Example sentences of "are [verb] [pron] [am/are] " in BNC.

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1 THE Great British public are proving they 're not sheepish about nuclear power with crowds flocking to the Sellafield Visitors Centre .
2 Shire horses are proving they 're just as useful as tractors in maintaining ancient woodland .
3 Alongside keyboard player Ceri Evans ' Sunship project and vocal sensation Jamiroqua , Mother Earth are proving there are new , diverse sounds emerging on a record label that some people pigeonholed way too prematurely .
4 I mean these are factors which are given which are trotted out as reasons .
5 The result is that systems at every level from the state to the small company are evaluated and policies are developed which are not sufficiently orientated to the needs and aspirations of the people within the system .
6 Change can be achieved more effectively when those who are to implement it are well informed .
7 I notice that even when you are simply listening to music on tape or watching it on the TV monitor when you are editing you are still breathing with the music even though you are not conducting it .
8 Research about vivid and flashbulb memories suggests that in exceptional circumstances , for example serious car accidents , memories of events are formed which are exceptional in their longevity .
9 When drugs which cause drowsiness are prescribed we are frequently advised to avoid all alcohol intake because this particular quality is heightened by the synergistic effect with the alcohol .
10 In other words , we are not forgiven because we keep the law : but once we are forgiven we are called to keep it .
11 The aims of this research are to discover what are the attributes , qualities and skills of senior managers ( the competencies ) that contribute to the establishment and maintenance of high performing systems .
12 And suddenly you are reminded there are backs to things
13 Thus we are still using the Darwinian model of evolution by natural selection , but the entities to which we are applying it are populations , or species , and not individuals as in most applications of the idea .
14 You are fined you are heavily fined in Germany and for decades already .
15 When they are exhaled they are filtered through the white crystals of soda lime , and a bacterial filter .
16 Once each set of packages are prepared they are ranked in descending order of importance ; that is , the more important the package the higher the ranking .
17 Again we see that in their subtlety and the manner in which they are presented they are still French fantasies .
18 By the time we are grown we are a badly mixed solution , but if the water can resurface , where it rightly belongs , then we will be as we once were , before all those hurts arrived .
19 As fast as the packages are unloaded they are checked with the consignment notes , trundled off to weighing machines for their weight to be recorded , and are then conveyed to the decks or platforms convenient to the spot where they will be loaded later in the day .
20 As the lorries are unloaded I am aware of a disturbance .
21 It is here that it seems to me that there are basic problems which are not thought through , and moreover that moves are made which are deceptive , in that they give the impression that a solution has been found where in fact the main issue has not been tackled .
22 When positive wax models are used they are extremely difficult to extract from the clay and they would have been destroyed in melting them out .
23 They are told they are not there simply to implement the wishes of social workers , or police , or anyone else .
24 Sporting friends of the Princess were last night predicting that she is so ‘ naffed off ’ she will resign her Olympic roles if she and her horsey friends are told they are not welcome at future Games .
25 For example , children who are told they are stupid tend to live up to that expectation .
26 Children who are told they are ‘ sickly ’ often actually become sickly .
27 They are told they are coming here to carry on their education , and I interpret this as being very broad-based .
28 All potential bidders are told they are in an auction process .
29 We are led to believe that ‘ lack of finance ’ is to blame yet we are told we are all paying an extra premium on the basic community charge in order that standards may be kept up .
30 It has always been there — from the suffragettes to the Women 's Institute — but many of the older forms have become outmoded and new ones are needed which are relevant to the modern age .
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