Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] the [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 We need to be aware that many of the ideas we introduce on an assumption that they are reflecting the children 's backgrounds may have little or no meaning or relevance for the children .
2 From being the bogey of bankers , we are becoming the bankers ' friend .
3 Sharon Greensitt , 18 , and Debbie Walton , 17 , both of New Marske , are to receive the Girls ' Brigade Queen 's Award .
4 Erm erm when you 're patrolling the flats erm have you ever come erm into any sort of physical danger yourself ?
5 Other scientists are investigating the compounds ' role in treating breast , brain , liver and skin cancers .
6 There are , there are other ways to come by children , erm I have a relationship with a man who has three children erm he 's been married , he 's divorced , separated , and I do n't feel that I 'm replacing the children 's own mother , I feel like I 'm not even stepmother , I 'm just their friend , get on very well with them , and we we share I share mothering , if you like , with their own mother whom they see .
7 That depends crucially on how seriously we are to take the actors ' own accounts of what they do .
8 In the style of economists , we are to reconstruct the agents ' choices , given their preferences and information sets , assuming that they are rational agents .
  Next page