Example sentences of "[verb] are [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the characters they met are portrayed by Minton in the book . |
| 2 | Horizontal and vertical number lines like the ones you have been using are put together to describe or plot positions on a graph . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ? |
| 5 | So teachers I do n't think are going |
| 6 | Things that you just do n't think are going to happen |
| 7 | Er I do n't think are pulling out but they , they 've suspended things , but I mean they just do n't know if they 're competing . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Almost all grants received are regarded for tax purposes as reducing expenses incurred , or reducing the cost of the development in question for the purposes of calculating capital allowances . |
| 10 | The vendor should insist that monies received are used to satisfy the oldest liabilities first . |
| 11 | The pulses received are counted by the driving software and give a direct reading of the cursor 's position on the screen . |
| 12 | On the debit side of the cash book all amounts of cash received are shown in the cash column , and all amounts banked are shown in the bank column . |
| 13 | Similarly , letters received are filed for the same purpose . |
| 14 | Foreign-debt servicing is not included in spending , though foreign loans received are included in revenue . |
| 15 | EAT are set to play a sequence of warm-up dates before Reading Festival . |
| 16 | Those Russians who choose to remain are pinning their hopes on him . |
| 17 | All recommendations in the examination booklet which are not discussed and not altered are taken as agreed . |
| 18 | Amino-acid residues that are completely conserved are shown in bold type . |
| 19 | The average bid and offer rates then calculated are known as the London interbank fixing rates and are used for reference purposes in variable interest rate loan agreements . |
| 20 | Willy 's synthetic abstractions which generalize and falsify are countered by her analytic and critical re-writing of Herodotus . |
| 21 | Doctors at the East London rehabilitation unit where he is recovering are sending him home for Christmas with his family in Chingford , Essex . |
| 22 | Details of the interviews and observations completed are given in Appendix 1 . |
| 23 | Courses for which evaluation has not yet been completed are marked provisional in this prospectus . |
| 24 | The circumstances in which this litigation arose are described in the judgment delivered by Vinelott J. on 19 December 1989 as follows : |
| 25 | Even events which we would never passivize in English because they involve only one participant and therefore can not ‘ logically ’ be passivized are expressed in passive structures in these languages if they are unpleasant , for example ‘ I was died on by my father ’ in Japanese . |
| 26 | But the characteristic of this puss forming organism is that the legions it produces are wooled off , that is they 're relatively localized . |
| 27 | The ‘ bad copies ’ the main character produces are made possible by the fact that a number of comparable codes are juxtaposed simultaneously in her mind . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | BIG savers with more than £30,000 to invest are offered 9.25% on the Select Gold Account at the Life Association of Scotland . |
| 30 | ( In this chapter , we shall adopt the convention that all numbers that change when they are smoothed are shown in bold print . ) |