Example sentences of "[pron] are [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The city 's council has decided that it no longer wants an unlimited number of gypsies or travellers , many of whom are using illegal pitches , descending on the city . |
| 2 | In fact over two million people in the UK have the disease , but only a quarter of them are getting any treatment . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | These three big creatures dominate the composition , but around them are introduced small figures . |
| 6 | Some of them are missing six years and their families do not know if they are alive . ’ |
| 7 | Much to mummy and daddy 's despair , none of them are showing any inclination to . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Negative , extremist , in them are fused sectarian party orthodoxy and individual self-deliverance . |
| 10 | A lot of them are having nervous breakdowns or sort of ruining their family life because |
| 11 | Many of them are having more babies . |
| 12 | A lot of them are studying other things besides Italian and so they take time off to prepare for exams . |
| 13 | The only problem is — Francisco and I are buying this villa from Mum and Dad . |
| 14 | ‘ Tatum and I are having marital problems , just as many other married couples do , ’ McEnroe said in a statement . |
| 15 | Avoid non-brewed condiments , which are diluted acetic acid coloured with caramel and without the rounded acidity of a true vinegar . |
| 16 | This is because the energy for neuroses comes from the sexual instincts which are seeking private gratifications , rather than the combination of erotic and egoistic elements found in the social impulses . |
| 17 | But there is growing consensus that the broader functions of a medical education , which are assuming greater importance in the undergraduate curriculum , are not so easy to learn from someone untrained in educational method . |
| 18 | For the more environmentally sensitive areas which are assuming more importance , the |
| 19 | Both the enlarged access facility and the supplementary financing facility are available to members of the IMF only in conjunction with the use of resources in the upper credit tranches ( i.e. they are special arrangements when normal credit lines are insufficient ) and are for countries which are facing serious payments imbalances that are large in relation to their quotas . |
| 20 | Other winners in the awards ceremony seen as a pointer to the Hollywood Oscars which are announced next week included Silence of the Lambs star Anthony Hopkins . |
| 21 | All are independent , except two which are maintained voluntary-aided schools . |
| 22 | However , the heart 's own oxygen supply is not taken from the blood which is continually being pumped through it to service the rest of the body , but from separate little arteries which are called coronary arteries . |
| 23 | We have now moved on from looking at syllables to looking at words , and we will consider certain well-known English words that can be pronounced in two different ways , which are called strong forms and weak forms . |
| 24 | DNA has effects upon bodies , upon eye colour , hair crinkliness , strength of aggressive behaviour and thousands of other attributes , all of which are called phenotypic effects . |
| 25 | The following notes have been reproduced in full by courtesy of the London Chamber of Commerce which are organising this mission . |
| 26 | Since , after normal ovulation , between 6 and 12 eggs are recovered , success is measured by the number which are undergoing mitotic division and the number of divisions which can be analysed . |
| 27 | I beg to move , That this House deplores the Government 's economic policies , which have caused the severe and continuing recession and which are damaging all parts of the economy and all areas of the nation ; and calls upon the Government to initiate without delay an investment based recovery including financial incentives for investment in manufacturing , tax credits for the enhancement of technology , assistance for regional economic development and a major programme of education and training to tackle Britain 's continuing skills crisis . |
| 28 | The party leadership faces unrest over the poll tax , water and electricity privatisation and the changes to the health service , in addition to rising mortgage rates , which are damaging Tory support . |
| 29 | Some of the words listed by Hewitt are in fact just special uses of existing British English words , which are given new meaning within the youth culture : e.g. hard , soff ( soft ) , dread , star , sweet . |
| 30 | The microeconomic imperfections which are given special attention are imperfect information ( eg firms ' inability to monitor accurately the productivities of their employees ) , imperfect competition ( eg collective bargaining ) , and various transactions costs ( eg the costs of hiring , training , and firing employees ) . |