Example sentences of "[am/are] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things will seem far worse than they actually are for a few days — but once the drama dies down you 'll see you 're in a fine position after all . |
| 2 | Decor and furnishing are for the 1990s styles , insulation is even better than the Mark 3s and passengers with special needs are catered for as , for example , mother and baby facilities and disabled toilets . |
| 3 | The next steps are for the successful candidates to take . |
| 4 | The implicit assumption as to why this should be so is that questions of law are for the ordinary courts . |
| 5 | Of course , the pictures are for the young readers — or are they ? |
| 6 | It is less immediately evident that such an understanding should be necessary in order to account for the formal properties of code switching , although I would argue strongly that it is , inasmuch as the extent to which switching may take place is in part a function of the extent to which the codes involved have " fused " within a community , i.e. how interchangeable they are for the different purposes of everyday interaction . |
| 7 | And , there was some on a plate and my sister 's little lad went up and went to take one off this plate and then Valerie tu turned round , she said er , you ca n't have one of them , them are for the old folks . |
| 8 | This could be expressed in encouraging schoolchildren to think that careers in ‘ science ’ and ‘ maths ’ are for the brightest pupils while ‘ arts ’ and ‘ vocational training ’ are for others . |
| 9 | Though exact figures are lacking , as indeed they are for the previous Councils , Lateran II seems to have been better attended than most , if not all , others hitherto . |
| 10 | There are more differences between those groups than there are between the normal things that sociologists would look at ; for example , social class . |
| 11 | But no matter how great the differences are between the various views about the way the BBC should go , I am sure a great deal unites us . |
| 12 | Twice a week we have an assembly and , as a rule , assemblies are about the only occasions that Christianity gets a mention at school . |
| 13 | United are off the bottom thanks to last sunday 's win … |
| 14 | My memories of cardiac teaching rounds are of a dozen students queueing to listen to a murmur while the registrar stood at the end of the bed swinging a stethoscope and staring out of the window . |
| 15 | The copies are of the Tyrannic ides , Harmodios and Aristogeiton , by Kritios and Nesiotes ( the nature of whose collaboration we do not know ) , set up in the Agora at Athens in 477/6 to replace those by Antenor , carried off to Persepolis by Xerxes . |
| 16 | My lasting impressions of Plas-yn-Rhiw are of the great clumps of Fuchsia magellanica , its soft hazes of scarlet toning so well with the grey wall ; of an old pear tree and forsythia growing through the roof of the ruined dairy ; of the superb Magnolia campbellii mollicomata , planted by the Keatings in 1947 ; and of squeezing between box hedges down narrow grass passageways and ducking under arching pink rhododendrons and car-mine camellias as I followed the curving stone and cobbled paths . |
| 17 | It is vital that our site work and written reports are of the highest standards because if there were a transgression they may be used as legal evidence . ’ |
| 18 | The Group operates a number of pension schemes worldwide , the principal schemes being those in the United Kingdom , which are of the defined benefits type . |
| 19 | The principal schemes , which are in the United Kingdom and described below , are funded and are of the defined benefits type covering approximately 440 employees [ 1991 520 ] . |
| 20 | The answer depends in part on arithmetic , and on how far short the Conservatives are of the 326 seats needed . |
| 21 | The CIBA-GEIGY Works at Duxford is not affected by these regulations because the quantities of chemicals stored there are below the minimum levels set under the CIMAH regulations . |
| 22 | They 're for the mass graves expected to be needed after the first German air raids . ’ |
| 23 | they 're like the wordless books |
| 24 | There 's a dilemma of who 's taking decisions about what and should the troops on the ground who may be involved , could be involved in fighting following an air strike erm are not under a NATO flag , they 're under a United Nations flag , so it is quite a complex situation and a very delicate one to handle . |
| 25 | As I told you , they 're from the best breeders — those whose kennels have passed inspection . ’ |
| 26 | When it 's asked , when it says I tell you mainly from the eastern parts and western parts , well we 're from the western parts are n't we ? |
| 27 | Well we 're in the fabulous surroundings of Menorca and as well as being a wonderful holiday resort , it 's also recognized by the Royal Yachting Association as a training centre . |
| 28 | I 've been a Celtic supporter for thirty five years , I 've seen the good days and we 're in the bad days . |
| 29 | You signed up for tennis lessons ( out comes the shorty tennis skirt , a volley of wolf-whistles from the labourers outside , and off to the courts where the horrid male instructor drills you as if you 're in the Green Berets ) . |
| 30 | At a guess I 'd say we 're over the Swiss Wilds . ’ |