Example sentences of "[pers pn] are [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the sport and television market appears to be a free-for-all to delight the most Darwinist of entrepreneurs , a scrutiny of those top five private networks soon reveals that four of them are in the hands of a holding firm called Finvest , which is itself the broadcasting vehicle of the Socialist-leaning businessman Silvio Berlusconi . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's just the way you are when you are with the lesbians in the group . ’ |
| 3 | I do n't know how familiar you are with the accounts of the group as a whole . " |
| 4 | ‘ My son , ’ said Alex , ‘ you are on the horns of a dilemma . ’ |
| 5 | The scenario is world war two and you are at the controls of the fictional whirly-bird . |
| 6 | When you no longer have children dependent on you — and provided you are between the ages of 40 and 60 — you are eligible for a widow 's pension . |
| 7 | If you are between the ages of 36 and 45 , the maximum is 20 per cent . |
| 8 | If you are between the ages of 46 and 50 , the amount is 25 per cent . |
| 9 | If you are between the ages of 51 and 55 , you can pay 30 per cent . |
| 10 | If you are between the ages of 56 and 60 , the maximum is 35 per cent . |
| 11 | He only has one loyal follower and that is Meander , and when a king has such little support , it is obvious that you are in the realms of revolution . |
| 12 | You are in the lands of the Yek , and I am a general in the army of the Kha-Khan of the Golden Clan — the Yek Altun . |
| 13 | And when you are in the troughs of those waves , you sometimes wonder when you will ever come up again . |
| 14 | She started off as a journalist , and when reading her on the nauseating cult of Elizabeth David , you know you are in the hands of a mistress of rhetoric . |
| 15 | It does have a meaning ( we think ) , but you are in the depths of the rain forest ! |
| 16 | You do n't notice them when you are in the valleys , but after an invigorating climb up Black Ven or the Golden Cap , it is a huge disappointment to be confronted by rank upon rank of square box-shaped caravans . |
| 17 | In any case , I do n't know how capable you are behind the embers or whatever . |
| 18 | SUMMER can be hell if you are among the hordes who endure nettle rash , bad reactions to insect bites and stings , sensitivity to sunlight , or any of the allergies which are so common from now right on through the summer . |
| 19 | You are like the Pharisees and the hypocrites ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We have n't got to the predicting level yet but the more familiar we are with the patterns , the better able we will be to make educated guesses . ’ |
| 21 | Yeah it says , Romans ten , verse thirteen , for every everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah , will be saved , however , how will they call on him if in him they 'd not put faith , how in turn will they put faith in him , if him they 've not heard , how in turn will they hear without someone to preach , how in turn will they preach unless they 've been sent forth , just as it is written , how come we are at the feet of those who declare good news of good things well that 's more or less what we were saying is n't it ? |
| 22 | Even if there never will be any easy answers to such questions , and certainly not ones which could be read off from some kind of ‘ correct analysis ’ , it is still the case that the better informed we are about the complexities which underlie them the quicker we will be able to learn from our mistakes . |
| 23 | They are as worried as we are about the implications for the people of this country . |
| 24 | Once we are through the mountains and out on to the plain of the Moistr ’ River we may split into smaller groups , but I will decide who will be given individual commands when that arises . ’ |
| 25 | Here we are on the hills , and it 's no better . |
| 26 | In any case , enveloped though it is in ingratiating compliments to us on how charming we are in the bosoms of our families , the indictment is quite firm and it is unsparing : ‘ Suffocating insular coziness ’ . |
| 27 | Flight We are in the mountains , on an expedition/fleeing a tyrant/trying to find somewhere safe to live after an earthquake has destroyed our town ; we come to a ravine . |
| 28 | As we are in the suburbs of the city , much of the land at the sides of the road is taken up with intensive agriculture . |
| 29 | When we speak of strong attachment or attraction between two people we are in the realms of love , the basis on which many people in our culture choose or are drawn towards their marriage partner . |
| 30 | ‘ We are in the agonies of househunting ’ , Bernard Shaw wrote to his friend H. G Wells in the spring of 1904 . |