Example sentences of "are [adj] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question is whether , since no children were born to the testator , the slaves are due their freedom at once . |
| 2 | But now in our action round-up we 're off to Kingsholm , where Gloucester are kicking-off their new season tomorrow |
| 3 | When you are asleep your breathing becomes deep , slow and forceful . |
| 4 | On the contrary , while we are asleep our consciousness seems to happen to us , rather than being under our control . |
| 5 | Some are afraid their children will grow up like him . |
| 6 | Most will be reluctant to undergo assessment , either because they are involved in criminal activity or they expected to be subjected to a judgmental and disapproving attitude towards themselves , or because they are afraid their children may be removed from them . |
| 7 | We must contact these people , we must build back the confidence to the unemployed , we 've given these people who are unemployed our good training , we need their expertise to come back and fight again if we 're gon na have any hope for the future . |
| 8 | He is one of hundreds of sheep farmers who are convinced their illness — often accompanied by nausea , headaches , blurred vision and muscle spasms — is caused by organophosphorus ( OP ) compounds in sheep dip . |
| 9 | His family are convinced his drink was spiked . ’ |
| 10 | Patients are delighted their local hospital has been saved from the axe . |
| 11 | We are delighted our own staff and the residents have given their effort , time and cash so generously . ’ |
| 12 | make sure they are lying on their side so that if they are sick their vomit wo n't stop them breathing |
| 13 | Where currents are feeble their role may lie principally in determining the direction of fall of particles raised into suspension by wave action . |
| 14 | And if they are black their disadvantage is multiplied . |
| 15 | But managers of top clubs like Arsenal , Manchester United and Liverpool are unhappy their players will be forced to end a long , gruelling season with a tough tour . |
| 16 | Hull KR are confident their players ' strike will be settled at a further meeting tonight . |
| 17 | But even that is better than many other counties … and officers are confident their successful crackdown on crime will continue . |
| 18 | While Judith , Rachel and Karen are sure their partners are happy to go along with the little alterations they try to make , Zelda says that interfering too much can prove to be very dangerous to a relationship . |
| 19 | [ Since the polynomials bdF and acGH are equal their contents must be . ] |
| 20 | If clods and stones are present their removal prior to planting can help to reduce tuber damage . |
| 21 | I 'll deal with it ! ’ , her next move is to open the diary , because as sure as Tesco 's eggs are free-range my next sentence will be . |
| 22 | Unless you possess extraordinary powers of self-insight ( see Self-awareness on page 153 ) you are likely to delude yourself into thinking that since your intentions are good your behaviour is good also . |
| 23 | We can not see that power is a means of dealing with fear , of acting and doing in order to gain control over it ; when we are powerless our fears overwhelm us . |
| 24 | But not without the ballast that just saves Gregory from run-of-the-mill frippery. at this stage we are trowel-fed our socialist message when Meridon , aka Sarah , Last of the Laceys , is torn between the current management of her inherited estate as one of the popular communes of 18th-century England , run as a profit-share system by the workers , and the sweet novelties of high-society capitalism . |
| 25 | A number of these things that I have already raised this morning are perhaps are , er primary phase issues rather than secondary but we must remember that the pressures on secondary schools continue as in the primary phase and finally another concern which you are all very well aware of and which particularly if you 're governors you will have drawn to your attention constantly is erm the continuing concern about our educational building stock both in terms of its adequacy as regards the size and the capacity of the accommodation at , where some schools are concerned its need for repair and maintenance work and its need for adaptation to meet the new demands of the curriculum . |
| 26 | After recent bad weather and rough seas , local farmers are concerned their land is literally disappearing into the sea . ’ |
| 27 | As far as the actors themselves are concerned their mutual relationship is their mutual interactive behaviour . |
| 28 | There is nothing he can tell you beyond what I already have — that as far as we are concerned my mother has been dead for more than twenty years . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ As far as you are concerned his name is simply Haroun . |
| 30 | When you are angry your breathing can be quite irregular . |