Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [prep] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This process is complicated by the differences in salary , qualification and experience which exist between field social workers who hold legal responsibility for such children and their residential colleagues who provide care for those children who are placed in children 's homes . |
| 2 | However , animal experiments have shown that , if tobacco extracts are painted on rabbits ' ears , cancerous growths tend to appear on the skin of the ear . |
| 3 | In the data there is some support for the notion that certain matters such as child care and support for elderly people are regarded as women 's business in families , while men 's business is money ; but it would be too crude to assume that this simple division of responsibilities could explain all the gender differences which occur in kin support . |
| 4 | Consider the basic so-called inverting and noninverting operational amplifier configurations featuring negative feedback that are depicted in figures 10.9(a) and ( b ) respectively . |
| 5 | Females are attracted by males ' displays and go to them for mating . |
| 6 | The [ draft ] FRS requires that all shares are reported within shareholders ' funds . |
| 7 | The handbook includes terms that are incorporated into employees ' contracts : |
| 8 | Whenever we are looking at children 's writing , it 's a high priority to respond to the content , but this can sometimes be difficult ; children themselves often become over-anxious about the surface features of their writing and frightened of making mistakes . |
| 9 | In addition , IIDA functions as an interface — an assistance mode — in which diagnostic procedures are applied to users ' commands and responses . |
| 10 | Evaluations may also be made of the whole work group so that judgements are made of workers ' attitudes and performance at both levels . |
| 11 | It 's a plea which we suggest should make the timetable serve the child and not the reverse , and so what we 're doing is we 're saying to children erm ‘ Yes , you are of the same worth , you are of equal value , you should have the same care , love attention and the same resources ’ . |
| 12 | Well I mean you know we 're not playing children 's ganging up games are we we know we 're dealing with peoples ' lives and families . |
| 13 | The birds that do it are the oilbirds of South America , and the cave swiftlets of the Far East , the ones whose nests are used for birds ' nest soup . |
| 14 | There were , as well , jumble sales , and stories are told of men 's silk hats mysteriously and miraculously transformed into stylish ladies ' bonnets , and of feather mattresses disintegrating , to the great discomfort of those transporting them . |
| 15 | Commentators need to be clear about whether they are enquiring into interviewees ' reading or their politics . |
| 16 | The $100m that clubs are paying in players ' wages this year is more than half as much again as they paid in 1990 . |
| 17 | Shifting the dramatic frame enables us to use the dramatic fictions that are shown on children 's television as starting points for drama . |
| 18 | But it questions whether pollution levels have truly fallen in that period , since the figures are based on companies ' revised interpretations of what they are required to report . |
| 19 | ( Thus Auer complains of Gumperz that " sometimes he makes strong claims about the effect of a given type or instance of code switching on the subsequent development of the sequence , which are based on informants ' reports , but fails to reproduce this subsequent passage " ( Auer 1984b : 106 , fn. 10 ) . ) |
| 20 | However , it is not possible to make this inference from the data as they are based upon subjects ' responses to a single question . |
| 21 | The theories are based upon individuals ' perception of what they expect out of work and recognise that individuals place different values on rewards and the effort that they have to expend in order to achieve those rewards . |
| 22 | The FRED proposes that warrants are credited to shareholders ' funds and that a gain is recognised in the statement of total recognised gains and losses when a warrant lapses unexercised . |
| 23 | Differences of this kind are both substantial and early to appear ( Wells , 1982 , 1985 ) , and whilst no doubt partly attributable to differences in genetic endowment , they are almost certainly also due to differences in the opportunities for learning that are provided by children 's linguistic environments . |
| 24 | Indeed at this time of year , hundreds of millions of pounds are spent on children 's toys alone . |
| 25 | Such cheques are known as bankers ' drafts . |
| 26 | The videos are accompanied by students ' Activity Books and teachers ' Video Guides . |
| 27 | When workers ' minds are focused on children 's emotional well-being it is all too easy to overlook the basics of good child care . |
| 28 | Our drinks are served on elephants ' feet which make good side-tables and were once popular as souvenirs . |
| 29 | People on television often behave as though they are interacting with us ; they look at the camera and address themselves to us , and though this seems to be a fiction , because we can not interrupt or contradict , still we can switch off or over , and TV programmes are influenced by viewers ' letters and ratings . |
| 30 | Day or weekend courses are run at clients ' premises and include team tactics , individual techniques , training programmes and video analysis . |