massage . |