Example sentences of "[conj] are [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean things that are outside the laws of nature — supernatural things ? ’ asked Holmes . |
| 2 | If you are leaving the area do not forget to pick up any clothes that are at the cleaners , or shoes , clocks , or other items that are away being mended . |
| 3 | All the buses that are on the routes now extra buses , is it a better bus service ? |
| 4 | That are on the flats . |
| 5 | Wallerstein elaborated the concept of the semi-periphery to describe such countries , and this idea has been picked up by many scholars as a useful tool in analyzing the NICs and , increasingly , those countries that are on the fringes of the First World , but not exactly in the Third World , like Ireland , Portugal , and the Balkan states ( for example , Mouzelis , 1986 ) . |
| 6 | Please , I 'll pass on the information that you 've received , contact Kevin or myself for the details that are on the leaflets we 've put about . |
| 7 | That 's all those wonderful little codes that are on the cards in front of you . |
| 8 | Mr. Browne says that he is standing as constituency candidate , free to speak and act for the area and with the strength to resist party orders that are against the interests of grass roots people . |
| 9 | Bachrach and Baratz ( 1970 ) argued that power is also exercised when some groups are prevented from raising issues that are against the interests of the powerful . |
| 10 | As countries become more prosperous , they will want to improve their infrastructure , but the aid and trade provision is exhausted because not enough money has been allocated , so even schemes that are within the rules are not approved . |
| 11 | Does the Minister agree that perhaps a more urgent problem than the control of nuclear weapons in the republics of the former Soviet Union could be the vast amounts of conventional weapons that are in the hands of highly discontented and underpaid armed forces that have serious problems ? |
| 12 | In Britain you could not do better than to pick out from the varied products of the author John Wainwright , an ex-policeman , those of his books that are in the police procedural mode . |
| 13 | Similarly , of the twenty-three reports of sexual attacks mentioned in the Lancashire Evening Post , six refer to cases which are well outside the catchment area and are among the cases occasioning a national interest . |
| 14 | They are burning shops and are in the streets . |
| 15 | The question is how do you break into the cycle and make that happen , and I think the answer is , as I said , in two ways — one by making teachers more aware during their period of initial training , either at college or at university or polytechnic , and secondly by looking very carefully at the amount and type of in-service training erm that goes on for teachers once they 've left college and are in the schools . |
| 16 | The question is how do you break into the cycle and make that happen , and I think the answer is , as I said , in two ways — one by making teachers more aware during their period of initial training , either at college or at university or polytechnic , and secondly by looking very carefully at the amount and type of in-service training erm that goes on for teachers once they 've left college and are in the schools . |
| 17 | She helped me with advice , support and encouragement to bring humanitarian aid to the Shias who have escaped and are in the camps in south Iran . |
| 18 | These bonds are more subtle than gossamer strands of spiders in the grass and are like the fields of force of electricity or gravity . |
| 19 | They have occupied much of the time of the higher courts but are on the margins of land law , which traditionally focuses on the market-place and the importance of documentation as the root of title . |
| 20 | There is the theory of art , and there is aesthetics ; there is writing about artefacts which may or may not be categorised as art , but are in the hands of the archaeologist or the anthropologist ; and there is art appreciation . |