Example sentences of "[vb past] are " in BNC.
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| 31 | Rotherham has an Asian presence , but most of the places I visited are the old , white , axis of the English working class , immunised from the input of England 's new nationalities . |
| 32 | It takes time for the validity or fruitfulness of any academic development to become clear , and too rapid a response to intellectual fashions could leave institutions with an embarrassing residue of dubious courses , which once installed are difficult to dislodge . |
| 33 | For all they either painted are , |
| 34 | Both forests we studied are similar in structure , composition and site quality ( Table 1 and refs 14–16 ) . |
| 35 | Here in Hertfordshire we have a fire and rescue service , that we can quite rightly be as proud of as the fire fighters we surveyed are . |
| 36 | All the staff have remained the same , but the managers I interviewed are new to this particular store . |
| 37 | LEEDS UNITED are turning on the heat to ensure David Batty makes a Christmas comeback . |
| 38 | MANCHESTER United are being backed to win £1 million for punters , as a rush of money yesterday saw their odds shorten to 6-4 for the Premier League title . |
| 39 | CAMBRIDGE UNITED are today set to appoint Ian Atkins as their new manager . |
| 40 | MANCHESTER UNITED are still confident they can land David Hirst . |
| 41 | HARTLEPOOL United are not prepared to give up their fight for a Third Division promotion play-off place . |
| 42 | NEWCASTLE United are looking to their supporters to ease their mounting financial burden . |
| 43 | MAIDSTONE United are set to fold today just three years after being elected into the Football League . |
| 44 | HARTLEPOOL United are not having the best of luck with strikers . |
| 45 | Nearly all the other prints we lifted are Benyon 's , naturally . |
| 46 | It follows from this that signifier and signified are effectively inseparable , like the two sides of a single sheet of paper . |
| 47 | Of course the question in the EPQ does not refer solely to driving and the population they sampled are unlikely to be driving particularly regularly . |
| 48 | The little men and women Margaret Thatcher admired are squeezed until the pips squeak . |
| 49 | Why and how this happened are the more difficult questions . |
| 50 | His blind hands fount the still-open door and then there was George very , close , whispering : ‘ Harry what happened are you all right ? ’ |
| 51 | Twelve year old Emma Butler died during a kickabout after a five a side football match … she 'd been watching her younger brother , Matthew , play in a tournament organised by the St Edmunds Football Club at the European School in Abingdon … details of what exactly happened are still sketchy … but it 's believed a hockey goal post which was leaning against a hut fell down crushing Emmas chest … |
| 52 | Graham Townsend was alone in his shop at three fifteen this afternoon … details of what happened are sketchy … but he was stabbed several times in the chest by one of three youths who were trying to steal jewellery … they ran off … and Mr Townsend called an ambulance … a neighbour came to his aid . |
| 53 | The developments which followed are too recent and perhaps too elaborate to belong in this essentially historical account of the discovery of drugs . |
| 54 | I am delighted to say that both previous Prime Ministers under whom I served are avid and enthusiastic collectors of that porcelain . |
| 55 | And the benefits that he discovered are now available to us . |
| 56 | Although the history of Scotmid is very much of local interest , the carriages they collected are of national importance . |
| 57 | We have no idea what people are meant are meant to be doing when they 're voting , this was a problem I raised are people meant to be expressing their interest , are people meant to be voting like members of a jury ? |
| 58 | The two who escaped are in hospital . |
| 59 | Churches which escaped are likely to have paid for the privilege : the raiders had threatened to destroy Christ Church in 994 unless they were given a sum promised them by Archbishop Sigeric . |
| 60 | Some of the people who signed are not our supporters , but Donald said who he was . ’ |