Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | All questions , as illustrated by the three quoted here , are designed to be brief ; Labov notes that questions formulated without preparation can often be lengthy and unclear , containing spontaneous conversation phenomena such as hesitations and false starts . |
| 32 | General SVQs are designed to be open to those who are not in work . |
| 33 | The LSE guitars are designed to be stage-usable straight out of the box , and so feature cutaways and undersaddle pickups as standard . |
| 34 | They are designed to be quick to prepare and even quicker to eat and as a result are highly desirable to anyone who has a busy lifestyle . |
| 35 | This year America 's deficit and Germany 's surplus are forecast to be less than half as big , as a percentage of GNP , as they were at their peak ; Japan 's surplus may be only a quarter of its peak level . |
| 36 | The advantages to management of so doing are claimed to be that wage costs are reduced , that the relatively powerful skilled craft union is replaced by the weaker general union , and , perhaps most importantly , management can exercise much tighter control over what happens on the shop-floor . |
| 37 | New immunosuppressive agents have been used recently and are claimed to be beneficial in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease . |
| 38 | The products are claimed to be cabable of operating as a client to Novell 's NetWare SAA communications server across Novell and TCP/IP networks . |
| 39 | The men are claimed to be dishonest and immoral . |
| 40 | These are claimed to be fatigue-resistant to cope with the high amplitude vibrations that are generated by fast stunters . |
| 41 | Lightweight boots with this construction are claimed to be cooler and less sweaty in hot weather , since they breathe so much more freely than leather boots . |
| 42 | When the systems of government in Britain , the United States , most of Western Europe and much of the Commonwealth are claimed to be democratic , that rests upon a view that a form of representation of the people prevails in their governmental systems . |
| 43 | Skanform panels are claimed to be ideal for covering large wall areas in environments where surfaces are constantly cleaned and a high degree of hygiene is necessary . |
| 44 | The new U/V units from Aegean are claimed to be unique as their body casing and other parts are purpose designed and made . |
| 45 | Chill Pads , which maintain chilled products at temperature , are claimed to be longer-lasting than ice and more effective than eutectic plates . |
| 46 | The life-times of Digital Audio Tapes ( DAT ) and Exabyte tapes ( similar to home video cassettes ) are claimed to be longer , but how will they perform over ten , twenty or fifty years ? |
| 47 | Results this year are expected to be better than last . |
| 48 | Accountants are expected to be loyal first and foremost to their company , and not to their profession . |
| 49 | US companies are expected to be involved in the research , backed by £65 million of EC money . |
| 50 | One example of this is that the CEGB 's engineering costs for a new coal plant are expected to be 16 per cent higher than for the completion of the coal-fired Drax power station while for a new AGR it expects engineering costs to be 20 per cent lower than for the Heysham II prototype . |
| 51 | The first products supporting the Telnet/OLTP extensions are expected to be available in the middle of the year . |
| 52 | They work six days a week or more , on no fixed terms , with no formal protection and are expected to be available all day long including late into the evening . |
| 53 | Some development work has already been done by pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers of bottles and caps , and satisfactory child resistant containers are expected to be available for use with liquid medicines in the near future . |
| 54 | The new integrated SVQs , probably at levels II and III , are expected to be available in early autumn 1992 . |
| 55 | Full-year results for the bank are expected to be higher than last year . |
| 56 | Results for 1990 , unlike so many other retailers ' , are expected to be strong , with profits up on the '89 figure of £64 million . |
| 57 | Downstream , in light of high product stocks , industry refining margins in the USA and Europe are expected to be lower in the first quarter of 1993 than in the fourth quarter of 1992 . |
| 58 | Speeds are expected to be low — less than 20 km/h in most cases — and entrance ramps , changes in surface materials , and tree and shrub planting may be used to ensure compliance . |
| 59 | But you are expected to be competent with such material even if you feel this is not what you would eventually choose to work with . |
| 60 | Although passenger cars are expected to be 80–90 per cent ‘ cleaner ’ ( and lorries 75 — per cent ) under the plan , there obviously comes a point where , unless there is an endless expansion of the road system , so many vehicles will defeat their purpose , mobility , and still be , however ‘ clean ’ , a pollution problem . |