Example sentences of "are [verb] [prep] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asked in February 1987 what he had to say about the conclusions of the Tower Report , the first detailed inquiry into the affair , he referred reporters to ‘ the eighth Beatitude of Matthew 5 ’ : ‘ Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness ' sake , for theirs is the kingdom of heaven . ’ |
| 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 | The concepts of theme/rheme and given/new are supplemented in Firbas ' model with a non-binary notion that determines which elements are thematic and which are not thematic in a clause . |
| 4 | Females are attracted by males ' displays and go to them for mating . |
| 5 | MORE employees than ever are committed to Courtaulds ' aim of being faster , better , more distinctive . |
| 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 | ‘ I hope some of the senior players are looking at Flatts ' attitude . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | It ranges from the traditional dances of ancient Greece used by David Bintley for his Choros to the latest pieces of minimal music by John Cage that are used for Robbins ' Glass Pieces . |
| 13 | Commentators need to be clear about whether they are enquiring into interviewees ' reading or their politics . |
| 14 | The $100m that clubs are paying in players ' wages this year is more than half as much again as they paid in 1990 . |
| 15 | The three following principles are employed in Sears ' for the selection and assignment of subject headings : |
| 16 | I do n't know why they do it , the screws , because half of them are bent as butchers ' hooks anyway . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ( 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 ) . ) |
| 19 | However , it is not possible to make this inference from the data as they are based upon subjects ' responses to a single question . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Such cheques are known as bankers ' drafts . |
| 23 | The videos are accompanied by students ' Activity Books and teachers ' Video Guides . |
| 24 | The justice of his interpretation of the fascist state has been , and is , fiercely disputed , and I will not discuss it.i For its contours are set by Poulantzas ' more general conception of the state , and it is here that he is most explicit in trying to put Althusser 's theory to work . |
| 25 | Both functions of subject headings lists are fulfilled by Sears ' . |
| 26 | Our drinks are served on elephants ' feet which make good side-tables and were once popular as souvenirs . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Day or weekend courses are run at clients ' premises and include team tactics , individual techniques , training programmes and video analysis . |
| 29 | The references by Douglas and Isherwood to conventional economics are complemented by Sahlins ' critique of similar assumptions in Marxist economics ( 1976a ) , which in part extends the work of Baudrillard ; and both of these works use symbolic analysis in order to attempt more general assessments of the relationship between divisions of goods and divisions of peoples . |
| 30 | A look of bewilderment comes over the faces of visitors who can not comprehend why some supporters will not go to watch the national side simply because they are playing on Rangers ' ground . |