Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | There are many quality initiatives already under way in Scotland which are proving effective at local level . |
2 | In a project funded by the Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood Trust ( CLIC ) , Beverley and her team have developed a procedure for cloning the cell factories that produce antibodies which are proving effective as magic bullets in identifying and destroying brain tumours . |
3 | But if the problems of training staff and investing in the necessary hardware and software systems are proving burdensome to national institutions , they will surely place an intolerable strain on the budgets of local archival services , many of whom are already faced with reduced hours of opening and the like simply in order to survive . |
4 | Differential facets are subfacets which are placed adjacent to specific facets to which they apply ; they are not generally used with all of the facets in the scheme . |
5 | Push the pictured tiles around the playing area , matching like with like and making them disappear — when two similar designs are placed adjacent to each other , they 're destroyed . |
6 | Amongst other things , this ought to help to ensure that co-operative R ventures are favoured relative to co-operative D ventures . |
7 | The stout plastic sacks are ripped open by sharp beaks , allowing the birds to help themselves to the contents . |
8 | Their representatives are helping thousands of orphaned children and displaced families escape from the tyranny of civil war . |
9 | If you are eating enough of these kinds of food to maintain appropriate weight ( or , if you are overweight , to lose weight slowly ) then you should automatically be getting enough vitamins and minerals . |
10 | The firm now employs 14 solicitors and associates , who are completing 10 to 15 house purchases a day , and has clients all over the country and across the globe . |
11 | Travellers ' tales of uninhabited wastes are often based on the sight of dried-out wheat stubble in areas where agricultural towns and villages ( pueblos ) are spaced ten to twenty miles apart . |
12 | Such side-effects seem to be becoming increasingly common these days , and many patients are becoming disgruntled with these drugs and are seeking safer alternatives . |
13 | Growing numbers of schools , colleges , community groups and other training providers are becoming involved in European projects . |
14 | In general old people who are becoming vulnerable in some way , are left to carry on coping with the assistance of family , friends , or neighbours , and most receive minimal help from outside welfare agencies . |
15 | The first pictures encountered by the youngest readers ( and the youngest readers will be very young : ‘ Ideally , a small pile of good books awaits the new baby 's arrival ’ according to Dorothy Butler , 1980 , p.27 ) will be simple , clear pictures of objects to be seen in the reader 's immediate world , objects that are becoming familiar in real life . |
16 | Increasingly , literary texts are becoming available in computerised form . |
17 | In 1974 , for example , we learned that ‘ For the first time in a century and a half , since the great Tory reformer Robert Peel set up the Metropolitan police areas of our cities are becoming unsafe for peaceful citizens by night , and some even by day ’ — from no less an authority than that great Tory reformer Sir Keith Joseph . |
18 | Increases in the costs of transport , housing and health charges and other costs for food , heating and clothing , are becoming unbearable for retired people in my part of the world . |
19 | The programme aims to make unnecessary any further expansion of coal , oil and gas generation , all of which are deemed unacceptable on environmental grounds . |
20 | It provides information on all materials that are deemed appropriate for these awards . |
21 | The polysorbates are deemed responsible for these changes . |
22 | But I see I am becoming preoccupied with these memories and this is perhaps a little foolish . |
23 | I am becoming sympathetic to those women of the suburbs . |
24 | Storage not exceeding the following heights are considered suitable for Ordinary Hazard systems . |
25 | As noted above , some prerogative powers are considered unsuitable for judicial review . |
26 | One of the reasons why women are more vulnerable than men with the introduction of highly technologised industry is that female workers are considered inappropriate for mechanised industry . |
27 | The situation with non-US tuna vessels is far worse , as most of them are operating free of any regulations whatsoever . |
28 | We are looking two to three years ahead at least . |
29 | THINGS are looking rosy for one Darlington businessman thanks to the election . |
30 | Formal distinctions between elected and appointed bodies are made redundant by centralized executive control over recruitment , policy making and implementation ( Feher , Heller and Markus 1983 , p. 107 ) . |