Example sentences of "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 | Managers , he notes , are taught to be tough , which can mean they sometimes take a decision regardless of its ethical consequences . |
| 5 | As I hope to demonstrate later , by far the largest majority of infants are biased towards being social rather than antisocial . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | These recipes are intended to be unadulterated bliss . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The November and December 1993 talks are intended to be joint meetings with our sister society , SWSHAS , the local history society . |
| 10 | The November and December 1993 talks are intended to be joint meetings with our sister society , SWSHAS , the local history society . |
| 11 | The November and December 1993 talks are intended to be joint meetings with our sister society , SWSHAS , the local history society . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Practice Notes are intended to be persuasive , rather than prescriptive , and have a lower level of authority than Statements of Auditing Standards . |
| 16 | Nowadays the victims are blamed for being vulnerable . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | Bernstock & Speirs ' hats are designed to be easy to wear . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The capacitive reactances are designed to be low over the operating range of frequencies compared with any incidental shunting capacitive reactance or resistance . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Many modern mains transformers are designed to be versatile , but this versatility can ( and does ) cause a certain amount of confusion . |
| 23 | Being keen-sighted created , we are designed to be alert during the day and to sleep through the dark hours . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It has a range of public rooms all of which are designed to be light and airy . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They are designed to be positive in their orientation , emphasizing what pupils ‘ know , understand and can do ’ . |
| 28 | All questions , as illustrated by the three quoted here , are designed to be brief ; Labov notes that questions formulated without preparation can often be lengthy and unclear , containing spontaneous conversation phenomena such as hesitations and false starts . |
| 29 | General SVQs are designed to be open to those who are not in work . |
| 30 | The LSE guitars are designed to be stage-usable straight out of the box , and so feature cutaways and undersaddle pickups as standard . |