Example sentences of "[pron] are [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were fifteen sisters here , but sadly most of them are gone now the old originals |
| 2 | The three of them are sitting round a low table with three cups of coffee , and Paul is trying to entertain the visitor . |
| 3 | Leeds boss Howard Wilkinson whose own title defence is in tatters , admitted : ‘ There are eight or so teams up there , but there is no indication that any of them are putting together the kind of run that looks ominous ‘ Blackburn showed the sort of confidence against us that comes from the feeling that you have got a chance . |
| 4 | On the plus side , the arrival of VAT on domestic supplies should encourage people to think about saving energy in the home , thereby reducing the demand on coal , oil and gas and , therefore , cutting emissions of carbon dioxide ( CO ) which are pushing up the global temperature . |
| 5 | Currently , the average UK company pension fund is invested 80 per cent in equities ( 60 per cent UK ) and and only 9 per cent in bonds — in sharp contrast to US and European funds which are invested about a third in bonds . |
| 6 | Roodepoort of Hyperama 's car park is an arena — there are others , if you know where to look — in which are played out the sad , savage realities of modern South Africa . |
| 7 | The skylights in the galleries admit light through angled screens which are changed twice a year , at the equinoxes , and cut out direct rays to spread a diffuse illumination through the rooms . |
| 8 | Where gas fires are going to be installed , flues can be lined with flexible metal tube liners which are inserted down the chimney , but their life may be shortened by contaminating acids , formed by condensation in the flue combining with the carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide contained in the flue gases . |
| 9 | ‘ It can be difficult to make your child take lengthy courses of treatments such as antibiotics when the average treatment can last for seven days — an eternity to a child However , newer , shorter-course antibiotic treatments are now available from your doctor , which are taken once a day for between three to five days . |
| 10 | Yeah , we 're talking about children who you know thirteen , fourteen , fifteen , which are growing up a bit , but we get them altered and we get them made for them , we used to get them made and er still do I think . |
| 11 | It bursts at internals to release into the atmosphere an enormous number of rusty-red spores which are carried on the breeze to germinate in distant damp timber , starting the process afresh . |
| 12 | The Sunderland 76ers , who are surging up the Carlsberg League table , almost came a cropper at the Granby Halls . |
| 13 | In Flockhart v. Robinson Lord Goddard C.J. said that it is ‘ not a mere body of persons ; it is a body of persons who are moving along a route . ’ |
| 14 | Office , who are setting up a permanent acid rain monitor as well , so then we 'd have to , so then I 've got to get back in touch with that person . |
| 15 | They were shown a video about the department and introduced to members of the team who are setting up the service . |
| 16 | Some of the villages on the edge of the Baronnies look all too spruce , as if the locals had by now given way completely to immigrants wealthier than themselves , who are buying up the old houses and adding new , sometimes crassly intrusive ones . |
| 17 | HOSPITALS , community centres and local charities are set to reap the rewards from the work of local youths who are taking up the Post Office Community Challenge . |
| 18 | Ca n't help thinking that they are on the right track and it 's we who are barking up the wrong tree . |
| 19 | I think that if today we can give a little help to those who are carrying on the race the money will not be wasted , ’ ( House of Commons Debate , Vol. 300 , col. 1634 ) . |
| 20 | Therefore , if such a cynical interpretation of the motivation of those committed professionals who are carrying forward the first wave of trusts were to apply , it would be irrelevant because the resources are ring fenced by the region and the trusts would be at no disadvantage . |
| 21 | That cynical interpretation of the commitment of all those dedicated professionals who are carrying forward the first wave of trusts is so bitterly resented by the health service , which is why the Labour party has lost all credibility with the health professionals . |
| 22 | For many beginners , reaching , turning and often falling is what an afternoon 's windsurfing consists of , which , although it is comforting and fun to be with the dozens of others who are doing exactly the same , does n't lead to much improvement in their sailing . |
| 23 | The problem 's been around for a long time , but what 's new is that in an age when women are releasing themselves from stereotypical roles of submission , it 's the men still locked into emotionally repressive macho fantasies who are having all the problems . |
| 24 | We 've been taken on as a whole gang with lots of others , to make roads for those who are chopping down the trees in Wychwood Forest . |
| 25 | This leads record companies to treat musicians not as wage-labourers but as contracted ‘ artists ’ who are paid not a fixed sum for their labour-time but in royalties , in proportion to their success ( ibid : 130 ) . |
| 26 | Eleven managers , who are selling around a third of their shares , will be in line for the windfall . |
| 27 | What about all those young talents who are drawn here every Sunday ? |
| 28 | A plan to restore the windows at a cost of DFl.1.2 million has been approved by the State Office for Monuments who are putting up the greater part of the necessary funds . |
| 29 | If you are touring down a remote gorge do you choose a technique which gives maximum force and a high risk of injury or would you prefer a slightly less powerful stroke and a reduced risk of shoulder dislocation ? |
| 30 | ‘ Unless you are setting up a breeding stud , all pet toms should be castrated , ’ is a typical comment . |