Example sentences of "in [noun pl] [pers pn] are " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For the first time in ages they are tackling their problems in a sensible , mature manner without hysteria on one side and bloody-mindedness on the other . |
| 2 | It 's difficult , though , because if you talk to adolescent boys in schools they are violently opposed to women 's liberation , or they hate the name women 's liberation , because they are very defensive perhaps about their own masculinity at that age , and their own masculinity is defined very much in terms of being superior to girls and having mums who wait on them at home , so it 's difficult to challenge that kind of supposition at that age . |
| 3 | If they come in trousers they are warned or made to take them off . |
| 4 | In sociolinguistics they are normally used in cases where several different independent variables ( such as sex , age and network ) may be interacting , and therefore possibly cancelling out the effects of one another . |
| 5 | An interesting difference is that in ants the workers are all sterile females , whereas in termites they are sterile males and sterile females . |
| 6 | When the workers who produce the wealth of society demand an increase in their pay to match the rise in prices they are rebuked for being ‘ greedy ’ . |
| 7 | When individuals and corporations respond to change in prices they are simultaneously creating wealth in response to changing demands . |
| 8 | In fevers they are chilly before the chill , a creeping chilliness in the evening which may increase into the night ; very sensitive to a draught ; cold hands and feet ; profuse and offensive sweat which often makes things worse ( < ) . |
| 9 | Since words in the closed class have a syntactic rather than a semantic role in utterances they are also known as function words . |
| 10 | In others they are crushed and flaky . |
| 11 | In some types of wood the grain markings are indistinct , while in others they are well-defined . |
| 12 | In some cases these arrangements may seem reasonable , In others they are clearly a-rip-off' . |
| 13 | We now know much more about surviving hunters and gatherers than was known in Morgan 's day and , although sexual unions among them may in some cases be very unstable , in others they are not . |
| 14 | Each planner is individually responsible for putting forward suggestions of suitable issues ; in some instances these can be the result of maverick ideas , and in others they are achieved through a more down-to-earth type of thought . |
| 15 | In many cases they are now wider in scope than the function which gave them birth ; in others they are at least on a par with the sales function . |
| 16 | The radial shields are visible in some specimens but in others they are partially or totally obscured by the spinelets . |
| 17 | ‘ It means , in some ways you are the same , and in others you are different . ’ |
| 18 | Somewhere here in Martigues they are also drying something slightly more edible — the famous poutargue , compressed and salted grey mullet roes , a primitive speciality of Martigues whose origin goes back , they say , to the Phoenicians . |