Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Having been rare for many years doubles are now much more widely available and many are proving to be good garden plants .
2 Recent introductions from America such as N. Charlene Strawn and N. Texas Dawn are proving to be promising and therefore becoming popular .
3 Open years are proving to be open wounds for Lloyd 's .
4 The simplicity and flexibility of the notation of DC are recognized to be two of its strengths .
5 Effectively , they are competing to be last .
6 Barnes , 30 , added : ‘ I knew fairly soon that I was out of the Test match and now I am struggling to be fit for the Taranaki game on Wednesday .
7 Managers , he notes , are taught to be tough , which can mean they sometimes take a decision regardless of its ethical consequences .
8 As I hope to demonstrate later , by far the largest majority of infants are biased towards being social rather than antisocial .
9 These ‘ developmental sequences ’ are intended to be hierarchical : ‘ each sequence of steps in different domains of development progresses towards and overlaps with National Curriculum Attainment Targets ’ ( Webster and Webster 1990 : 9 ) .
10 These recipes are intended to be unadulterated bliss .
11 These principles are intended to be good practices that data users should comply with in order to protect the data they hold , in both their interests and those of their data subjects .
12 The November and December 1993 talks are intended to be joint meetings with our sister society , SWSHAS , the local history society .
13 The November and December 1993 talks are intended to be joint meetings with our sister society , SWSHAS , the local history society .
14 The November and December 1993 talks are intended to be joint meetings with our sister society , SWSHAS , the local history society .
15 Legal aid is not generally available for tribunals , they are intended to be cheap and both sides are clearly expected to bear their own costs .
16 Associations with bells or illuminated disks are rather artificial , but they are intended to be experimental versions of things that would be important in nature .
17 The reason for this , however , is that almost all the references are found in what are intended to be exhaustive lists of ways of acquiring property : heretics , for instance , are debarred from acquiring under any title including legacy and trust ; curial property received in any way ( including legacy and trust ) is taxable .
18 Practice Notes are intended to be persuasive , rather than prescriptive , and have a lower level of authority than Statements of Auditing Standards .
19 Nowadays the victims are blamed for being vulnerable .
20 Bright states in his introduction that the " audience is seen as academic and professional , but interdisciplinary ; thus articles are designed to be intelligible and useful to people in related disciplines " ( Vol.1 , p. ix ) .
21 Bernstock & Speirs ' hats are designed to be easy to wear .
22 Many codecs already developed are designed to be upgradeable when such standards become widely accepted and it is therefore likely that within a few years dial-up videoconferencing will be possible between a wide range of different proprietary systems .
23 The capacitive reactances are designed to be low over the operating range of frequencies compared with any incidental shunting capacitive reactance or resistance .
24 More problematic for the school as a whole are those initiatives that are designed to be cross-curricular and pervasive : language across the curriculum , maths across the curriculum , computing across the curriculum .
25 Many modern mains transformers are designed to be versatile , but this versatility can ( and does ) cause a certain amount of confusion .
26 Being keen-sighted created , we are designed to be alert during the day and to sleep through the dark hours .
27 They are designed to be equivalent in standard to existing qualifications , such as those of the RSA and CGLI , and to replace them in Scotland .
28 It has a range of public rooms all of which are designed to be light and airy .
29 They are designed to be portable and enable herdsmen and hunters to move around the countryside in search of new pastures for their camels , sheep and yak .
30 They are designed to be positive in their orientation , emphasizing what pupils ‘ know , understand and can do ’ .
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