Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] are " in BNC.

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1 Ideally the pressure groups formed are not to be organized functionally around ‘ clienthood ’ or ‘ patienthood ’ but around identification of interests which consumers in general feel to be appropriate .
2 Some of the herbs listed are found in most countries — often taken by mankind as they migrated all over the world , showing that man considered them as important .
3 The range of topics covered and the nature of the professional development activities undertaken are detailed in 2.2.2 .
4 The group of works in which large , often black , forms predominate are perhaps less successful .
5 Nowadays there is little real distinction between Proof and Proof before Answer and the greatest majority of cases heard are Proofs before Answer .
6 Except for cases of incurably ill pets , where owner and vet agree that euthanasia is best , the reasons given are as follows , in order of frequency : a ) The client wants the vet to agree that the animal is terminally ill/suffering/too old to treat .
7 The tribunal will also have considerable discretion in deciding whether or not the reasons given are adequate .
8 The reasons given are as follows .
9 The most common reasons given are that although the complaint is within scope , there is no realistic remedy , or there is no real evidence of the complaint being well-founded .
10 When a prison officer requests a gun the reasons given are closely scrutinised , ’ he said .
11 First , the earliest investment projects undertaken are likely to be the most profitable , i.e. offering the highest expected yearly returns ( R ) , and therefore having the highest marginal efficiencies of investment ( i ) .
12 Some sites have tried to build an entire secure environment for the LIFESPAN Manager , such that all the operations foreseen are provided from within a set of command procedures to which the LIFESPAN Manager is tied .
13 Fleshy fruits of the type birds eat are often thought of as primitive in many features , that is to say that they share more characters with ancestral flowering plant fruits than do fruits with wind-dispersed seeds .
14 Mutations that affect corepressor binding are of two types .
15 The effects of exposure to light are difficult to accelerate in the laboratory .
16 Is not the most significant point about that list the fact that all the authorities listed are Labour controlled ?
17 The questions which give rise to debate are rarely those which later have to be decided by the courts .
18 ‘ The last two groups to perform are from Donegal and Leitrim .
19 Most employers also take the precaution of stating that the illustrations given are not exhaustive .
20 In nineteen eighty six treat people as if their labour is worth nothing you know those men have given their lives to the quarry industry and there 's no doubt that there is money to be made from slate at the moment and people are people that have the money to invest are making a lot of money okay they 're inves they 're risking the money but er people are risking their lives as well and giving their lives .
21 Many of the definitions given are very general , for example that of Scriven : ‘ evaluation attempts to answer certain types of questions about certain entities ’ .
22 Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are .
23 He has also continued to write , producing one work of fiction , Haroun and the Sea of Stories , and a collection of essays and other pieces , Imaginary Homelands , which Michael Foot argued are fit to stand alongside some of the very best work in defence of the artist 's right to free expression .
24 The programmes undertaken are of two main types , the one country-specific , the other regional in emphasis .
25 LEFT , Examining the efficiency and quality of output by dust-press dishmaking are , left to right , Clive Bourne , Dave Riley , Simon Lovatt and Mike Shufflebotham .
26 Unless otherwise specified , the futures contracts reported are for the USA .
27 This action plan makes it evident that many of the organisational improvements recommended are in fact features synonymous with an ‘ openly run ’ school with an ‘ open ’ form of decision-making .
28 We have already looked at the movement of settlements , changes in plan and form etc. in the landscape , but nevertheless for most of today 's settlements the criteria which applied when the settlement originated are no longer relevant .
29 Items of particular relevance to futures trading are as follows : ( 1 ) A statement of the customer 's investment objectives ( unless included in a separate document ) : If futures trading is to be undertaken otherwise than for purely hedging purposes , it would be necessary to document that the customer 's investment objectives were speculative .
30 Hard work , thrift , and the enjoyment of income earned are the hallmark of the " protestant work ethic " that is still characteristic of many western societies .
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