Example sentences of "[coord] [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 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 .
6 Chewing and sucking are comforting for the human being and the roots of this go right back into babyhood .
7 A software development environment and multiprocessing are extra .
8 A software development environment and multiprocessing are extra .
9 The first chart is an ideal courtship , Physical intimacy and cost are low , while communication and blending are high .
10 Artists of the stature of Sendak and Keeping are visual explorers , never satisfied merely to repeat performances , even though those performances are outstanding .
11 LOOK and LISTEN are key ideas .
12 It is distinct from non-data-ink , which can be erased without loss of information : gridlines and hatching are good examples .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 Order and tell are like get but simply evoke more specific means of obtaining a result .
18 Weaving , crib-biting , biting ( general vice ) and kicking are typical vices .
19 Moving something is a reversible operation , but mixing , cutting and breaking are irreversible .
20 Updating and deleting are straightforward .
21 The ways in which honour is formed and assessed are numerous .
22 Powers of acceleration and braking are remarkable , the latter far greater than any car .
23 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 .
24 Windsurfing and waterskiing are available , and there is tennis on the public court .
25 Bathing and waterskiing are available a few minutes walk away .
26 Arguments about voluntarism and giving are apt to get confused with arguments about mixed economies of welfare and plurality of provision .
27 Most of us seek to preserve independence in matters in which the bodily functions of urinating and excreting are concerned .
28 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 .
29 An empirical orientation to change and a conditional relationship between governors and governed are long-standing characteristics of political life .
30 Duplication and bickering are endemic .
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