Example sentences of "are [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Von Tunzelmann , remarking that prices had the greater influence on real wage trends over this period , finds that the indices available are much closer to each other than they are for the periods on either side . |
| 2 | Most of the meetings are for the purposes of electing Elders and Deacons ; selecting dates for Communion and purging and adding to the roll in preparation ; electing a representative in the Presbytery and Synod ; and acting as a court of discipline . |
| 3 | There are several reasons why you might want to use a data compression utility ; the main two are for the purposes of backup , or for sending files to someone else , either on a disk or via a modem . |
| 4 | It is obvious , argues Cutler , how suitable these characteristics are for the needs of bourgeois society . |
| 5 | All Welsh counties for instance are limited to increasing their budgets of one point seven on point seven five percent over nineteen ninety three , ninety four are as the cities of Cardiff and Swansea and the borough of Newport and it is this cap of one point seven percent as my honourable friend for Cardiff South and Penarth has pointed out , which is at the route of the funding problems of the South Wales police authority area . |
| 6 | When you no longer have children dependent on you — and provided you are between the ages of 40 and 60 — you are eligible for a widow 's pension . |
| 7 | The majority of carers are between the ages of forty and sixty , with some eight per cent under forty . |
| 8 | If you are between the ages of 36 and 45 , the maximum is 20 per cent . |
| 9 | If you are between the ages of 46 and 50 , the amount is 25 per cent . |
| 10 | If you are between the ages of 51 and 55 , you can pay 30 per cent . |
| 11 | If you are between the ages of 56 and 60 , the maximum is 35 per cent . |
| 12 | They are about the lives of women in Bengal . |
| 13 | Long ago , in the heyday of Cambridge English , Richards was making a similar distinction between the ‘ critical ’ and the ‘ technical ’ : ‘ All remarks as to the ways and means by which experiences arise or are brought about are technical , but critical remarks are about the values of experiences and the reasons for regarding them as valuable , or not valuable . ’ |
| 14 | Here again policy and practice in the inner city are as much about the way we chose to conceptualise social problems as they are about the experiences of inner city communities themselves . |
| 15 | While a formal prospectus is normally issued for each degree course , such statements vary considerably in the amount of detail they give , and how explicit they are about the aims of the course . |
| 16 | They are as worried as we are about the implications for the people of this country . |
| 17 | These two books are about the ways in which two important groups of mammals — the ruminants and the marsupials — utilise different food resources . |
| 18 | The warehouses are organised in a hierarchical manner with a central one buying from satellite warehouses , which are situated in the poorer residential areas of Cali , so that they are near the homes of the garbage pickers . |
| 19 | Forgetting to renew tax or insurance , and forgetting that lights are on full beam , and to some degree taking the more usual route by mistake , are unlike the others in that they appear to represent failures of prospective memory e.g. forgetting to do something . |
| 20 | ALTERN 8 , MOBY , THE SHAMEN , SHADES OF RHYTHM , SL2 and SUNSCREEM are amongst the performers at this year 's DMC Technics Mixmag Awards taking place at The Royal Albert Hall on November 9 . |
| 21 | Whereas fast compound curves suggest smoke , silks and delicate , tenuous traceries drawn by a breeze , slow compound curves are like the muscles of a weight lifter — powerful , even ponderous and writhing when taken to extremes . |
| 22 | The arms say the light of day in a short sleeved dress and they are like the arms of a prize fighter . |
| 23 | Each image is like a candle and it is for us to embroider our minds so that they are like the constellations of the heavens — Rumi 's harvest of stars . |
| 24 | Gays in the church , for example , are like the canaries in the Welsh mines , leading the way for others . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Single malt whiskies are like the Chateaux of Bordeaux , ’ says Allan Schiach , Chairman of The Macallan , one of Scotland 's best known malts . |
| 26 | I am just able to discern the formalities which are like the horns of ships circling in the fog to dock . |
| 27 | Even the tatty Dolphinarium suggests a forgotten fair-ground in the dark , and the pier timbers are like the legs of an artificial dinosaur , sturdy and reassuring in the gloom . |
| 28 | These bonds are more subtle than gossamer strands of spiders in the grass and are like the fields of force of electricity or gravity . |
| 29 | In many ways the fibres of Parameta are like the hairs of animal fur — tightly packed at source and more open towards the outside . |
| 30 | Mr. Browne says that he is standing as constituency candidate , free to speak and act for the area and with the strength to resist party orders that are against the interests of grass roots people . |