Example sentences of "they are [adv] [verb] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modern technologies can not be successfully used if they are simply imposed on an unwilling and underskilled workforce . |
| 2 | They are best used in an inspirational setting as part of a total church-life conference . |
| 3 | More important is the ability of companies to increase earnings per share by enough to push share prices any higher at a time when they are already trading on an average 18 times earnings . |
| 4 | They are also faced with an increasing need to diversify because of changes in the Common Agricultural Policy to counter the problem of over-production , and a consequent decline in farming income . |
| 5 | The reason for this must be that one can hardly cause an explosion without realizing that one is about to do so , and that explosions usually create danger and must be known to do so , unless they are carefully controlled in an area away from members of the public . |
| 6 | Because of the nature of their following , they are still categorised as an ‘ alternative ’ outfit . |
| 7 | At five they are then pushed into an environment where the language is new , the rules incomprehensible and where , unless it is a predominantly Asian area , they are made to realise that they belong to a special category — Asian . |
| 8 | Although they are often cited as an instrument of central control , their effectiveness is difficult to determine because individual local authorities- and sometimes even different departments within the same authority — react differently to them . |
| 9 | These are all writings by academics in early or middle life ; and though animated as argument , they are deliberately cast in an academic mould . |
| 10 | The curious thing about such stretches of Creole is that they are never treated as an invitation to continue the conversation in Creole , but rather as a one-off comment . |
| 11 | This is because although they are usually regarded as an important branch of positivist theorising , they also have much in common with the classical tradition . |
| 12 | Nowadays they are usually performed in an ossified Kabuki style and for Ninagawa the task was to throw all this off and recover their original spirits . |