Example sentences of "they [am/are] [vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They act as a powerful aphrodisiac on pigs , and synthesised versions of them are sprayed onto sows to make them receptive before artificial insemination . |
| 2 | ‘ A lot of them are planned for areas in the South Downs , which we really do n't want . |
| 3 | In other words , all the negative characteristics of humanity as men perceive them are projected onto women . |
| 4 | All of them are suspected of links with Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman , a blind Egyptian preacher who lives in New Jersey and urges an Islamic holy struggle against the West and the government of President Hosni Mubarak . |
| 5 | Differences between them are assimilated to differences on sex-differentiated traits like masculinity or self-confidence . |
| 6 | Perhaps male bats have body surfaces that are subtly textured so that the echoes that bounce off them are perceived by females as gorgeously coloured , the sound equivalent of the nuptial plumage of a bird of paradise . |
| 7 | A number of them are duplicated in Windows 3.1 and these are more up to date versions . |
| 8 | A number of them are patched with squares of the ubiquitous plywood which is also employed to board up the now empty , adjoining , caretaker 's house . |
| 9 | Consequently , even although a high proportion of particular categories of material may be in poor condition in the stacks , if not many of them are issued to readers , they may be in less danger than other items which are more frequently issued . |
| 10 | Soil tests to discover the pH are easily done , and the kits for doing them are provided with instructions by several garden product companies , and stocked at garden shops . |
| 11 | Most of them are performed by women , and most women continue to perform them into their old age , whether or not they have formerly had paid employment . |
| 12 | Nearly all of them are bought by adults for themselves . |
| 13 | Many of them are held through trusts with names like Jupiter , Venus , and Mars , registered here at Morgan-Grenfell . |
| 14 | Most of them are produced by women , who provide insights that come from relating female experience to a body of writing ; logically , there is no reason why these insights should not be available to male critics with the right sympathies and sensibility , but in practice most of this criticism is by women . |
| 15 | The fillers change but they are assimilated into slots which remain the same . |
| 16 | They are developed in sandstones where a master joint pattern is aligned with the trade winds and do not occur where the joint direction deviates by more than 15 degrees from the wind direction ( Mabbutt , 1977 ) . |
| 17 | Stand magnifiers overcome this problem as they are mounted on supports that ensure the correct viewing distance , and some have built-in illumination to increase the luminosity on the working surface . |
| 18 | Thus the power of corporate managers vis-à-vis society is legitimated because they are perceived as experts wielding power for the benefit of society generally . |
| 19 | Given the large crowds , moreover , professional soccer provides a context where it is relatively easy to escape detection and arrest , and last but not least , a group of outsiders , the opposing team and its fans , comes regularly into the home territory where they are perceived as invaders and targets for attack . |
| 20 | Perhaps their essence is more difficult to grasp because they are perceived by customers in entirely different roles , depending on the customer — for example , as friend , wine expert or simple emissary of the kitchen . |
| 21 | Yet they are perceived in terms of a fundamental dichotomy , an insuperable barrier between the life-styles of women and men . |
| 22 | These are important to a great many people , whether they are perceived in terms of localised effects impinging on their everyday lives or in terms of the national picture which emerges from news media coverage and wider reading . |
| 23 | They have never been given equality of status with the other ‘ nations ’ of Yugoslavia , and even under the benign 1974 Constitution they are conscious that they are regarded as inferiors , barely tolerated by the Slav peoples of Yugoslavia , and especially by the Serbs . |
| 24 | Although they are regarded as parts of the pleura they may be conveniently referred to here on account of their close association With the wing attachments . |
| 25 | Old people are , of course , entitled to the same social courtesies as we are , and it can be very irritating for them if they are made to feel that they are regarded as has-beens who have nothing better to do than to sit around waiting to be visited at our convenience . |
| 26 | But in many societies the position is exactly reversed ; homicide invites private reprisal , while many types of sexual offence lead to public punishment because they are regarded as sins which generate a condition of ritual pollution and thus endanger the whole community . |
| 27 | From the beginning , they are beset by dangers . |
| 28 | For all our participants , and undoubtedly for many of this age-group , a central issue that is constantly recurring in their interpretation of the day-to-day practices they encounter in their social lives is the extent to which they are recognized as persons of independent dignity and standing . |
| 29 | Fall-rise and rise-fall tones , however , can be quite difficult to recognise when they are extended over tails , since their characteristic pitch movements are often broken up or distorted by the structure of the syllables they occur on . |
| 30 | In summer they are grazed by cattle . |