Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] are [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Where we are now ahm there are all ahm either very young or very old .
2 I very much hope that the work that we are already doing will lead to initiatives being taken by those countries as a result of the guidance that we have given at local government , as well as national , level .
3 Well the position which I 've been told by my company directors is that we are still trading , er a er an administration order has been taken out and we are continually , continuing to trade and er that er rules .
4 There is good potential for straw as a fuel source , so long as we continue the important research and development programme that we are currently commissioning .
5 So I feel that our power has grown very much and that we are now hand in hand with the comrades in Namibia .
6 He was by then on friendly terms with several of the dancers , and had made a pact with Jasmine Honoré ‘ that we are now brother and sister ’ .
7 An agency such as the hon. Gentleman suggests would do little more than we are already doing unless it were funded and empowered to make grants and loans which , as he will realise , is not a practical suggestion , because it would mean singling out a particular sector of British industry .
8 But although they are largely self sufficient , needless to say livelihoods in these sort of conditions and communities are on a knife edge .
9 But Mr. Holman is right to point out that they are strictly obiter and were in neither case supported by any corresponding observation on behalf of the other members of the court .
10 In other words , we need to recognize that many apparently independent units of production are , without being legally owned subsidiaries , so dominated through subcontracting and purchasing arrangements , that they are effectively part of a single unit of capitalist production .
11 The human spirit is trundled on to reassure them that they are still party to the heroic , which cynical people might think has departed the suburbs some time ago .
12 People in the street must be approached and told that they are now editor of The Times for a month .
13 The family member will say that these things should help , that they are only part of normal family commitment and civilised behaviour and that , if he or she did not do these things , then the primary sufferer might die .
14 Dr Dowling believes that part of the reason why house officers are often so impotent in hospital politics is that they are essentially migrant labour — rarely in one place for more than six months .
15 The sympathetic nerves control the adrenals ' activity , so they are really part of the same system .
16 Yep , yep erm these officers are all trained in , in fire prevention work erm at the Fire Service 's technical college at Morton Marsh , and er they practise those skills they learn there over many years erm I 'm looking back , I mean the time that I spent in training schools and er and in , in the job er I suppose when you total it all up it must be two or three years away from home really , er in courses you know , in my day we went away on fire prevention training classes six months , six months ' course was the , so you went away to the Fire Service college which in those days was at Dorking , a lovely place in Dorking , and you did six months there solid , and then nowadays about thirteen weeks , the courses run about thirteen weeks , and you are constantly fire , fire officers from the ranks of erm probably a Sub Officer , leading fireman in some places , but Sub Officer onwards and particularly Station Officer up to the more senior ranks are away on courses regularly for , it 's really updating people erm new legislation coming in , new techniques coming in , erm which have to be these people have to be updated so they are very well trained , erm more so than most local authority people I would think , fire , fire officers are , erm purely because the job is such a wide range of , of things to deal with .
17 And as a spokeswoman from Relate points out , ‘ If you are always rowing , you are using up time you could spend having fun together . ’
18 But that 's only if you are actually part of the union .
19 If we want children , then our wage will stop when the children are young and we are home fulltime .
20 In my tank I have one male and two females and they are always breeding .
21 says the Marquis ' ‘ They were not convinced , but the Japanese took up the idea a few years ago and they are now industry leaders . ’
22 It 's been a good run and they are still top of the Premiership table but they hardly looked champions today .
23 He has a master , and work to do , and they are still lambing .
24 In the modern world , constitutions are almost ubiquitous and they are indeed part of the tribute which vice pays to virtue .
25 At times you appear to be over-optimistic , unrealistic and inclined to put the cart before the horse , but you are also kind , caring and generous to a fault .
26 Your firm might have problems but you are still solvent , that 's more than I am . ’
27 So do bear those things in mind , because part of today and yesterday has been saying to you , how you can present yourselves to radio and T V in such a way that you 're not only experts in your specific subjects , but you are sufficiently expert in the techniques that go to make up good radio , that people will say , ‘ Let's have so-and-so back again .
28 Another programme — TEXT ANALYSIS ( TA ) — can reverse your dictionary for you , but unless you are fairly expert in the use of computers we would advise leaving the reversal until someone who is expert can set up TA for you .
29 Subroutines are usually written to be " transparent " to the calling routine ; that is , the processor registers such as accumulators and condition codes can be assumed to be unaltered by the subroutine call , unless they are explicitly part of the subroutine linkage .
30 They exist in a mirror world where they are suspended in a liquid like molten glass , and these images when seen from the mundane are brilliant but they are only mirror images of reality .
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