Example sentences of "[pron] are the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , the ones who get me are the purposeful ones who are out to pull you down a peg or two when you were quite happy with the peg you were on . |
| 2 | All around the oval churchyard can be found the sunken tracks that were once the village streets and paths and raised above them are the grassy mounds that cover the foundations of houses and cottages long since gone . |
| 3 | The most powerful ‘ lessons in wizardry ’ are those taken for the learning of shamanic powers , and in the Piaroa theory of knowledge , men who do undergo them are the best hunters in Piaroaland , even if they rarely hunt ( Overing 1988 ) . |
| 4 | Gone too from both of them are the dark circles under the eyes , the complexions grey with tiredness and lined with worry . |
| 5 | Tristan has two near neighbours , both uninhabited , Nightingale and Inaccessible , and a third a couple of hundred kilometres further south , Gough Island ; all of them are the battered remains of extinct volcanoes . |
| 6 | All that 's left for them are the smallest triumphs , revenges or consolations — together with a fascination for the England of 15 or 20 years ago . |
| 7 | Below them are the four archdeacons ( Wiltshire , Sarum , Dorset and Sherborne ) who , Bishop John says , are ‘ key people in the modern church ’ . |
| 8 | The Kuwaiti population is about one point seven million erm about six to seven hundred thousand of them are the Kuwaiti nationals . |
| 9 | Suspensions and the risk of them are the common denominators of today 's European proceedings . |
| 10 | Not all of them are the high mileage though are they ? |
| 11 | ‘ Apart from a few people at the Kremlin and at Number Ten , you and I are the only people who know of the situation . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Ilona and I are the new Adam and Eve , ’ he tells me . |
| 13 | cos Edmund and I are the same age |
| 14 | ‘ Single ’ individual organisms such as ourselves are the ultimate embodiment of many such mergers . |
| 15 | Nonetheless , theirs are the coarsest images of the first generation of LC TVs . |
| 16 | These animals were also communicating with each other , but we were only able to catch the deep rumbles which are the upper harmonies of their conversation . |
| 17 | He is actually a very good drama teacher , and because ALL drama lessons are practical they make a welcome change from the routines of writing , reading and watching videos which are the usual diet in most other subjects . |
| 18 | Zeki 's results would never have been obtained if he had continued to study V4 cells using spectrally pure light sources that are the tradition in visual system physiology , rather than coloured objects which are the normal source of our colour perception . |
| 19 | Their games are , in fact , nothing more or less than a rehearsal prior to the performance of the activities which are the serious business of all the members of the Gikuyu tribe . |
| 20 | I think the statutory services which are the registering bodies also have a role to play in that . |
| 21 | Which are the key groups that compete for resources in the budgetary process ? |
| 22 | It is one thing to speak of involving the student , " teaching concepts rather than facts " , " practising skills " and all the other catch phrases of educational discourse ; it is quite another thing to put them into practice , to find out how to involve the student , to elucidate which concepts are of most importance and which facts are necessary to their understanding , and particularly to distinguish which are the key skills and how they are to be most usefully practised with these students in this situation . |
| 23 | ‘ Elements ’ are precise descriptions of what people need to be able to do to be considered competent and have associated with them ‘ performance criteria ’ , which are the key indicators used to judge the individual 's level of performance . |
| 24 | all of which are the earliest ancestors of the family . |
| 25 | This relates to the two aggregates which are the primary concern of accruals accounting and about which cash accounting has nothing to say , namely , capital and income . |
| 26 | But it is the differences which are the primary consideration in premarriage counselling . |
| 27 | It governs the behavior of transistors and integrated circuits , which are the essential components of electronic devices such as televisions and computers , and is also the basis of modern chemistry and biology . |
| 28 | Water pumped out of building excavations or road works , for example , may be permitted to flow directly into a neighbouring watercourse without a requirement that any solids settle out in the lagoons which are the typical method of purifying similar discharges more permanent in character . |
| 29 | ‘ They will have the same powers as the larger UDCs , but above all they will create the business-friendly environment and single minded approach which are the necessary preconditions for regeneration . ’ |
| 30 | He called for responsive adaptation to the new post-war society in which the WEA 's ‘ primary function to cultivate powers and to form intellectual habits which are the necessary basis of good citizenship and social activity … ’ should be pursued . |