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 ) .
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