Example sentences of "[be] [verb] are [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Swedish agricultural policy is principally directed towards the enlargement of farms and an overall reduction in crop acreage and farm labour , but rural communities which earn the major part of their income from agriculture or forestry and whose populations are declining are recognised as a national asset whose survival should be safeguarded .
2 However , it is worth emphasising that the stages and the measures on which they are based are derived from a grammatical description and that , in the case of children with language difficulties , it can not be assumed that structurally based measures are predictive of functional skills ( Blank et al .
3 When it mis-classifies an instance , all the cells which were addressed are reset to a random value .
4 The commands being executed are represented as a pattern of ‘ on ’ and ‘ off ’ switches in the central processor unit , so that a switch that is in the off state is carrying as much information as one that is on .
5 The selection of letters that are similar to what was written are retrieved with an indication of how close a match was obtained .
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