Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] are [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Humps and rumble strips are used on residential streets to reduce speeds . |
| 2 | Press releases are printed on recycled paper and the promotion of environmental goods and services is encouraged . |
| 3 | Otherwise , the net 's addressed cells are reset at random . |
| 4 | Confirming the mood of gaiety , passing modulations are confined to sharp keys . |
| 5 | Many people suggest using corrugated card for pressing and indeed , most commercially made presses are supplied with corrugated card , but I have always had enormous difficulty when using this , finding that it leaves the imprints of stripes on the flowers and leaves . |
| 6 | As earn outs are based on future performance and are only payable in the future , they enable the purchaser to agree to a price it may not be able to afford at completion and which it will not be obliged to pay unless profits are generated . |
| 7 | A number of different counselling and support services are provided by trained and experienced counsellors , which are free of charge and strictly confidential . |
| 8 | Principal levelling stations are indicated by black circles , triangulation stations are black triangles , slope distances only are measured at stations marked by open triangles and gravity stations are indicated by large open circles . |
| 9 | Family property owning patterns are affected by widespread home ownership , so it is not impossible that in addition to ordinary feelings of affection , concern and duty , some carers may be under pressure to care , to save family wealth seeping out in expensive residential care fees . |
| 10 | ( 5 ) High amplitude propagated contractions are associated with specific physiological or behavioural events , being more frequent during the day ( 80% of occurrences ) , after meals ( 50% of occurrences ) , and upon awakening in the morning ( 33% of occurrences ) . |
| 11 | Authenticity and quality are the Bradstone trademarks ; many of its paving and waling products are taken from natural stone masters in order to reproduce the varying surfaces and edge details of quarried or weathered stone . |
| 12 | To ensure that drug prescribing costs are kept within reasonable limits . |
| 13 | Both control circuits are implemented as layered perceptrons with sigmoid nodes . |
| 14 | Woodworm holes are made by emerging adult furniture beetles which mate and lay eggs on any nearby timber that is suitably rough , or occasionally even in old holes . |
| 15 | The formal social care providing agencies are divided into various categories either by the type of agency involved , public or private or the location of care , institution or domiciliary . |
| 16 | Another alternative is an adjustable peg arrangement under which exchange rates are fixed at agreed values , but revaluations and devaluations of currencies can be undertaken under certain conditions . |
| 17 | Roping techniques are explained in clear detail . |
| 18 | Typically , derived words are listed as separate items in a dictionary . |
| 19 | State functions are connected by mathematical relationships called equations of state ( see section 3.1 ) . |
| 20 | The General Household Survey for 1980 , a nationally representative annual Government survey , is being used to determine the extent to which employed women are segregated into particular occupations . |
| 21 | Sometimes these triggering events are related to physical ageing , but are just as likely to be related to personal changes , such as a death in the family . |
| 22 | It is widely believed that the vast luminosity ( up to 10 45 ergs -1 ) arising from a very compact volume ( a light-year or less ) in quasars and Seyfert galaxies are powered by black holes with masses of the order of 10 9 M and ; , and that such black holes should reside in the nuclei of many , perhaps most galaxies as luminous as the Milky Way . |
| 23 | Nucleotide matches are given as vertical bars . |
| 24 | On the early levels the tiles are offered in obvious pairs making them easy to vanquish , but as you progress tiles are offered in odd numbers , forcing you to bring three together simultaneously . |
| 25 | Bulk minerals are needed in substantial amounts as they are used for the formation of the skeleton . |
| 26 | Housing programmes are reduced to dismal levels . |
| 27 | Although many towns and housing estates are served by live and dynamic churches , many are not , and even within a small community of 12,000 like ours in Cranham , there can still be whole estates from which only a handful of people are Christians . |
| 28 | YTS programmes are run by local managing agents — employers , FE colleges or voluntary organisations set up by LEAs — and have been monitored and partly financed by the Training Agency ; the rest of the costs of the training programmes are to be met by contributions from local employers . |
| 29 | Tour details are printed in good faith . |
| 30 | ‘ I also think men are fascinated by strong women . |