Example sentences of "[conj] are [verb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether creole varieties are termed ‘ dialects of ’ English or are regarded as languages in their own right is a Political and ideological question , which concerns the social identity of groups of speakers . |
| 2 | Equally the enunciation of statements C and D may enable certain individuals to dominate the group in the name of an ‘ imagined community ’ of race or class which they either claim or are made by others to represent . |
| 3 | Women will no longer accept that they are relegated to the kitchen or are treated as machines for the production of children . |
| 4 | Of the 426 chemicals cleared for use in farming , 166 are known to cause , or are suspected of links with cancer , birth defects , genetic mutations and allergies . |
| 5 | Otherwise they are syphoned off into mysterious Liechtenstein trusts , or are invested in companies whose identities are kept secret . |
| 6 | Anyone who has visited a number of medieval castles will know how admirable their sites often are : how they command distant views , or river crossings , or are placed in situations of great natural strength . |
| 7 | Yet some women continue to feel unwell or are plagued by discomforts such as varicose veins , backache , bleeding gums or faintness . |
| 8 | They have no tradition of sharing pay-notes as do miners who work under , or are influenced by rules for work relations generated under , the cavilling/marra system . |
| 9 | The relevant form is 20 pages long and contains more than 50 questions , and the 1 million people a year who labour to fill it in often fail to do so or are helped by relatives and friends ; 100,000 go to the citizens advice bureaux for help . |
| 10 | The majority of IBM RS/6000 servers however , are installed in commercial environments , or are linked to systems which do not meet IDC 's technical criteria for workstations and are therefore not counted in workstation market figures , the Framingham , Massachusetts research outfit says . |
| 11 | The majority of IBM RS/6000 servers however , are installed in commercial environments , or are linked to systems that do not meet IDC 's technical criteria for workstations and are therefore not counted in workstation market figures , the Framingham , Massachusetts research outfit says . |
| 12 | The sections which resemble realistic narrative are either mocked through parenthetical comments , which reduce the passages to pastiche , or are phrased as hypotheses : ‘ Your uncle will meet you at the boat ( with his car — even threw that in ) . |
| 13 | The World Health Organisation recommends that all polio vaccines that are exposed to temperatures over 10°C for more than a day ( five days for measles vaccines ) should be used within three months . |
| 14 | Do not believe any articles you may read that are written by restaurateurs , professional chefs or cordon bleu cooks about either soufflés , profiteroles , or flambés being the simplest thing in the world . |
| 15 | A HMM is a collection of states that are connected by transitions . |
| 16 | Problems like premenstrual tension and hyperactivity in children are on the increase , as well as a number of condition that are caused by allergies of one kind or another : hay fever , eczema , asthma , migraine , and even some bowel problems . |
| 17 | that are strung with ribs like enormous harps . |
| 18 | On a molecular level , photosynthesis begins when light quanta excite banks of chlorophyll molecules that are arranged into networks of microscopic antennae protruding from the photosynthetic membranes . |
| 19 | For the foreseeable future , however , the inherent weaknesses of unionization in agriculture seem likely to continue to haunt the N U A A W. The falling number of agricultural workers , the urban influences that are spreading across tracts of once ‘ truly rural ’ countryside and the changing nature of the farm worker 's skills may conspire in any case to lead to a reappraisal of the need for a separate farm workers ' union . |
| 20 | The computer can check for towns that are missed off signs , those that appear for no good reason or appear only intermittently , to the great confusion of amateur navigators . |
| 21 | Alison Dalwood Paintings 1991–1992 Bede Gallery , Jarrow ( Until May 15 ) ALISON Dalwood uses her trademark whorls of paint to good effect in a brace of vertical compositions on the end wall here that are based on reflections in a River . |
| 22 | Now if parents , through playing games with their children that are based on words , could alert the child to the fact that print is a convention and that we can translate print into reality , obviously not as abstract as that , but just get the child used to knowing what print is , knowing what reading is , so that perhaps when they go to school they may well know this is a skill that they do n't have , like they do n't know , perhaps , how to ride a bike , they may not know how to swim , they certainly do n't know how to drive a car , but they do know what sort of a thing driving a car is . |
| 23 | Now if parents , through playing games with their children that are based on words , could alert the child to the fact that print is a convention and that we can translate print into reality , obviously not as abstract as that , but just get the child used to knowing what print is , knowing what reading is , so that perhaps when they go to school they may well know this is a skill that they do n't have , like they do n't know , perhaps , how to ride a bike , they may not know how to swim , they certainly do n't know how to drive a car , but they do know what sort of a thing driving a car is . |
| 24 | Many cuisines that are based on grains and pulses make extensive use of a wide range of spices to flavour their foods and this can clearly be seen in Indian and Far Eastern cookery . |
| 25 | Let us look at the various yarns that are spun on cones . |
| 26 | A list of regularly-occurring dream objects that are accepted by psychoanalysts as sexual symbols produced 102 symbols for a penis and just over half that number for sexual intercourse itself . |
| 27 | Throughout the interaction region subsequent to the collision they have obtained a complete set of bounded normal modes that are expressed in terms of spin-weighted spherical harmonics . |
| 28 | Beyond this a third detector picks up all the energy of hadrons — particles like protons and mesons that are built from quarks . |
| 29 | Educators advocate a mental flexibility and independence , while teaching practice aims at transmission of knowledge and culture , traditions that are certified by authorities and not to be questioned … these factors result in a very great weakness of the exclusive reliance on text books and other such authoritative sources of information . |
| 30 | It also provides a forum for discussion and prints papers that are presented at seminars and conferences organised by ICAA . |