Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] are [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | with things to colour or do are available at the back of the church and in the cry room . |
| 2 | with things to colour or do are available at the back of the church and in the cry room . |
| 3 | Lots of time spent reading light novels , listening to music , watching the television or talking are helpful , as is the ability ( perhaps aided by a drink or a pill ) to fall asleep when these more active anodyne activities come to a halt . |
| 4 | These two examples of successful problem-solving when dozing or dreaming are typical only in that a feeling of certainty accompanied them — what is unusual is that these were realistic solutions . |
| 5 | Other issues that develop are concerned with caring people who wish to help relatives and friends express their grief . |
| 6 | The only rules that matter are practical ones that respect local sensitivities . |
| 7 | In a seminar last week at CERN , Rubbia presented five events , or collisions , in which the particles that emerge are consistent with what is expected for a particular mode of decay of the particle . |
| 8 | It 's important that treads are level from front to back ; although a very slight slope forwards of about ⅛″ for a 12″ deep tread , will help to throw off water , especially on wooden steps which are more slippery . |
| 9 | It is firmly established , and when there is a tendency to ‘ darkening ’ of initial [ l ] , the conditions that apply are linguistic and not social : relatively ‘ dark ’ [ l ] occurs mainly before relatively retracted vowels . |
| 10 | Most problems that arise are common to both types . |
| 11 | All things that exist are particular and singular . |
| 12 | The events that follow are spectacular : they have been graphically described by A. N. Bragg in his book Gnomes of the Night : the Spadefoot Toads , ( Univ . |
| 13 | The examples that follow are typical of the sort of work that BGS undertakes overseas , both in scope and in direction . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Chewing and sucking are comforting for the human being and the roots of this go right back into babyhood . |
| 16 | A software development environment and multiprocessing are extra . |
| 17 | A software development environment and multiprocessing are extra . |
| 18 | The first chart is an ideal courtship , Physical intimacy and cost are low , while communication and blending are high . |
| 19 | Artists of the stature of Sendak and Keeping are visual explorers , never satisfied merely to repeat performances , even though those performances are outstanding . |
| 20 | LOOK and LISTEN are key ideas . |
| 21 | It is distinct from non-data-ink , which can be erased without loss of information : gridlines and hatching are good examples . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Poverty and overcrowding are characteristic of the greater part of the Canning Town and Silvertown areas , which make up what is perhaps the largest part of unbroken depression in East London . |
| 24 | Manualists , by contrast , believe that signing and fingerspelling are essential tools in the learning process and that lipreading and speech are , in any case , beyond the capacity of the majority of deaf and dumb children . |
| 25 | Oralists believe that every deaf child of normal intelligence can learn lipreading and speech , and that signing and fingerspelling are harmful to a child 's learning process . |
| 26 | Order and tell are like get but simply evoke more specific means of obtaining a result . |
| 27 | Weaving , crib-biting , biting ( general vice ) and kicking are typical vices . |
| 28 | Moving something is a reversible operation , but mixing , cutting and breaking are irreversible . |
| 29 | Updating and deleting are straightforward . |
| 30 | The ways in which honour is formed and assessed are numerous . |