Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] are " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ( 12 ) The histories of cease and quit are less varied but the senses found for them in earlier times help explain some of the semantic differences that will be described below . |
| 2 | He is concerned that publicity over Paul 's death has made the Capital seem unsafe — when in fact the chances of being attacked and hurt are small . |
| 3 | McCloskey is right , up to a point , in claiming that in cases such as these we have changed the concept : ‘ What we are ascribing and according are not rights in the ordinary sense of rights ’ ( 1975 : 416 ) . |
| 4 | Parents who have watched their children grow and develop are just as likely to have insights into the development of their child as the teacher who has taught for a couple of years . |
| 5 | He agrees that tarot are the ‘ devil 's picture cards ’ and speaks of the time he was robbed of his powers just before his conversion . |
| 6 | with things to colour or do are available at the back of the church and in the cry room . |
| 7 | with things to colour or do are available at the back of the church and in the cry room . |
| 8 | The role of the tutor is that of trying to anticipate if the strategies selected or suggested are a realistic means of implementation . |
| 9 | The four skills of reading , writing , listening and speaking are well-practised in a wide variety of tasks , including scanning , summarizing , categorizing , building definitions , and comprehension . |
| 10 | For most of our students , the main objective is to be able to communicate confidently in the language of their choice , so practice in listening and speaking are our first priorities . |
| 11 | Changes over time to things that are seen and heard are powerful forms of stimulation for young infants , and the main purpose of the research is to explore systematically infants ' ability to detect and respond to such change . |
| 12 | Beginning , Resourcing , Believing and Remembering are four stages in the ‘ States of Man ’ , the imaginative brief set for the 1991 Smirnoff UK Fashion Awards which take place in June as part of a week of college fashion shows . |
| 13 | Imagining and dreaming are very powerful processes . |
| 14 | The benefits of the balancing , bouncing and clambering are that your body is relaxed instead of recital-rigid and the voice comes over in a strong way . |
| 15 | Just as I said they just phoned , Kenny just phoned and said are you coming horseracing ? |
| 16 | LEFT Experiments to investigate how pottery was made and fired are frequently carried out . |
| 17 | Artificial amorphous PHB granules prepared as described are stable in aqueous suspension at 30 °C for at least 6 months . |
| 18 | Ferguson can not afford to wait if United are to end their long wait for the League title this season . |
| 19 | To set the problem in more concrete terms , we must seek an answer to the question as to why make and have are followed by the bare infinitive , while cause , occasion , get and all the other causatives are construed with to infinitives . |
| 20 | In the presence of an overt direct object , hide and conceal are cognitive synonyms — John hid the money is equivalent to John concealed the money but hide is not replaceable by conceal in , for instance , Go and hide ! |
| 21 | Ryle points out that in being impressed by the certainty of the seen and the known , one is assuming that seeing and knowing are analogous with looking and thinking , so that it becomes a problem how they escape the fallibility of these operations ; he invites us to shift ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to the category of achievement verbs such as ‘ find ’ and ‘ cure ’ , which are related to ‘ seek ‘ and ‘ treat ’ as ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to ‘ look ’ and ‘ think ’ , but do not tempt us to suppose that there are infallible methods of discovering lost articles or restoring to health . |
| 22 | Seeing and observing are two completely different things . |
| 23 | Swimming , painting , climbing , dancing , singing and acting are just some of the activities even young children are trying out . |
| 24 | Show some ability to recognise when planning , drafting , redrafting and revising are appropriate and to carry out these processes either on paper or on a computer screen . |
| 25 | The extraordinary times in which the German artist Max Beckmann ( 1844–1950 ) lived and worked are reflected on his vibrant canvases to a degree arguably unequalled by his contemporaries . |
| 26 | The ways in which honour is formed and assessed are numerous . |
| 27 | The Hindu-Balinese calendar is annually calibrated by the astronomer-priests according to lunar and stellar relationships , so that the rites of fasting and planting , rejoicing and reaping , weeping and cremating are synchronized with the actual bio-rhythmic pulse of the island . |
| 28 | Make and have are at the top of the binding hierarchy and take the " highly non-verbal " bare infinitive ; order is lower on the scale and takes the to infinitive ; next comes insist , which is followed by a subordinate clause containing a finite subjunctive form , and then think , construed with a subordinate clause in the indicative . |
| 29 | No , not pins , erm veers and veers are n't a problem . |
| 30 | Women trapped at home sewing and gluing and stapling are at the dustbin end of dreadful employment practices . |