Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] are [adj] [prep] " 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 | Other issues that develop are concerned with caring people who wish to help relatives and friends express their grief . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Most problems that arise are common to both types . |
| 7 | The examples that follow are typical of the sort of work that BGS undertakes overseas , both in scope and in direction . |
| 8 | Chewing and sucking are comforting for the human being and the roots of this go right back into babyhood . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The same cubes , padded and covered are fine for occasional seating . |
| 14 | There are notices in departmental rooms regarding this matter and I would remind you that such activities as copying are illegal without a licence . |
| 15 | One view is that it is the result of government parsimony towards prison staff ; the other is that such staff shortages as occur are due to the arcane system of rigid restrictive practices developed by the Prison Officers ' Association ( POA ) . |
| 16 | Artificial amorphous PHB granules prepared as described are stable in aqueous suspension at 30 °C for at least 6 months . |