Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] are [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 One view is that it is the result of government parsimony towards prison staff ; the other is that such staff shortages as occur are due to the arcane system of rigid restrictive practices developed by the Prison Officers ' Association ( POA ) .
2 Poverty and overcrowding are characteristic of the greater part of the Canning Town and Silvertown areas , which make up what is perhaps the largest part of unbroken depression in East London .
3 Most problems that arise are common to both types .
4 In a seminar last week at CERN , Rubbia presented five events , or collisions , in which the particles that emerge are consistent with what is expected for a particular mode of decay of the particle .
5 The examples that follow are typical of the sort of work that BGS undertakes overseas , both in scope and in direction .
6 Other issues that develop are concerned with caring people who wish to help relatives and friends express their grief .
7 Oralists believe that every deaf child of normal intelligence can learn lipreading and speech , and that signing and fingerspelling are harmful to a child 's learning process .
8 There are notices in departmental rooms regarding this matter and I would remind you that such activities as copying are illegal without a licence .
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