Example sentences of "[pers pn] are [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The groundwork principles are a necessary element in the art of kung fu and they are usually taught towards the end of training , since many of them are at times contradictory to the normal rules governing training . |
| 2 | By 1900 however , the birth rate was plunging as couples chose to have fewer children , just as improved health had also begun to have a marked impact ; and it is the combination in the twentieth century of a now almost stagnant population of small families with a new fall in death rates which explains the striking rise of over-sixty-year-olds to form over 20 per cent of our population today and why , more than in any previous generation , such a high proportion of them are without children . |
| 3 | Significantly , most of them are by Americans , for it is in the American academy that the pressure for change , for constantly new forms of newness , is greatest . |
| 4 | Four of them are in cities of what you might regard as being of particular interest — Tripoli , Beirut , Damascus and Baghdad . ’ |
| 5 | All of them are in polysyllables before the single nasal and before nasal clusters . |
| 6 | These cut across the major and minor boundaries in that some of them are in concentrations greater and some lesser one part per million . |
| 7 | Here S. O. Letterman and I are at odds . |
| 8 | The aim of this chapter is to provide help in making your home secure , comfortable , economical and beautiful whether you are with friends or alone . |
| 9 | Suppose you are on drugs and you know what they are doing to your body but you ca n't break the habit . |
| 10 | Perhaps one a week when you are on afternoons . |
| 11 | you are on steroids , or on any other drug or medical treatment affecting immunity . |
| 12 | you are on steroids , or on any other drug or medical treatment affecting immunity . |
| 13 | You are at times an exceptionally fiery-headed young woman . ’ |
| 14 | This batch I am sending you are for keeps , if you can find a place for them ! |
| 15 | If you are between lovers — ’ |
| 16 | If you are in Windows you will be returned to the desktop and if you are not nothing will happen . |
| 17 | If you are in arrears they can tell you the best way of tackling the problem as well as helping to work out your budget . |
| 18 | So you are in arrears , we 've told you before |
| 19 | Why , the two of you are like recluses out of some dated European movie . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You are like children playing a game . |
| 21 | This is the sort of situation which leads to our distinguishing ‘ ourselves as we feel ourselves to be ’ and ‘ ourselves as we are to others ’ . |
| 22 | We are not against unions , we are for unions , unions can be very useful not only for their members but also for the management , we recognise that . |
| 23 | All of us have an informal way of speaking when we are with friends and in social settings . |
| 24 | Just think how tangled up we are with pigs , how we love to hate ourselves as pigs , and how easy it is to turn a pig into a person . |
| 25 | ‘ Here we are at loggerheads with the rival practice , and I 've gone and fallen in love with Robert 's assistant and he with me . |
| 26 | Mrs. Campbell hoped that a tide waiter 's post might be found for the man , but there was more to it than charity , for , as she advised her cousin , William Anderson 's brother was a rich baker who had lately filled the office of deacon convener of trades in Stirling , and ‘ as he has a near connection with severalls in the present management I wish if possible you could fall on a way to get this small thing for him , it wou 'd make a noise amongest the folks to see that we are at pains to do for them ’ . |
| 27 | Finally , we are at pains to stress that , despite all the arrows in Figure 1.2 , we do not believe that human actions and beliefs are mechanistically determined . |
| 28 | It saw itself as primarily a teaching institution and Lindop underlined that ‘ we are at pains to ensure that we recruit staff who share our view of the primacy of teaching ’ , and the Polytechnic was requiring new and inexperienced staff to attend an in-service training programme of about 250 hours in their first year . |
| 29 | So , if gives evidence , having become competent because he has pleaded guilty , erm , then we can cross-examine him , but we are in difficulties if we then bring up his previous convictions attack his credibility . |
| 30 | ‘ We are in discussions , ’ said an ABC spokesman . |