Example sentences of "are [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , most of them thrive on it , but many people are beginning to wonder if the rewards for having power , and being able to influence others , are worth the costs , especially in terms of family relationships . |
| 2 | It raises a number of complex and inter-related matters , some of which are for the pensions industry , some for the banks , some for actuaries , auditors and regulators . |
| 3 | These figures are for the fibres alone . |
| 4 | Borland wants the rest of us to stick with Paradox and like it ( and we do ) , so most of the improvements in version 1.5 are for the pros . |
| 5 | These are for the climbers , and when you feel puny as a walker you can sidle over to someone looking through this rail and look them straight in the eye , secure in the knowledge that nothing in hill-walking requires you to dress in such a gruesome fashion . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , those are for the girls . ’ |
| 8 | And stickers are for the windows . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | More than half of the 999 calls are for the police and , since crime is rising , Oftel estimates that the current average of 60,000 calls a day will rise to 70,000 by the mid 1990s . |
| 12 | That 's forty five minutes , now these books , the white ones are for the tapes one to ten |
| 13 | It is obvious , argues Cutler , how suitable these characteristics are for the needs of bourgeois society . |
| 14 | The idea behind the Partnership Act is that the internal affairs of the partnership are for the partners to decide . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The majority of carers are between the ages of forty and sixty , with some eight per cent under forty . |
| 18 | If you are between the ages of 36 and 45 , the maximum is 20 per cent . |
| 19 | If you are between the ages of 46 and 50 , the amount is 25 per cent . |
| 20 | If you are between the ages of 51 and 55 , you can pay 30 per cent . |
| 21 | If you are between the ages of 56 and 60 , the maximum is 35 per cent . |
| 22 | ‘ Where the proceedings are between the parents , both of whom are acting bona fide in the interests of the child , it is not uncommon to make no order as to costs of the proceedings . |
| 23 | They are between the hills and the Forth and are sparing nothing in Lothian , from the east coast to Dunedin . |
| 24 | The major contradictions in society are between the forces and relations of production . |
| 25 | At present the arguments for various methods of communication are between the techniques ‘ total communication ’ and the fairly recent ‘ natural aurlism ’ . |
| 26 | A diminishing fear of loss allows some separateness to develop in the partnership ; a two-person relationship which is more substantially based on how things really are between the partners begins to emerge . |
| 27 | They are about the lives of women in Bengal . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | Even if there never will be any easy answers to such questions , and certainly not ones which could be read off from some kind of ‘ correct analysis ’ , it is still the case that the better informed we are about the complexities which underlie them the quicker we will be able to learn from our mistakes . |
| 30 | 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 . |