Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Open years are proving to be open wounds for Lloyd 's .
2 These principles are intended to be good practices that data users should comply with in order to protect the data they hold , in both their interests and those of their data subjects .
3 The November and December 1993 talks are intended to be joint meetings with our sister society , SWSHAS , the local history society .
4 The November and December 1993 talks are intended to be joint meetings with our sister society , SWSHAS , the local history society .
5 The November and December 1993 talks are intended to be joint meetings with our sister society , SWSHAS , the local history society .
6 Associations with bells or illuminated disks are rather artificial , but they are intended to be experimental versions of things that would be important in nature .
7 The reason for this , however , is that almost all the references are found in what are intended to be exhaustive lists of ways of acquiring property : heretics , for instance , are debarred from acquiring under any title including legacy and trust ; curial property received in any way ( including legacy and trust ) is taxable .
8 A friend once remarked : ‘ We are expected to be living sacrifices , but the problem is we keep crawling off the altar . ’
9 Boys are expected to be assertive go-getters , so parents tend to approve of aggression in their male offspring as ‘ manly ’ .
10 ‘ People expect this to be a male-dominated field and female accountants are expected to be dreary number-shufflers .
11 The emission standards strategy is a relatively simple strategy to apply and as such it is a strategy that many countries initially adopt in order to control pollution from large single-emission sources which are deemed to be major polluters .
12 Any proposals for road and rail investment in the South East must satisfy the government 's general criteria and will not be approved simply because they are deemed to be necessary adjuncts to the tunnel .
13 Also , domestically produced fertilizers and imports are deemed to be imperfect substitutes in production , these products being differentiated by various non-price factors including nitrogen content per tonne , packaging and advisory services .
14 Questions will be asked about what are considered to be healthy foods and why , and whether definitions are changing .
15 Claystones and siltstones containing finely dispersed coaly matter are considered to be good sources — besides many coal seams .
16 The material they contain is present in New OED entries , which are considered to be new versions of the corresponding entries from the OED .
17 Whether the increase in reported rates of sexual violence are positive or negative depends on whether they are considered to be real increases or higher rates of reporting .
18 In practice , most seats are considered to be safe seats for one or other of the two main parties — that is , the winning candidate has been returned with a majority that represents 10% or more of the votes cast .
19 Aberrant crypts that were abnormally large or showed branching , which are considered to be minute adenomas or hyperplastic crypts , could be omitted in this experiment .
20 However , it is interesting that these types of ANCAs were found at all , since they are considered to be reliable markers of primary systemic vasculitis .
21 Such experiences as love , hate , anger , sympathy , guilt , joy , sorrow and so on are considered to be abstract things as opposed to concrete objects like stones , trees or physical bodies .
22 If you do manage to overcome this one , the next problem is to simulate the migratory tendencies of moving upstream to fresher waters where they are reported to be pelagic egg-layers .
23 These linear relationships are plotted in Fig. 1 where both the consumption and saving relationships are seen to be straight lines .
24 Only exceptional damp , unusual cold , excessive rot , and decrepitude to the point of collapse are felt to be legitimate subjects of discussion .
25 The low and high-pass , L-C , ladder filters already discussed in this section are said to be constant-k filters because the product of the series and parallel impedances is independent of frequency , which fact can be expressed in terms of a constant k as For the low and high-pass filters considered , k is just .
26 The main reasons for these changes are said to be economic pressures , grant aid , and a gradual replacement of older , smaller , and more conservative farmers with younger , larger and more profit-orientated farmers .
27 The force-carrying particles exchanged between matter particles are said to be virtual particles because , unlike " real " particles , they can not be directly detected by a particle detector .
28 They are said to be exothermic compounds .
29 The Vedas are said to be direct renderings of the structure of the universe , ‘ the Universe 's DNA ’ .
30 ‘ No , we 're going to be modern lovers , Maria , our respective careers the primary reason for a certain unavoidable number of solitary nights .
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