Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] are " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not that these things are in themselves opposed to religion , but the possessiveness and distractedness which they tend to promote are . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly , the foods stressed-out women tend to crave are crunchy , such as biscuits and crisps , or tough and chewy , such as toffee . |
| 3 | ‘ There are more Senior tournaments in the pipeline , but what I want to see are more National Open championships . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is surprising how many of the things that you want to draw are symmetrical in this way . |
| 9 | Any presenters or other Radio I producers who want to contribute are welcome . |
| 10 | Realising that if any modules which they want to read are offline , then this will result in a delay to all modules requested at the same time while those offline are brought back online . |
| 11 | Some of the profits made from BT telephones in hospitals , which Labour Members appear to think are excessive , can be recouped by the hospital and used to benefit patients . |
| 12 | This is a very useful facility because many of the so called different styles that we want to knit are often based on one of the classic shapes . |
| 13 | The freight charges vessels expect to earn are negotiated on the basis of a system called ‘ Worldscale ’ , published twice a year in London and New York . |
| 14 | We may find that some of the ideas we want to test are very difficult ones ; certainly , in using this particular example of baptism , we are not taking the easiest idea ever put forward . |
| 15 | Substantive matters such as hours of work , overtime and shift working are covered by complex legislation that gives rise to legal battles over interpretation . |
| 16 | The ones you tend to remember are the worse ones , those that are particularly cruel . |
| 17 | Among the questions which we hope to answer are the following : 1 . |
| 18 | Many of the issues that women seek to raise are not in the interests of men . |
| 19 | The kind of songs I sit there and enjoy singing are like ‘ Eternal Flame ’ , songs that have rich melodies . ’ |
| 20 | The fry of livebearers and the eggs of any fish which happen to spawn are quickly devoured by the other fish — often including the parents , which see them as a meal . |
| 21 | ‘ The only papers we seem to keep are bills , and they 're for the accountant , ’ Emily said . |
| 22 | I 'm 17 , an incurable romantic and I 'm dying for cheery letters ( all I ever seem to get are bank statements ) Quick ! |
| 23 | The buffalo and elk hide are decorated with red cloth and beads , sewn with a sinew . |
| 24 | All I get supplied are empty bottles and hundreds of boxes of bandages . ’ |
| 25 | The basic mechanisms which utilize splitting are therefore always to be understood as a division in the subject as well as the object . |
| 26 | Whether formal or informal , these get togethers are the way that most organizations , particularly the large ones , function . |
| 27 | The relational variety is the most important , and the relations that typically get expressed are those between : ( i ) speaker and referent ( e.g. referent honorifics ) ( ii ) speaker and addressee ( e.g. addressee honorifics ) ( iii ) speaker and bystander ( e.g. bystander or audience honorifics ) ( iv ) speaker and setting ( e.g. formality levels ) We can talk of honorifics just where the relation in ( i ) -(iii) concerns relative rank or respect ; but there are many other qualities of relationship that may be grammaticalized , e.g. kinship relations , totemic relations , clan membership , etc. , as made available by the relevant social system . |
| 28 | It is only after listening again to my tape-recording of our meeting that I hear him eventually say in his educated , upper-class Dublin accent : ‘ Well , over 90 per cent of people who get raped are not injured in that rape . ’ |
| 29 | Skills such as skimming , scanning and note taking are important here and it will be useful in planning the project and in the report , if these information skills are clearly linked to the use of the microcomputer . |
| 30 | Smokers with disease of the leg arteries , called peripheral vascular disease ( PVD ) , who ignore the warning of early symptoms and continue to smoke are more likely to develop gangrene of a leg [ 1,2 ] . |