Example sentences of "are [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local authorities are nervously anticipating a flood of judicial review challenges over community care . |
| 2 | They are mostly using a mixture of APL and assessment on demand to gain the award . |
| 3 | ‘ These panes of glass are bullet proof and will not shatter , but if they are badly weakened a large , frightened animal like a bear may be able to force its way through and the consequences would be very severe ’ . |
| 4 | Now four English teenagers are dead following a canoeing accident off the Dorset coast , intensifying the concerns of parents all over Britain as they watch their children set off with their mates , while wondering what the chances are that something might go horribly wrong . |
| 5 | If you go to those lengths , you are obviously taking a big financial risk . |
| 6 | If the program is used in a field study in biology , for example the recording of all mini beasts in a defined grid square , a combination of information handling and subject skills are obviously developed a the same time . |
| 7 | If you are overweight , but are happy with the exercises you do at least three times per week , then far be it from us to interfere — continue , you are obviously doing a good job ! |
| 8 | The Cairngorm chairlift people are obviously making a great effort to try and limit the damage caused by erosion , by constantly replanting the worn areas with grass seed . |
| 9 | are all doing a futile side-stroke . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's like a holiday camp sometimes and we are all having a good time . |
| 11 | Certainly within universities the more senior the the member of staff the more likely they are apparently to use a desk as a barrier erm so that they sort of er y'know you see them from behind a desk , when you 're at the front of the desk and they 're behind the desk . |
| 12 | Blackwell indicates Win/U has attracted the passive interest of hardware vendors such as HP , IBM and Sun who are apparently adopting a ‘ wait-and-see ’ attitude . |
| 13 | THOSE two holy sinners , Jim Bakaar and Jimmy Swaggart , are apparently running a magazine from their prison cells . |
| 14 | This is a response from workers who are perhaps seeking a respite from a tedious job , or who wish to defy what they regard as an oppressive management . |
| 15 | They are perhaps playing a more prominent part than they have done for a long time . |
| 16 | Even if you are only seeing a few people there should be someone to greet them on arrival and make them feel they have come to the right place on the right day . |
| 17 | If we are only monitoring a process of purification , it may not be necessary to identify impurities , but unless we do , we can not be sure how sensitive the check on purity is . |
| 18 | New technology and more international competition will eventually create more jobs than they destroy , as they have for the past two centuries , if they are only given a chance to work . |
| 19 | Shop around for a reasonable estimate , or hire a van and the services of some friends and do it yourself , it is much cheaper , and worth while if you are only moving a short distance . |
| 20 | These capital schemes , though extremely welcome , are only going a part of the way towards the complete overhaul of the majority of the fixed plant which is required within Wimpey Minerals . |
| 21 | I am sure that you are only feeling a young girl 's modest misgivings at the approach of marriage . |
| 22 | This is really rather unfair because the only time we can really define correctly is in hindsight — when we have already found the solution and are merely inventing a definition that would have led us there ! |
| 23 | If two people are merely sharing a house or flat , e.g. two friends , unless the underwriters have been asked specifically to cover both persons ' property , there would only be cover for the property of the Policyholder . |
| 24 | This is another skewed reality , of course , for in their pursuit of the ‘ prig ’ they are merely following a version of justice which depends on blind acquiescence to establishment values of honesty . |
| 25 | What right have I to criticise so strongly ivory traders in China who are merely making a living , while I am sitting here killing unsuspecting animals for no reason at all ? |
| 26 | If you have existing furniture and are merely re-doing a room , you will almost certainly know what you want to keep and what to replace — or re-upholster , re-cover , re-finish or re-paint . |
| 27 | ( ii ) Contents , in the case of sensation , lack such a connection , but are in a special way qualitative and are somehow assigned a bodily location . |
| 28 | It is most widely used in Pakistan , and all but the poorest quality Mori Bokharas are normally given a lustre wash . |
| 29 | Some are uncertainly eating a sandwich or a slice of toast . |
| 30 | First and foremost , we are intentionally considering a limited subset of the potential causes of recent longer-term climate change . |