Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] are [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pieces that remain are sought after and valuable , and even chairs that were originally very cheap are in demand . |
| 2 | When working by hand , it is only necessary to record those values that change upon iteration ; in this text the values that change are denoted by bold print , but the other numbers are copied over for clarity . |
| 3 | Again we see that inches are lost from the areas most in need of reduction . |
| 4 | The exercises that follow are based on some of the easier freestyle manoeuvres , but the great thing about freestyle is you can invent your own tricks . |
| 5 | The suggestions that follow are based on models that are widely used in management development and leadership training . |
| 6 | Some of the points that follow are re-phrased from L. C. Taylor 's summary ( Taylor 1972 , pp. 156–7 ) , while others will be recognized as emerging from the arguments of Chapters I and 2 . |
| 7 | Willy 's synthetic abstractions which generalize and falsify are countered by her analytic and critical re-writing of Herodotus . |
| 8 | The research will investigate how the mechanisms of pre-verbal communication based on comprehension and production of gaze and pointing are related to each other and how they change between 6 and 18 months of age . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Here , wonderfully fresh fish and produce are served at every meal and a promenade stroll is the evening ritual . |
| 11 | Many archaeological sites and finds are discovered by people as they are going about their everyday work . |
| 12 | ABOVE Various types of buried features and finds are detected in different ways by magnetic surveying ( above ) and by resistivity surveying ( below ) . |
| 13 | Some detailed examples of how this worked in hosiery and tailoring are described by Nancy Grey Osterud and Jenny Morris in the collection of essays , Unequal Opportunities , edited by Angela John , in which Felicity Hunt also analyses how mechanization affected women workers in the printing and bookbinding trades . |
| 14 | Often the ability not to become tense infuriates coaches and managers who think that a sense of urgency and resolve are missing in the performance of a sportsman who seems too relaxed . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He concluded : ‘ But in my judgment the powers to seize and retain are conferred for the better performances of public functions by public bodies and can not be used to make information available to private individuals for their private purposes . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Mr. Hearn shows how even the very beasts whom we despise as unreasoning and unremembering are filled with an inarticulate sense of this dark backward and abysm of time … |
| 19 | It is the nature of the workforce participation which varies , with women 's work being largely unskilled because they are not employed in the core enterprises and internal labour market , where continuous training and re-skilling are provided to permanent employees ( Koike , 1981 ) . |
| 20 | The significance of this for the way the daring and needing are put into relation with the infinitive 's event should be obvious . |
| 21 | So , the two golden rules when buying are to go for quality and buy the largest you can afford . |
| 22 | The red flags indicate the start and finish position for beaming which when printed are converted to normal beaming and give an excellent result . |