Example sentences of "and are [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However because ore is a noun and are is a verb , this error would most likely be spotted by the syntactic analysis , because ore would not fit into the same word position as are in the sentence . |
| 2 | Kitzbuehel and Are , his earlier successes , were hardly that last season : Kitzbuehel was truncated because of poor snow and Are 's fine course was reduced to mashed potato by wind and rain . |
| 3 | Human rights organisations maintain that the men have been wrongly convicted and are being victimised for being members of the leading opposition political party . |
| 4 | Hospitals are developing computer systems which are often not compatible with one another and are being used as little more than expensive word processors . |
| 5 | The Kurds have been and are being massacred , and are dying of neglect — our neglect — by the tens of thousands because they tried to escape that massacre , which we did nothing to prevent . |
| 6 | The Christian Democrats got only 38.7% of the vote , against 45.1% four years ago , and are being booted out of the government for the first time since the state was founded 45 years ago . |
| 7 | Riblets have been tested by Nasa and are being tested on Boeing and Airbus aircraft . |
| 8 | It is ironic that early in this century the ubiquitous ranchbred Hereford of the western USA became too small in the bone and Beef Shorthorns were imported from Scotland to boost the Hereford 's size , whereas in the second half of the century the American Herefords have become much taller than those in Britain and are being re-imported to boost the height of the native herds . |
| 9 | The mechanisms of control and the latitude which such schools would have are still unclear and are being studied by the Ministry of Education . |
| 10 | ‘ Information should be collected as to the goings-on in parts of Ulster of organisations which lately have been supplied with arms and are being detailed for eventualities . ’ |
| 11 | Improvements in the quality of the air we breathe have been achieved and are being achieved all the time particularly in respect of those pollutants either proven or suspected of causing physical environmental harm , especially to people . |
| 12 | Dust filters and biological air filters appear to be capable of achieving considerable success in removing odours but can be fairly expensive , and new developments are taking place all the time , for example compost soil filters have been developed mainly in Germany and are being investigated by Warren Springs Laboratory . |
| 13 | But elements of the strategy , which were practised before illuminative evaluation as a structured approach to evaluation was contemplated , are more manageable and are being attempted . |
| 14 | They all have been , and are being , exploited by humans and may join the ranks of the extinct if steps are not taken to protect them . |
| 15 | Shafts are being manufactured to closer tolerances than ever before and are being produced in ever widening ranges to meet the differences among players . |
| 16 | They seem to have adapted well to Madeira and are being cared for by a specialist . |
| 17 | ‘ We are getting substantial rent-free periods and are being offered large capital contributions ’ — a sum paid by the landlord to the tenant , usually for shopfitting to entice customers into the mall or high street . |
| 18 | Very substantial improvements have been identified and are being realised but nothing stands still . |
| 19 | The consequences of this activity will be far-reaching and are being watched by other countries with interest , since the Panel is the first creation of its kind in the world . |
| 20 | Many specially produced Bibles and study guides have been produced and are being bought ( and hopefully read . ) |
| 21 | Once you have covered the mirror with the glass you may well find that several pieces of fluff have been trapped between the two , and are being magnified by both the mirror and the covering glass . |
| 22 | Many of the political appointees who will find themselves ‘ displaced persons ’ tomorrow arrived in Washington DC as ambitious thirtysomethings and are being tossed-out over-the-hill in their late forties and early fifties . |
| 23 | Half a million application forms have been printed and are being sent all around the country , via over 1,000 blubs , nearly 3,000 schools and through the RFU youth development officers . |
| 24 | Many toxins , such as snake venoms , operate through the victim 's nervous system and are being used in the treatment of human nervous disorders . |
| 25 | More and more teachers in training are at least receiving an introduction to special needs ; are being encouraged to seek out information on special needs policy and practice in the schools in which they are doing their teaching practice , and are being introduced to a variety of approaches to meeting their needs . |
| 26 | Working guidelines concerning the imprisonment or harassment of people due to their sexuality were agreed at an IEC meeting in December and are being incorporated into the Mandate — Ed . |
| 27 | It was then appropriate to show how ‘ … from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been , and are being evolved ’ . |
| 28 | Autodesk Inc , Sausalito , California has decided that IBM Corp 's Cadam Inc computer-aided design software base is ripe for plundering , and is developing two Cadam-emulation products , Aemulus and Aemulus(mf) , which are now in alpha test : the products , which offer a Cadam-like user interface and bi-directional compatibility with Cadam files , are also compatible with AutoCAD Release 12 ; Aemulus is an AutoCAD Development System application with a Cadam-like graphics interface and command set and enables customers to edit existing Cadam models or create new Cadam-compatible models on the desktop ; Aemulus(mf) is a mainframe-resident program that enables customers to quickly and completely convert Cadam two-dimensional Interactive Drawing files to DXF files or vice versa ; both are set for shipment in May 1993 but pricing has not yet been decided ; the company also says that it is expanding its product line beyond the drafting portion of the design spectrum it has traditionally occupied to cover the entire spectrum from conceptualisation to manufacturing , and that as a first step its three top-selling drafting and design packages , AutoCAD , Generic CADD and AutoSketch , have been brought together under one organisational umbrella , and are being precisely defined and clarified in terms of their relationship to each other ; development is under way to enable the three products to work together and share files across networks . |
| 29 | They are coming under attack from outside and are being undermined from within by economic and social disintegration . |
| 30 | Many of the issues you raise are important , and are being addressed . |