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

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1 ‘ The warders you asked to see are here , Mr Nicholson , ’ his secretary told him .
2 He argues the company has tried to monopolise the market by convincing customers that its relational database management system is effectively the computer , making it appear that all other functions and tasks the user may want to perform are bound tightly to the database — requirements that can only be met by other Oracle products .
3 What the notion is intended to emphasise are those issues to do with the how and the why of sociology 's empirical reference .
4 It is not that these things are in themselves opposed to religion , but the possessiveness and distractedness which they tend to promote are .
5 Among the high-powered list of people expected to attend are Noel Davies , chief executive of Laird 's parent company VSEL , local MPs , trade union leaders and Merseyside Development Corporation chief Chris Farrow .
6 The conditions attaching to grant are that the D S S transfer , eighty five percent of it has to be spent on the independent sector , and there are monitoring mechanisms in place whereby the government is going to assure itself that has happened .
7 Not surprisingly , the foods stressed-out women tend to crave are crunchy , such as biscuits and crisps , or tough and chewy , such as toffee .
8 In preparing notes on title points to observe are as follows : ( 1 ) Year , date and stamp duty go in the left-hand margin .
9 ‘ There are more Senior tournaments in the pipeline , but what I want to see are more National Open championships .
10 So far all he has received are 100 free shares .
11 By contrast , those still stone free nine months or more after dissolution treatment has stopped are genuinely likely to have had complete gall stone dissolution .
12 When the Equal Opportunities Commission , in its equality agenda , describes child care facilities as meagre in the extreme compared with the facilities that are available in the rest of Europe , when we know that the women in work to whom the Minister has referred are often forced into part-time work because of inadequate child care arrangements and when we bear in mind his entirely complacent answer , is not it a good thing that a Labour Government are coming who will ensure that child care provision is expanded ?
13 The golden rules in using any powered machinery , including balers , to prevent becoming trapped are :
14 ‘ the simple facts which the court has to find are whether the defendant 's conduct in fact prevented the police from carrying out their duty , or made it more difficult for them to do so , and whether the defendant intended that conduct to prevent the police from carrying out their duty or to make it more difficult to do so . ’
15 The things we really want to know are too difficult for straightforward intuition ; we must therefore ask our informants questions that they CAN answer reliably and accurately .
16 Who suffer the discomforts of living in a longhouse near the headwaters of the Amazon when versions of what you want to know are available for observation just down the road ?
17 So , basically , I want to know are they taken from erm a team which is already in the health service , or are they new posts funded , and funded by whom , bearing in mind the constant complaints we get from the health authority about lack of funds ?
18 The sort of agreements which the legislation is designed to catch are precisely the same as those which the UK legislation is aimed at , namely price fixing , market sharing , restrictions on supply , etc .
19 The formalities required before a company can commence trading are relatively straightforward .
20 Eight of the properties Citalia has secured are in an old farmhouse on the estate about two miles away from the castle .
21 ’ Posi , ’ I said carefully , ’ give me a list of what the old data packages you found says are the special powers of the Ardakkeans .
22 Nor will he be able to take a sabbatical to formulate the complex structures of meaning lodged deep in the empirical material , which Lévi-Strauss ( 1976 : 80 ) has argued are capable of linking together symbolic and metaphoric programmes to ‘ reveal properties not immediately accessible to the ( empirical ) observation ’ .
23 I agree that all the facts which my hon. Friend the Member for Beaconsfield ( Mr. Smith ) has said are contained in the 1991 paper are true .
24 This is fact is a debate about personal freedom the freedom of our tenants to choose the quite legal activities that take place on their farms for whatever we may think about the merits and de-merits of angling or shooting fox hunting , these are activities that Parliament has decided are permissible .
25 Amongst the recommendations the Law Society has made are : —
26 The only luxuries she has had are a holiday in America , a new car and a few home improvements .
27 Many of the issues I want to discuss are equally applicable to paper as to electronic information systems , although the need to write archival concerns into the design and use of the latter at an early stage give them greater urgency .
28 Deposits laid down during the rifting phase are termed synrift sediments while those laid down on the margin once continental separation has occurred are termed postrift sediments .
29 The dk'tronics unit needs to be supplied with the keys engraved or moulded , stick-on labels that the customer has to apply are not really on .
30 And what he wants to exorcise are his bad feelings about the man who brung him up .
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