Example sentences of "and [noun] [am/are] [adv] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christmas trees decorated by lights and ornaments are also to be found in many homes . |
| 2 | Their energies and enthusiasm are greatly to be admired . |
| 3 | Details of the arrangement between the government and insurers are still to be finalised . |
| 4 | But if this is a mistake and animals are properly to be understood as primitive beings , at least as different from us as they are similar , then their modest entitlement to humane treatment , accorded them by common sense and enshrined in the law , might well be vindicated . |
| 5 | Attitudinal justifications and criticisms are not to be seen as epiphenomena , tacked onto some more basic psychological predisposition , but are integral to attitudes qua attitudes . |
| 6 | Changes to other designs and associations are thus to be restricted and controlled by an upwards reporting and authorization procedure . |
| 7 | Dictionaries and encyclopedias are usually to be found in this section . |
| 8 | The reader who returns frequently to the poem , and ( in the way of obsessive readers ) delights in noticing meanings potentially nestling within meanings , will begin to be persuaded , by and by , that these hints of battle and brutality are not to be ignored ; yet they remain no more than hints , shadows of meaning cast by a powerful text . |
| 9 | He said 7,000 other positions in marketing and service are also to be eventually cut from the workforce , which totalled 90,000 at the end of 1992 . |
| 10 | When Jesus says to his disciples , ‘ You are not to set your mind on food or drink ; you are not to worry ’ ( Luke 12:29 — the only New Testament use of the word ) , he is saying that God 's care for us as Father means that food and drink are not to be a hang-up , an occasion for doubt and anxiety which constantly keeps us up in the air . |
| 11 | There are certain bars where artists and writers are always to be seen , talking animatedly as they set the world to rights . |
| 12 | Excessive and lustful kissing , lustful embraces , suggestive postures and gestures are not to be shown . |
| 13 | Grief and tears are not to be seen as special experiences , only to be used at great and solemn moments . |
| 14 | If parents and governors are now to be involved , this may make sex education even more complicated as teachers try to accommodate a variety of differing moral views on what should be taught . |
| 15 | In Canada , although there are few opportunities for training outside the big city , high standards of worship and music are still to be found in places . |
| 16 | Some youngish trees which are damaging the bridge have been removed and others are still to be removed . |