Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [am/are] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cultures sons are given priority , others give daughters priority , following the McIver principle ‘ when you educate a man you educate an individual : when you educate a woman you educate a whole family ’ . |
| 2 | Southampton University researchers are testing flypaper impregnated with a sex stimulant and insecticide . |
| 3 | 4m homes are to get water meters. |
| 4 | With their players ' salaries soaring , baseball clubs are pleading poverty |
| 5 | Until 10 May , the Di Meo brothers are presenting ink drawings and gouaches produced by Joseph Suma in the years 1924 to 1970 , thereby supplementing the retrospective being staged by the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris . |
| 6 | It was not the boat aspect of his idea , rowing boats are permitted on the lake , but some of the club members are saying echo sounders are unsporting . |
| 7 | Canadian group Friends of the Rain Forest is organising a boycott of Petro-Canada , which has an oil exploration concession in Burma , saying that " oil investment dollars are helping turn mainland Asia 's last significant forested region into a wasteland . |
| 8 | COLLEGE students are raising money for a hospital in a battle of the sexes . |
| 9 | The letters , copies of which were obtained by Far Eastern Economic Review , show that systematic breaches of forestry and revenue laws are taking place . |
| 10 | Even if play areas are created off-street , the impression must not be given that the rest of the street is not intended for playing children . |
| 11 | The wing chun butterfly knives are called baht jam do , which translates roughly as ‘ eight-cutting broadswords ’ . |
| 12 | But those big percentage reductions are taking place at a point on the network where the southern bypass has already reduced the flows , so th those parts of the network would be much less in need of relief . |
| 13 | RENT arrears among council tenants are reaching record levels , mainly because of rent increases and housing benefit reductions imposed by the Government in April last year , according to the Audit Commission for Local Authorities . |
| 14 | COUNCIL officers are taking action to keep noise down at a ‘ rave ’ concert tomorrow . |
| 15 | It 's a place where history mingles with modern consumerism and where education as well as the weekly shopping chores are made fun and exciting . |
| 16 | Specialist practitioners are obtaining membership of the Law Society 's Personal Injuries Panel . |
| 17 | The man who put the K-factor into TV They do n't know it , but a group of Kilsyth women are helping shape our viewing . |
| 18 | PENTAGON budget officials are contemplating cancellation of a hi-tech joint Navy-Air Force electronic jamming system scheduled to be fitted in more than 2,000 new fighter and attack planes . |
| 19 | I thought everyone was going to recognise me on the street , ’ Now his favourite leisure activities are watching television — ‘ I call it my sofa therapy ’ — and having friends over for dinner . |
| 20 | Dodging the Halloween parade in Greenwich Village heralds a fruitful evening beginning around 9pm at CBGB 's , where the latest Sub Pop scallywags are holding court . |
| 21 | Be it of bacteria , protists , insects , molluscs , fish , fungi , plants or plant fossils , a series of global synonymized taxon checklists are making progress . |
| 22 | It is still confined to a sort of charts-land ghetto , even while the record companies are heaping praise ( and new offices ) on their lucrative Nashville subsidiaries . |
| 23 | The thinking behind the MMC report is that cash buyers are subsidising credit card users because prices in shops and restaurants reflect the charge levied by the credit card companies on the retailers . |
| 24 | A number of CD-Rom producers are using QuickTime to add video clips to their discs . |
| 25 | ‘ Many hill sheep are in very poor condition and unless there is a dramatic upturn in the weather , hill farmers are looking disaster straight in the face . ’ |
| 26 | Ron Grant : ‘ hill farmers are looking disaster in the face ’ |
| 27 | DRUG-BUSTING Customs officers are targeting border areas in the war against smugglers . |
| 28 | Different tube diameters are taken care of by reducing collars in the end-caps . |
| 29 | Fears of mortgage defaults are adding pressure to an already depressed property market , while reports of industry feeling the squeeze proliferated . |
| 30 | In Canada , thousands of maple trees are showing damage from air pollution . |